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The postage stamps of French Indochina begin on May 16, 1886, with the overprinting of "5" or "5 C. CH." on the generic stamps of the French Colonies, for use in Cochinchina (mainly Saigon). [ 1 ] On January 21, 1888, stamps crudely overprinted A & T (meaning Annam & Tonkin ), along with a "1" or "5", and also on the generic colonies stamps ...
Booker T. Washington was honored on a commemorative stamp, issue of 1940,0 the first African American to appear on a US postage stamp. Main article: List of things named after Booker T. Washington For his contributions to American society, Washington was granted an honorary master's degree from Harvard University in 1896, followed by an ...
Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər, [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleːɔnhart ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of ...
Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
Bavaria Scott #1, the first German stamp, 1849. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Germany and philatelically related areas. The main modern providers of service were the Reichspost (1871–1945), the Deutsche Post under Allied control (1945–1949), the Deutsche Post of the GDR (1949–1990), the Deutsche Bundespost (1949–1995), along with the Deutsche Bundespost ...
The postal service was started on 4 August 1883 with one post office building, called Praisaneeyakarn (Thai: ไปรษณียาคาร) on the bank of Chao Phraya River near Ong Ang Canal. [3] The first postage stamps—the Solot Series—and a postcard were issued on the same day. [4]
A Soviet postage stamp issued 6 September 1983, commemorating al-Khwārizmī's (approximate) 1200th birthday. Al-Khwarizmi (crater) — A crater on the far side of the Moon. [79] 13498 Al Chwarizmi — Main-belt Asteroid, Discovered 1986 Aug 6 by E. W. Elst and V. G. Ivanova at Smolyan. [80]
The living symbol of Smokey Bear was a five-pound, three-month-old American black bear cub who was found in the spring of 1950 after the Capitan Gap fire, a wildfire that burned in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico. [26] [27] [28] Smokey had climbed a tree to escape the blaze, but his paws and hind legs had been burned. [28]