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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age , during the rule of Sargon of Akkad , and successive empires have established and operated a ...

  3. Pingali Venkayya - Wikipedia

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    A postage stamp to commemorate Venkayya and the first flag was issued in 2009. [2] The Vijayawada station of All India Radio was named after him in 2014. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2012, his name was proposed for a posthumous Bharat Ratna though there has been no response from the central government on the proposal.

  4. Islamic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy. [ 2][ 3] It is known in Arabic as khatt Arabi ( خط عربي ), which translates into Arabic line, design, or construction. [ 4]

  5. Postage stamp - Wikipedia

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    3. Denomination. 4. Country name. A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the face or address-side of any item of mail —an envelope or other ...

  6. Errors, freaks, and oddities - Wikipedia

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    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".

  7. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of postage stamps of Pakistan from 1947 to 1966

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    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).

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of Yemen - Wikipedia

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    First stamps. Yemen issued its first stamps in 1926. [ 2] International mail required additional stamps to be added from a country that was a member of the Universal Postal Union as Yemen did not join the UPU until 1 January 1930. International mail was often routed via Aden on the Yemeni coast which was under British control at the time.