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The United States Postal Service issued a 34-cent stamp on the 1 September 2001 at the annual Islamic Society of North America's convention in Des Plaines, Illinois.It features gold Arabic calligraphy on a lapis background that commemorates two of the most important Muslim festivals: Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan and Eid al-Adha, at the end of the pilgrimage to ...
This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great Britain. This list should be consistent with printed publications, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).
Shaukat Ali Khan was born in 1873 into a wealthy family with roots in the city of Najibabad in what is today Uttar Pradesh in India; other than that little is known about his family background. [2] He was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University. He was extremely fond of playing cricket, captaining the university team.
The postal service of Iraq proper began with the British mandate granted by the League of Nations in 1920. The first stamps of Iraq were a definitive series that appeared in 1923; the set of 12 included eight different designs depicting scenes and images from ancient history and the present day. They were denominated in annas and rupees ...
Known for. Design of Indian National Flag. Spouse. Rukminamma. Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876 [ 1][ 2] 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter. He was the designer of the flag on which the initial Indian National Flag was based. [ 3] He was also a lecturer, author, geologist, educationalist, agriculturist, and a polyglot. [ 4][ 5]
The Afghan stamps of the 1930s and 1940s are rather plain affairs, mostly typographed, with large blank spaces in the design. The definitive series of 1951 was finely engraved by Waterlow and Sons, several featuring portraits of Mohammed Zahir Shah . A large number of Afghan stamps appeared in the 1960s.
Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).
4 January: Installation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Putra. 17 April: Installation of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan Tuanku Munawir. 28 June: Coronation of the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Salahuddin. 17 July: Coronation of the Sultan of Kelantan Sultan Yahya Petra.