The island of Barbuda is located north of Antigua, in the middle of the Leeward Islands, and is an integral part of the state of Antigua and Barbuda which gained it’s independence on November 1, 1981. It has a population of about 1,638, most of whom live in the town of Codrington. To the south are the islands of Montserrat and Guadeloupe, and to the west and … Continue reading Barbuda #12 (1968)
Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas. It is 21 miles (34 kilometers) in length and up to 14 miles (23 km) wide, covering an area of 167 square miles (432 km²). It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 62 miles (100 km) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea. Barbados is outside … Continue reading Barbados #109 (1906)
I thought I would take a moment and reflect on the past sixty days of A Stamp A Day. I’m a bit surprised that I haven’t missed a day yet, although some days have been difficult either to put together an entry or get it posted on the blog. My internet service at home is unreliable — often extremely slow and doesn’t work at all when … Continue reading 60 Stamps In 60 Days
The name Bangladesh was originally written as two words, Bangla Desh (বাংলাদেশ), which means “the country of Bengal”. Starting in the 1950s, Bengali nationalists used the term in political rallies in East Pakistan. The term Bangla is a major name for both the Bengal region and the Bengali language. The earliest references to the term date to the Nesari plate in 805 AD. The term gained … Continue reading Bangladesh #8 (1971)
Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (กรุงเทพมหานคร). The city occupies 605.7 square miles (1,568.7 square kilometers) in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central Thailand, and has a population of over 8 million, or 12.6 percent of the country’s population. Over 14 million people live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region. The city traces … Continue reading Bangkok #12 (1883)
In Arabic, al-Bahrayn (البحرين) means “the two seas”, although which two seas were originally intended remains in dispute. The entire coastal strip of Eastern Arabia stretching from Basra n Iraq to the Strait of Hormuz in Oman was known as “Bahrain” for a millennium until the Middle Ages. Today, Bahrain’s “two seas” are generally taken to be the bay east and west of the island, the … Continue reading Bahrain #347 (1989)
Bahamas #108 (1938) The Commonwealth of the Bahamas occupies the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola, northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The name Bahamas is derived from either … Continue reading Bahamas #108 (1938)
Today is the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the United States National Parks Service, created by President Woodrow Wilson. The first public reservation in the country was Yellowstone National Park which had been established in 1872. There are now over 450 natural, historical, recreational, and cultural areas throughout the United States, its territories, and island possessions designated as National Parks, National Monuments, National Memorials, … Continue reading Centenary of the U.S. National Parks Service
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