Postal Issues of the Paris 1925 Decorative Arts Exposition Presented by Thomas W. Broadhead, Director of the France and Colonies Philatelic Society (US). The 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes highlighted France’s importance in arts and culture. Although there are no remaining buildings from the exposition, its…
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This is the second of a two-part presentation about how countries have recognized the people, places and events of the Holocaust and World War II fascism on commemorative postage stamps. It features stamps from Macedonia to the People’s Republic of Yemen.
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Postal Pleasures Presents: U.S. Stamps Ep4: More 1920s Famous Person & Landmark Definitive Stamps – Many Pre-Cancels & 1 Perfin
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Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo’, meaning “good river”, “great river”, or “large creek”. Ohio arose from the lands west of Appalachia that were contested from…
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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group by the time Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. Dutch and the Swedish colonists…
View More United States of America: New JerseyMassachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the United States. Plymouth was the site of the second colony in New England after Popham Colony in 1607 in what is now Maine. Plymouth was founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers…
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California is a state in the Western United States. What is now California was first settled by various Native Californian tribes before being explored by a number of Europeans during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Empire then claimed and colonized it. In 1804, it was included in Alta…
View More United States of America: CaliforniaPennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and Appalachian regions of the United States. The state is one of the 13 original founding states of the United States; it came into being in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William…
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Nebraska is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Nebraska was admitted into the United States in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War. The Nebraska Legislature is unlike any other American legislature in that it is unicameral, and its members are elected…
View More United States of America: NebraskaOklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States. The state’s name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning “honored people”. Although “humma” can be defined as “red”, Cyrus Byington stressed that the word is usually applied as an honorific that denotes courage…
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