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Symbolic Decolonization and Postal Politics: Sovereignty, Secession and the Stamps of Pseudo-States in Sub-Saharan Africa, c.1960-1979

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Lorsque le Katanga se sépare du Congo en 1960, que la Rhodésie déclare unilatéralement son indépendance de la Grande-Bretagne en 1965 et que le Biafra tente de se détacher de la fédération nigériane en 1967, leur souveraineté n’est pas reconnue par la ...
Gary Baines
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Confederate Postal History: An Anthology from The Stamp Specialist (review)

Civil War History, 1977
F. Byrne
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An Automatic Postage Stamp and Postal Card Distributor

Scientific American, 1902
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Image-Based Stamp Extraction for Enhanced Postal Automation

2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing, 2008
Postal automation is yet a partially solved challenge, and part of the challenge is the automatic and accurate extraction of stamps in envelope. We observed that the stamp perforations form a distinct boundary between the stamps and the background. The number and the linear distribution of stamp perforations can be utilized to extract and validate each
Haidong Yuan, Huadong Ma, Xiaodong Huang
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The U.S. Postal Service and Cancer Screening — Stamps of Approval?

New England Journal of Medicine, 1999
The U.S. Postal Service recently unveiled prostate-cancer and breast-cancer stamps with strikingly different messages (Figure 1).
S, Woloshin, L M, Schwartz
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Philatelic Nudges: The Impact of Traffic Safety Stamps on Public Awareness and Behavior

RA Journal Of Applied Research
This study investigates the potential of postage stamps and related philatelic products to nudge public awareness and behavior, particularly in traffic safety.
Dr. Haris Alibasic, Christopher L. Atkinson, Dr. Steven Walczak   +2 more
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Postal stamps on drug and alcohol abuse.

Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology, 1999
S Z, Rahman, K C, Singhal
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A Perspective on Postal Stamps in South Africa (1910–1994): Politics and Propaganda, Measured Against International Development Patterns

South African Journal of Cultural History, 2022
P. Labuschagne
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FRUIT AND BERRY AND VEGETABLE CROPS ON POSTAL MINIATURES (POSTAGE STAMPS): ADDITIONAL PHILATELIC RESEARCH MATERIAL

АПК: инновационные технологии, 2023
A. Semin, A. S. Kucherov
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International Stamps and Postal History relating to Mao Zedong

Journal of Chinese Philately, 2021
Nur weniger Politikerinnen und Politiker wurden so oft auf Briefmarken dargestellt wie Chinas Revolutionsführer Mao Zedong – sowohl in seiner Heimat als auch international. Auch im Ausland diente Maos Porträts zu Beginn der politischen Propaganda. Später zielten sie vor allem auf das Interesse (und die Geldbeutel) von Sammlern und Philatelisten in ...
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