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  Category:Lists of people on stamps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of people on stamps of the Bahamas
List of people on stamps of Cape Juby
List of people on stamps of the Philippines
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 Postage stamps and postal history of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, Austria was caught in the hyperinflation of the early 1920s, and was forced to print new stamps in ever-increasing denominations, topping out at a 10,000 kroner value in 1924.
New stamps were printed also, featuring numerals (for the low values), a field crossed by telegraph wires, a white-shouldered eagle, and a church of the Minorite Friars.
In January 1919 the Italians issued overprinted stamps for all of the occupied territories, the overprint consisting of, for instance, "5 / centesimi / di corona".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stamps_and_postal_history_of_Austria   (1218 words)

  
 Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Republic of Austria or Austria (German Republik Österreich or Österreich) is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Austria has been a federal, parliamentary democracy republic since the Federal Constitution of 1920, which was again reintroduced in 1945 to the nine states of the Federal Republic.
Austria has been the birthplace for several famous composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss, Sr, Johann Strauss, Jr and Gustav Mahler; it is also the home of members of the Second Viennese School such as Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg.
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 List of people on stamps
Although many smaller countries will put a hodge-podge of international personalities on their stamps in an effort to make sales to collectors, countries with a more respectable issuing policy will more often feature people who have played an important role in the country's own history and culture.
By 1965 all parts of Aden were using the stamps of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
From 1904 British East Africa used the stamps of the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates.
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 Austrian Philatelic Literature
Austria, of course, is very fortunate in possessing a rich source of philatelic literature covering every period, from postal history and the Classical period through to the First and Second Republics.
Although possibly more rigorous to list the books in their datable order of publication, it has been thought more convenient to arrange them by author: Austrian philatelic history is essentially that of the major collectors who impressed their characters upon it by communicating their knowledge to others through the progress of their erudite books.
19.3 Giblin J.F. : The People on Austrian Stamps.
www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk /austamps/library/bibliog.htm   (3815 words)

  
 List of people on stamps of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of 2004 everyone can order stamps with anyone's image.
Franz II, Holy Roman Emperor (=Franz I of Austria) (1908)
This page was last modified 01:51, 9 March 2006.
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 Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of people from the Republic of Georgia
List of people from the State of Georgia
List of people known as the father or mother of something
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 Alphabetilately: F is for Firsts
First, each stamp bears a pair of letters, in the bottom left and right corners, which denote its position in the sheets of 240 (12 x 20) in which the stamp was produced.
In recognition of its status as the first nation to issue stamps, Great Britain was given by international agreement the unique right to continue to issue its stamps with no country name (all other countries that wish to send their mail internationally must place the name of their country on each stamp).
However, all GB stamps are immediately recognizable, since the head of the reigning monarch of its date of issue appears on every stamp.
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 GuruNet — Content Map
List of people in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography - R
List of people in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography - V
List of people in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography - W
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 Hitler Head Stamps
Many families, even today, have some or all of these stamps tucked away in a truck and wrapped in stories of a relative who served in WWII and returned home with the stamps as souvenirs of their pains and final victory.
These stamps also serve as a great way to teach the young about a time and place in history that must not be forgotten.
The stamp is part of a series of 22 Hitlers' facing left unlike the definitives facing right in the German Reich.
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 Stamps
There are many stamps which look the same but have varieties in size, color, paper type, perforations, secret marks, and watermarks to name a few.
If you have stamps to offer that can fill holes, or can replace defective or misidentified items, feel free to email me. Suggestions as to the design and implementation of this web site are also encouraged.
These stamps can form an interesting addition to a school report, make wonderful additions to scrapbooks by croppers, can be framed, and can be included in a genealogical report to demonstrate visions of the home country at very little cost.
www.visiteuropeonline.com /germany/stamps.htm   (1828 words)

  
 Stamps
The society is an important source of information and material on the stamps, postal history and philatelic literature of Helvetia, as this popular European country identifies itself on its stamps.
AHPS members have said, in a past survey, that they collect Swiss stamps for one of four reasons: family ties to Switzerland, the experience of living or visiting there, the fine design and printing quality of Swiss stamps, or the country’s solid reputation for a conservative stamp-issuing policy and hard currency.
List of Ratifications of International Labour Conventions by Switzerland, from ILO, 56 docs.
www.visiteuropeonline.com /switzerland/stamps.htm   (1420 words)

  
 Austria
The register that LDS has only includes a listing of passports that were issued by the Vienna passport office (i.e.., the register doesn't include passports which were issued by other offices in Austria, such as Galicia, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc.
Leo Baeck Institute and the Institute for the History of Jews in Austria is actively seeking and collecting memoirs written by persons who formerly lived in the territories of the Hapsburg Monarchy and the Republic of Austria.
Felix Gundacker - professional genealogist for Austria, Bohemia and Moravia
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 eBay — Austria, Europe and Stamps items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We are pleased to offer our fine selection of stamps and postal history, postcards, photographic images, etc. We specialize in just a few select categories and are able to offer you unique items that wi...
Bison Stamps is a seller of philatelic related materials and is a member of the APS, ASDA, IFSDA, and NSDA.
All the stamps are researched thoroughly and presented honestly with large scans for your v...
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 Austrian Real Estate - Guide to purchasing real estate in Austria.
Austria has been a member of the UN since 1955 and the
Bavarii and Franks, Austria was under the rule of the Babenbergs from the
Around ten percent of Austria's people are of non-Austrian descent, many from surrounding countries, especially from the former
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 Postage Stamps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joey collects things related to deafness, deaf people, and sign language.
Also seeking stamps designed by deaf persons such as Afework Mengesha, and of inventors, writers, poets, playwrights, and painters who were deaf or who became deaf, such as Jonathan Swift, Joachim du Bellay, Pierre de Beaumarchais, Beethoven, Francisco Goya, and Thomas Edison.
1985 Austria # 1326 or 1521 - Adam Politzer, aural therapist
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 Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Embossed stamp on tp, text is bright, in linen slip case.
He was the second citizen of the United States to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of London's foreign list and one of the founding members of Benjamin Franklin's American Philosophical Socity.
Contains: Listings of new minerals, and fossils donated to Cabinet of Natural History; Beck's study on the minerals of New York, Hall's study of new fossils described from New York and Morgan's important study of artifacts from the Seneca Indians of western New York.
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 Chapter 22 Special subjects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To the joy and despair of stamp collectors these issues vary as to details of the head design, to the position of the value tablet, design of value numerals, use of paper, AND the form and type of the phosphor bands used as overprint, later as various types of phosphorised papers.
If my friend has noticed that envelopes with post codes have their stamps defaced with dots and canceled, and that envelopes without post codes only have their stamps canceled and not defaced with dots, then it seems a pretty good bet that the culprit is the sorting machines that handle post codes.
On a similar note, some british QV stamps has the names of companies or institutions printed on the front or back of the stamp so that they could not be returned for cash at the post office window.
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 UNESCO World Heritage List
The list currently contains 812 different properties as of July, 2005.
The World Heritage List was established under terms of the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Culture and Natural Heritage adopted in November, 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
List of the 177 parties which have signed the convention
www.thesalmons.org /lynn/world.heritage.html   (1964 words)

  
 Stamps We Offer
We can offer stamps from all parts of the world almost any topical area you can think of.
We have a great stock of Austrian stamps from the 19th century to the BOB issues.
Swiss stamps were one of the first specialties Henry Gitner offered over 20 years ago.
www.hgitner.com /stamps.html   (1393 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
The museums in this list are categorized by country/continent.
countries are listed on separate pages for space reasons.
Finnish museums information including a alphabetical list of museums (also ordered by location and by type) from the Finnish Museums Association.
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 Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956), The Hapsburg Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Finally, these modern Jewish historians have removed the name of Jewry from the list of nations and have represented it to be a group of human beings bound together merely by the bond of a religious denomination.
Their yearnings for the flesh-pots of Egypt, their worship of the golden calf, their propensity to intermarry with the heathen despite the warnings of the Law and the Prophets, show how strong was the assimilationist tendency from the beginning of their recorded or symbolic history.
But as long as the Germans of Austria, who are anti-semitic almost to a man, are content to draw their notions of home and foreign affairs through a Jewish medium, they have only themselves to blame if current notions of public affairs bear a Semitic-German stamp.
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 Index to People on Austrian Stamps
Cumulative Index to Biographies of People on Austrian Stamps
In the introduction the author gives a list of eleven references (in German) from which most of the information could be found.
is listed alphabetically under the German spelling of the surname, except for Saints and Rulers where the Christian name is used.
www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk /austamps/ausmag/8poas.htm   (501 words)

  
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People nowadays have a plethora of products to choose from...the challenge is, how do they choose the right products for their skin problem.
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 1969
August 9 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder five people including Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring and, Abigail Folger.
August 12 - Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes a speech to the nation in which he asks the British Government to deploy a UN Peace-Keeping mission in Northern Ireland.
A live transmission from the moon is viewed by 600 million people around the world when Neil Armstrong walks in the moon.
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 Famous Germans Austrians Swiss - The German Way
Born in Lower Austria, Haydn's genius spanned 50 years of creativity in the service of the Esterhazy court in Eisenstadt and Vienna.
Herzog, as did Weizsäcker before him, has set a high standard for his fellow Germans and occasionally taken them to task for their tendency to dwell on the past and fear the future.
His works ranged from postage stamps to major architectural projects, including his Hundertwasser Haus apartment complex in Vienna (completed in 1986), the redesign of a Danube cruise ship (1996), a winery in Napa, California (1990), and a ceramic mural in Lisbon (1998).
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 Austria Stamps, Selling & Buying, George C. Baxley
Austria 516-9 $7 Mi 855-7 1948-9 Famous people Austria 520//56(33) $105 Mi 893//26 1949-51 Short 4 low values
Austria B245-51 $24 Mi 878-84 1948 Famous people Austria B252-9 $8 Mi 885-92 1948 Cathedral Austria B260-3 $50 Mi 929-32 1949 Children Austria B260-3 B/4 $175 Mi 929-32 1949 Children, blocks/4
Austria B260-3 VLH $20 Mi 929-32 1949 Children, 263 very lighty hinged Austria B264-7 $23 Mi 937-40 1949 POWs Austria B269-71 $68 Mi 952-4 1950 Voting
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 eBay — stamps, stamp collecting and stamp collection items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Find both used and unused stamps from the US and all over the world.
Protect your stamp collection with sheets and folders so they last longer and stay in mint condition.
In the Worldwide Stamps category, search for first day covers, philatelic covers, postal stationary and United Nations stamps.
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 Andrea Reischl's Phonecards Exchange
The cards are listed by country and telecom company, with a description of the card and the nominal value.
Austria - Post und Telekom AG (189) Telekom 160: Wählen Sie jetzt neu, 100+6
For the WWW pages of some fellow collectors, check out the Phonecard Folder and Craig Fisher's phonecard collectors list formerly maintained by Andy Colebourne.
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 Price List for Famous People
#2 - We'll go through our stock and gather NH stamps and covers with a current retail price of over $300 that is very sure to please at net price of $225.
Of course, an itemized list will be enclosed for you.
We will hand-select over $750 worth of great NH stamps and covers from this list for you.
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