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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 ...
One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 3 1987 –14 Radio Pakistan New Concept of Broadcasting – 31 December 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 80p 1988. 1988 – 1 Birth Centenary of Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta – 7 January 1988; 1988 – 2 World Leprosy Day – 31 January 1988
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
A postman collecting mail for delivery. The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. [ 1] A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as a government ...
Converts to Islam. According to The Jerusalem Post, in the United Kingdom and France, up to 100,000 people converted in the last decade in each country. [ 1] According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Germany has up to 4,000 a year. [ 2] According to The Guardian, about 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, mostly women.
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday rolled out its latest special edition postage stamps, paying homage to a tradition with global roots that has evolved over centuries to become a universal symbol ...
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 ...
Errors include use of the wrong colors, wrong denominations, missing parts of the design, misplaced or inverted design elements, etc. The term "error" is typically reserved for obvious failures in the production process that (potentially) replicate over many stamps, while unique errors or poor quality are known as "freaks" or "oddities".