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Today, the city is surrounded by two bypass roads for Israeli settlers, leaving the inhabitants squeezed between thirty-seven Jewish enclaves, where a quarter of all West Bank settlers, roughly 170,000, live; the gap between the two roads is closed by the 8-metre high Israeli West Bank barrier, which cuts Bethlehem off from its sister city ...
A used 1985 stamp for the centenary of the first Bechuanaland stamps, depicting a George V stamp for the Bechuanaland Protectorate A 1975 meter stamp from Botswana. Botswana has produced postage stamps for national use since becoming independent on 30 September 1966. The country formerly used the stamps of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Mail carriers in Baku, 1914. The postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan describes the history of postage stamps and postal systems in Azerbaijan, which closely follows the political history of Azerbaijan, from its incorporation to the Russian Empire in 1806, to its briefly obtained independence in 1918, which it lost to the Soviet Union in 1920 and re-acquired in 1991 after the fall ...
The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination.
The postal service was started on 4 August 1883 with one post office building, called Praisaneeyakarn (Thai: ไปรษณียาคาร) on the bank of Chao Phraya River near Ong Ang Canal. [3] The first postage stamps—the Solot Series—and a postcard were issued on the same day. [4]
Stamps were issued for regular postage and for postage due and were overprinted for use as newspaper stamps and for other purposes. 1 Piastre military stamp, 1898, world's first octagonally perforated stamp. In 1898 the Ottoman Empire issued a series of stamps for its armed forces occupying Thessaly during the Greco-Turkish War. [19]
Royal Mail stamp increases – 1st class standard stamp goes up by 10p to £1.35 and 2nd class standard increases by 10p to 85p. Other postage has increased too. Other postage has increased too. Three Britons, named as John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby, are identified as being among seven people working for the food charity World ...
Mecca has been referred to by many names. As with many Arabic words, its etymology is obscure. [24] Widely believed to be a synonym for Makkah, it is said to be more specifically the early name for the valley located therein, while Muslim scholars generally use it to refer to the sacred area of the city that immediately surrounds and includes the Ka'bah.