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One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 80p 1987 –10 Silver Jubilee Conference College of Physicians and Surgeons – 9 December 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 1 1987 –11 International Year of Shelter for the Homeless – 15 December 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 3
On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah ( Arabic: محمد الدرة, romanized : Muḥammad ad-Durra) was killed in the Gaza Strip during widespread protests and riots across the Palestinian territories against Israeli military occupation. Jamal al-Durrah and his son Muhammad were filmed by ...
Since then numerous stamps have been issued carrying his portrait including his 50 death anniversary in 1998 and 125 years of his birth in 2001. Since the 1960s, the government has featured a large number of both local and foreign personalities including Allama Mohammad Iqbal , Mirza Ghalib , Kemal Atatürk , Shah of Iran , Maria Montessori ...
A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Betty Ford was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in the East Room of the White House. Ford, who died in 2011, was an advocate for ...
Idi Amin Dada Oumee ( / ˈiːdi ɑːˈmiːn, ˈɪdi -/ ⓘ, UK also /- æˈmiːn /; 30 May 1928 [ 1] – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history.
Betsy Ross. Elizabeth Griscom Ross (née Griscom; [ 1] January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, [ 1] was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 [ 2] with making the second official U.S. flag, [ 3] accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag.
Heinrich Hoffmann (12 September 1885 – 16 December 1957) was Adolf Hitler 's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle. Hoffmann's photographs were a significant part of Hitler's propaganda campaign to present himself and the Nazi Party as a significant mass phenomenon.
In 2005, after 111 years of producing American postage stamps, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ended its involvement with the postal service. On April 12, 2007, the Forever stamp went on sale for 41 cents, and is good for mailing one-ounce First-Class letters anytime in the future—regardless of price changes.