Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington, the first U.S. president, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, in…
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Texas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. Texas is nicknamed the “Lone Star State” for its former status as an independent republic, and as a reminder of the state’s struggle for independence from Mexico. The origin of Texas’s name is from the word táyshaʼ,…
View More United States of America: TexasNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It was one of the original thirteen colonies forming the United States. New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans…
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Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Although today Illinois’s largest population center is in its northeast, the state’s European population grew first in the west as the French settled lands near the Mississippi River, when the region was known as Illinois Country and was…
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Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Native Americans had been living in Florida for at least 14,000 years when the first European contact was made in 1513 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, who called it la Florida because it was Easter…
View More United States of America: FloridaAlaska is a United States state in the Western United States, on the northwest extremity of the country’s west coast. Alaska was occupied by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. The state is considered the entry point for the settlement of North America by…
View More United States of America: AlaskaThe United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and some minor possessions. Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia…
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New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States; its capital is Santa Fe, which was founded in 1610 as capital of Nuevo México (itself established as a province of New Spain in 1598), while its largest city is Albuquerque with its accompanying metropolitan area. Inhabited by Native Americans…
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Vesak is a religious festival that celebrates Buddhists all around the world. It demarcates the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the enlightenment of lord buddha, and the passing away of lord buddha. here Stamps with Sara shows her collection of stamps-themed Vesak.
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On Thursday 6th May 2021, Dr Neil Donen FRPSL gave a talk about the ill-fated 1935 Trans-Tasman Jubilee flight, in a meeting of the Royal Philatelic Society London. Hoping to secure the Australia–New Zealand leg of the All-Empire Airmail Scheme, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith attempted to fly some 29,000 mail items…
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