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  • 1postal system — System that allows persons to send letters, parcels, or packages to addressees in the same country or abroad. Postal systems are usually government run and paid for by a combination of user charges and government subsidies. There are early… …

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  • 2United States Postal Service — This article is about the government agency. For individual post offices, see U.S. Post Office (disambiguation). For the cycling team, see Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. USPS redirects here. For the non profit boating safety and education… …

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  • 3Postage stamps and postal history of India — * For the states with their own stamps, See: main|Stamps and postal history of Indian states * For current information on India Post, See: main|Indian Postal ServiceThis is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of India. As the… …

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  • 4London postal district — The London postal district is the area in England, currently of 241 square miles,HMSO, The Inner London Letter Post , (1980)] to which mail addressed to the LONDON post town is delivered. The area was initially devised in 1856… …

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  • 5John Palmer (postal innovator) — For other persons named John Palmer, see John Palmer .John Palmer of Bath (1742 ndash; 16 August 1818) was a theatre owner and instigator of the British system of mail coaches that was the beginning of the great British post office reforms with… …

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  • 6United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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  • 7POLITICAL LIFE AND PARTIES — Introduction It was largely due to the existence of the pre state political parties, which had conducted intensive political activities for almost half a century within the framework of the yishuv , under the British Mandate for Palestine, that… …

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  • 82001 anthrax attacks — A letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle containing anthrax powder killed two postal workers Location New York …

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  • 9brazil — /breuh zil /, n. brazilwood. [1350 1400; ME brasile < ML < It < Sp brasil, deriv. of brasa live coal (the wood being red in color) < Gmc; see BRAISE] * * * Brazil Introduction Brazil Background: Following three centuries under the rule of&#8230; …

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  • 10Brazil — Brazilian /breuh zil yeuhn/, adj., n. /breuh zil /, n. a republic in South America. 164,511,366; 3,286,170 sq. mi. (8,511,180 sq. km). Cap.: Brasília. Portuguese and Spanish, Brasil. Official name, Federative Republic of Brazil. * * * Brazil&#8230; …

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