The American Philatelic Society‘s Chatty awards are designed to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary Stamp Chat presentations of 2020 that highlight the best the hobby has to offer. The awards fall into seven categories: Connecting Philately with the Professional World Stamps Teach Creative Philately Digital Philately Cultural Philately Destination Philately…
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE), simply the Emirates, is a country in Eastern Arabia, located at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Human occupation has been traced back to the emergence of anatomically modern humans from Africa some 124,000 BCE through finds at the Faya-2 site in Mleiha, Sharjah.…
View More United Arab EmiratesIn 1647, Captain William Sayle and the Eleutheria Adventurers (a group of Puritans), left Bermuda to seek relief from persecution by the Church of England. The group became ship-wrecked on the reefs of the northern end of the Arawak island of Cigatoo (Eleuthera) near the area now known as Preachers Cave.…
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Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in Eastern Arabia. In 1613, the town of Kuwait was founded in modern-day Kuwait City. Administratively, it was a sheikhdom, ruled by local sheikhs. In the eighteenth century, Kuwait prospered and rapidly became the principal commercial center for the transit of goods…
View More KuwaitBahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is a country in the Persian Gulf, Eastern Arabia. The island nation comprises a small archipelago made up of 51 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered around Bahrain Island. Bahrain is the site of the ancient Dilmun civilization. It has been…
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Eastern Arabia was historically known as Al-Bahrain until the 18th century. This region stretched from the south of Basra along the Persian Gulf coast and included the regions of: Ahwaz al-Hasa Bahrain Kuwait Northern Oman Qatar Qatif Southern Iraq United Arab Emirates The entire coastal strip of Eastern Arabia was…
View More Eastern ArabiaQatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country that forms Eastern Arabia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the north-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar has been ruled by the House of Thani since Mohammed bin Thani signed a treaty with the British in 1868 that recognised its…
View More State of QatarThe Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia, and on 31 May 1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa, as…
View More NatalDuring the Second Boer War, the British forces entered the territory of the Orange Free State and occupied the capital Bloemfontein on 13 March 1900. Five months later, on 6 October 1900, the British government declared an official annexation of the full territory of the Orange Free State, despite the…
View More Orange River ColonyThe Orange Free State (Oranje Vrijstaat), was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century. It is one of the three historical precursors to the present-day Free State province. The Republic’s name derives partly from the Orange River, which…
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