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    The Colonial Exposition Issue was the first omnibus issue of the French colonial empire. Issued in 1931, in conjunction with the Paris Colonial Exposition...
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    The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "Exposition coloniale internationale", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in...
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  • issuing authorities to bring out more stamps than would have otherwise been thought necessary. These were often heavily marketed. Colonial Exposition...
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    : 148, 151   The National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century was established by six women while attending the exposition. The centerpiece was the Tower...
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    The Exposition Universelle of 1889 (French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), better known in English as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was a world's...
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    The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United...
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    hearth-and-home interpretation of the colonial past was counterposed to the theme of progress, with the overarching theme of the exposition serving to reinforce a view...
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    colonial period. This area consisted of over twenty buildings, along with guides dressed in period clothing to interact with people. The Exposition also...
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    Panama–California Exposition was a world exposition held in San Diego, California, between January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1917. The exposition celebrated the...
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    The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from...
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    and 1925) and two colonial expositions (in 1907 and 1931). Bela Menczer, "Exposition, 1867." History Today (July 1967), Vol. 17 Issue 7, pp.429-436. Karabell...
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    as a major colonial power through numerous pavilions built on the hill of the Trocadéro Palace. Major structures built for the exposition include the...
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    The Jamestown Exposition, also known as the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition of 1907, was one of the many world's fairs and expositions that were popular...
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  • woman, and Hausa warrior. Upper Volta also participated in the Colonial Exposition Issue of 1931. In 1932 the colony was dissolved and its territory divided...
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    commemorate the American handover of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. The theme of the exposition was the oceans, and focused on oceanographic technologies, marine life...
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  • World Expo organised and sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which is being held in Osaka, Japan. It takes place for six months...
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  • Gate International Exposition (GGIE) was a World's Fair held at Treasure Island in San Francisco, California, U.S. The exposition operated from February...
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    followed by the Colonial Exposition Issue in 1931. Separate stamps issues came to an end in 1936, after which Chad used the stamps issued for all of French...
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    The California Pacific International Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego, California, during May 29, 1935–November 11, 1935 and February 12...
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  • Eshugbayi Eleko (category People from colonial Nigeria)
    and legal victory over the British colonial government symbolized the struggle between indigenous rights and colonial rule in Nigeria. The outcome of the...
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    meeting a resupply convoy in the James River. Jamestown served as the colonial capital from 1616 until 1699. In August 1619, the first recorded slaves...
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    The company had sold stock, and the City of Chicago had issued bonds to pay for the exposition, but the construction budgets had been greatly underestimated...
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    Cotton States and International Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1895. The exposition was designed "to foster trade...
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    English colonial empire Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia History of Virginia History of Virginia on stamps Jamestown Exposition List of...
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    "Jamestown Exposition Issue", Arago: people, postage & the post online, National Postal Museum, viewed 17 April 2014. Österberg, Bertil O. (2001). Colonial America...
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    four stamps for the Colonial Exposition was the last to be produced for the territory; from 1936 on, French Equatorial Africa issues were used until 1959...
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    Colonial buildings and structures in Jakarta include those that were constructed during the Dutch colonial period of Indonesia. The period (and the subsequent...
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    Arsenio Luz (category Paris Colonial Exposition)
    commissioner general of the Philippine commission to the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition. On July 18, 1931, the Philippine commission, along with prominent...
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    on 22 November 2014 at the XVII Solemn Exposition. The display closed on 4 January 2015. The previous exposition, the sixteenth, was held from 21 November...
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    concrete, he began the decade designing the Japanese pavilion at the Seville Exposition 1992, with a building that was hailed as "the largest wooden structure...
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