The Gill Hotel chain acquired the British Colonial Hotel and invested $1,000,000 to ‘modernize and improve’ the hotel. The hotel was closed for the summer of 1956 to complete the upgrade and re-opened later in the year. Some of the facilities available included the Hong Kong Room, La Cage Supper…
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Bahamas Philately: The Ocean Club
The Ocean Club, located on Paradise Island, was originally developed as the private estate of a Swedish industrialist, Axel Wenner-Gren. For more than two decades he created a magnificent estate with intricately landscaped gardens inspired by those at the Chateau de Versailles. Wenner-Gren christened it Shangri-La. In 1962 Huntington Hartford…
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Exploring Stamps: Season 4/Ep.3 – Singapore & Straits Settlements Stamps
Come explore Singapore’s early philatelic history with Exploring Stamps, which included the beautiful stamps of the Straits Settlements. He follows a postcard through South Asia, learns about a Merlion, admire Singapore’s incredible skyline and more.
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Gold Coast
The Gold Coast was a British Crown Colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957. By 1901, the British had established a colony incorporating all of the Gold Coast, with its kingdoms and tribes considered a single unit. The British exploited and…
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Postal Pleasures: Ghana Stamps – Goodwill Haul Bag 2
Postal Pleasures Presents: Ghana Stamps – Goodwill Haul Bag 2 – Diana, Monkeys, Trains, Christmas, & More
View More Postal Pleasures: Ghana Stamps – Goodwill Haul Bag 2Thematic: Hotels
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television,…
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Thematic: Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller’s own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country’s…
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. The first permanent state in present-day Ghana was the Bono state of the 11th century. Numerous kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which the most powerful were the Kingdom of Dagbon in the north and the…
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SEAPEX: Indian State of Bundi Sacred Cows Issues (1914-1942)
Join SEAPEX and the India Study Circle for a presentation on The Indian State of Bundi Sacred Cows Issues 1914-1942 by John Warren.
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Stanley Gibbons: The Value of the Penny Red
The successor to the Penny Black, Oscar Young takes a look at the humble Penny red at three different price points. What takes this stamp from £5 to £500,000?
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