Philately Essays

  • Philately and Stamp Collecting

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    Philately, the study of stamps, differs from stamp collecting, although both hobbies appear synonymous with each other. Not every philatelist collects stamps, however, and many collectors hoard rare stamps without getting involved with the tiny details behind each commemorative adhesive postmark. Building a comprehensive stamp collection may require a basic education in philatelic literature to assess the worth in its current form. Stamp collectors will accumulate postage stamps for their historical

  • Company Profile Of The Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB)

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    MCB invested in the Blue Perry Museum in order to protect national heritage whereby it has a rich collection of historical documents art work. First, it acquired original plans retracing the conquest of the island, extending to other fields like philately, cartography, art and numismatics. The bank was able to offer every one the chance to discover and appreciate the unique work through the museum. 3.3.2 INITIATIVE 175 – GREEN,

  • Stamps In Bulgaria, The Bulgarian Stamps Of Bulgaria

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    Bulgaria issued six new stamps with denominations 3 Stotinka, 5 Stotinka, 10 Stotinka, 15 Stotinka, 25 Stotinka and 30 Stotinka. Similar to the previous issue, the 1881 stamps were also printed in two colours. One of the major rarities in Bulgarian philately is its 5 Stotinki stamp with inverted

  • International Olympic Committee

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    Every four years, there will be an international sports event held. Under this topic, we are not talking about the FIFA World Cup, which hold in the next month, but the Olympics Games. Most of the Olympics Games can hold successfully, the credit of an international organization is indispensable. This international organization is International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC is an international non-governmental and non-profit organization, which constituted itself on 23 June 1894. They also have

  • Analysis Of Plague Of Doves

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    Billy Peace” (184). However, the town assembles and disassembles according to the tragedy and set of events. Everything remains in flux as does the Native-American culture, who Robert C Hamilton examines in “Disaster Stamps”: The Significance of Philately in Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves, that “even when they imitate traditional Native narrative, they are ultimately textual, in the manner of the traditional Western novel”

  • Malta Tourism Authority

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    In every tourism policy, one can find different issues and challenges that a particular country is facing or has to face as a destination which is trying to manage and compete with other countries all over the word especially those who offer basically the same product to the tourists. A tourism policy shows a number of policy responses and a number of aims and tasks which the government of that particular destination is committed to do in a stipulated number of years. In Malta, the government together

  • An Overview of the Rare Disease Known as Kabuki Syndrome

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    Syndrome in 1980 ("Kabuk... ... middle of paper ... .... MedicineNet. Retrieved March 25, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://medicinenet.com/script/main/AlphaIdx.asp?li=MNI&p=A_DICT Mhanni, A., & Chudley, A. (1999) . Genetic landmarks through philately &endash; Kabuki theater and Kabuki syndrome. In A. Chudley (Ed.) , Clinical Genetics (pp. 116-117) . Ireland: Munksgaard. Mhanni, A., Cross, H., & Chudley, A. (1999) . Kabuki syndrome: description of dental findings in 8 patients. Clinical