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This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a short description of their notability. Since the United States Post Office (now United States Postal Service or USPS) issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and ...
A girl who went missing more than two years ago at the age of 4 was found alive by police on Monday, hidden underneath a staircase in a New York home.
The 2002 Mecca girls' school fire occurred on 11 March 2002 at a girls' school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and killed fifteen people, all young girls.Complaints were made that Saudi Arabia's "religious police", specifically the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, had prevented schoolgirls from leaving the burning building and hindered emergency services personnel ...
2020: Father of the Lost Boys, a memoir by Yuot Ajang Alaak [39] 2019: What They Meant for Evil: How a Lost Girls of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering, by Rebecca Deng. ISBN 978-1-54601-722-6; 2018: Days of Refugee: One of the World's Known Lost Boys of Sudan, a memoir by Nathaniel Nyok [40]
Women of upper class status. While the general population of women in pre-Islamic Arabia did not have many rights, upper-class women had more. Many became 'naditum', or priestesses, which would in turn give them even more rights. These women were able to own and inherit property. In addition, the naditum were able to play an active role in the ...
Raising the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Record newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture shows three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at the World Trade Center, following the September 11 attacks. The official names for the photograph used by The Record ...
(The number in parentheses is the year of first appearance on a stamp.) Queen Victoria on a common stamp of the 1880s. Until 2005, the Royal Mail policy was that the only identifiable living people depicted on British stamps were the monarch and other members of the Royal Family (or people imminently marrying into it). This policy was only ...
Sherri Papini showed up on a lonely stretch of Interstate 5 early Thanksgiving morning. She told a story of being abducted by two Mexican women.