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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of the United Arab Emirates

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    The UAE issued its first Federal stamps on 1 January 1973. [5] [6] Before then, the individual emirates issued their own stamps. [7] [8] Stamp of Dubai, 1963. Stamp of Ajman, 1965. Stamp of Fujairah, 1964. Stamp of Umm al-Quwain, 1964. Stamp of Sharjah, 1968.

  3. British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Until 1947, Indian stamps were in use and are distinguished by the cancellation "Dubai Persian Gulf". Pakistani stamps were used until 31 March 1948 and then the British agency issues as in Muscat. Dubai assumed control of the postal service in June 1963 when the British agency closed and began issues of its own stamps the same year. Abu Dhabi

  4. Qamar Muneer Akbar - Wikipedia

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    Qamar Muneer Akbar (born 22 October 2009) is a Pakistani child prodigy who holds several world records in education. He is the youngest person to pass O-level Chemistry at the age of eight, breaking the record of his sister, Sitara Brooj Akbar who passed O-level English, Mathematics and Science at the age of 11.

  5. Mohammed Bin Rashid Library - Wikipedia

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    History Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the conception of the library in February 2016, the "Year of Reading" in Dubai. [5] Designed in the shape of an open book on a lectern, the seven-story library will cover 650,000 square feet of property and is expected to facilitate 9 million visitors annually. [6]

  6. Gallery of passport stamps by country or territory - Wikipedia

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    The gallery of passport stamps by country or territory contains an accurate alphabetical list of sovereign states, partially recognised states, and dependent territories with images of their passport stamps including visas. All Schengen countries and Cyprus use the same format for their stamps and stamps are not issued when traveling from one ...

  7. Dubai - Wikipedia

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    Dubai has a free trade in gold and, until the 1990s, was the hub of a "brisk smuggling trade" of gold ingots to India, where gold import was restricted. Dubai's Jebel Ali port, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest human-made harbour in the world and was ranked seventh globally for the volume of container traffic it supports.

  8. United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.Located at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula, it shares borders with Oman and Saudi Arabia; as well as maritime borders in the Persian Gulf with Qatar and Iran.

  9. Postage stamps and postal history of Abu Dhabi - Wikipedia

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    The first Abu Dhabi stamps were a definitive series of 30 March 1964 depicting Sheikh Shakhbout bin Zayed Al Nahyan. There were eleven values under the Indian currency that was used of 100 naye paise = 1 rupee. The range of values was 5 np to 10 rupees. The first stamps of Abu Dhabi issued in 1964 depicting the Ruler at the time, Sheikh ...