The American Philatelic Society’s guest joins them from over 7K meters, live from Tibet, the perfect location for his presentation: “Tibet Stamps and Postal History: An Introduction”. Mr. Danny Kin Chi Wong is an internationally acclaimed philatelist and author.Danny Wong along with Steve Chazen co-authored and edited, “Tibet Stamps and…
View More Stamp Chats: Tibet Stamps and Postal HistoryTibet is a region in East Asia covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and…
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There are only a few stamps of King Edward VIII, thanks to his brief time on the throne, but as All About Stamps and Barry Stagg reveals in this expert talk, there are enough errors, varieties, and postal history to occupy a collector for years.
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The 1979 Revolution, later known as the Islamic Revolution, began in January 1978 with the first major demonstrations against the Shah. After a year of strikes and demonstrations paralyzing the country and its economy, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled to the United States, and Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile to Tehran…
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In this episode, Charles Epting of HR Harmer and Michael Cortese of NobleSpirit catch up with alumni of the Young Philatelic Leaders’ Fellowship, Ryan Todd Wellmaker and Jess Rodriguex, to discuss what they’ve been up to since graduating from the program, and how they’ve continued to be engaged in the…
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The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As at Pearl Harbor, American aircraft were severely damaged…
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The Commonwealth of the Philippines was the administrative body that governed the Philippines from 1935 to 1946, aside from a period of exile in the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 when Japan occupied the country. It replaced the United States Insular Government, a territorial government, and was established…
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After the defeat of the First Philippine Republic, the Philippines archipelago was administered under an American Insular Government. The Americans then suppressed other rebellious proto-states: mainly, the waning Sultanate of Sulu, as well as the insurgent Tagalog Republic. Under American rule, control was established over interior mountainous areas that had…
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The Philippine–American War was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899 to July 2, 1902. While Filipino nationalists viewed the conflict as a continuation of the struggle for independence that began in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution, the U.S.…
View More Philippine–American WarThe Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war led to the U.S. emerging predominant…
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