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

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    First Emirati stamps. 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. Revenue stamps of the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    Revenue stamps of the United Arab Emirates. Map of the United Arab Emirates with Abu Dhabi in yellow and Dubai in red. The United Arab Emirates, formerly known as Trucial States, first issued revenue stamps in 1948 and continues to do so to this day. In addition, the emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai also had their own separate revenue issues.

  4. Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia

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    FreeBSD uses 64-bit time_t for all 32-bit and 64-bit architectures except 32-bit i386, which uses signed 32-bit time_t instead. The x32 ABI for Linux (which defines an environment for programs with 32-bit addresses but running the processor in 64-bit mode) uses a 64-bit time_t. Since it was a new environment, there was no need for special ...

  5. British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia - Wikipedia

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    A surcharged British stamp issued in 1948. British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia issued early postage stamps used in each of Abu Dhabi , Bahrain , Dubai , Kuwait , Muscat and Qatar . Muscat and Dubai relied on Indian postal administration until 1 April 1948 when, following the Partition of India , British agencies were established there.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Postage stamps and postal history of Muscat and Oman

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    A stamp of British India overprinted in 1944 for use in Oman. A surcharged British stamp issued in 1948 by the British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia. The first post office to open in the region was at Muscat on 1 May 1864. This was originally under the Bombay circle but it was transferred to the Sind ( Karachi) circle in April 1869 and then ...

  9. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased. Recent history of first-class increases