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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    White and blue Scinde Dawks. Postage stamps of Pakistan are those issued since Pakistan's independence in 1947. Pakistan Post has issued more than 600 sets and singles totalling more than 1300 stamps. Immediately after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the new Pakistan government was preoccupied with setting up the government so British ...

  3. List of postage stamps of Pakistan from 1947 to 1966

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    Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).

  4. Market Square (Lake Forest, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 42°15′8″N 87°50′26″W. Market Square. Market Square is a 103,000-square-foot (9,600 m 2) [1] neighborhood shopping center [2] in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area. Opened in 1916, it is often cited as the first planned shopping center in the United States, with common design and ...

  5. James R. Thompson Center - Wikipedia

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    The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), originally the State of Illinois Center, is a postmodern -style civic building designed by architect Helmut Jahn, located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago. Designed with a post-modernist rotunda, it was built to house offices of the Illinois state government in the most populated ...

  6. Old Chicago Main Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...

  7. List of postage stamps of Pakistan from 1967 to 1976

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    One stamp was issued on this occasion; First time in Pakistan a gold stamp was issued. Each stamp contains 25 mg of 23/24 carat gold; Printed by De Carter SA Paris, France; Officially A Imperf Sheet of 10 Stamps and a presentation sheet with one stamp in the centre were issued; Value: Rs. 10; References. Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps Stamps ...

  8. Haymarket affair - Wikipedia

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    The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [2] The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for ...

  9. List of postage stamps of Pakistan from 1987 to 1996

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    One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 5 1987 –2 Savings Bank Week – 21 February 1987; Four stamps & Two Labels were issued in se-tanent strip of Six throughout the sheet. Value: Rs. 5, Rs. 5, Rs. 5, Rs. 5 1987 –3 New Parliament House – 23 March 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 3