ISSUE 164 - August 2, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
August Events in HistoryThis month our Holidays & Events display celebrates National Golf Month with stamps and covers that demonstrate the worldwide popularity of that pastime, while our Philatelic History display brings together a number of events that took place in August, centering around the August 12, 1898 Protocol of Peace that ended the short-lived Spanish-American War and extended United States influence in the Caribbean and the Pacific. U.S. Territory August ConnectionsBy John F. Dunn This month we take a look at a number of events that took place in August, all related in one way or another to the relationship between the United States and its Territories (listed in the Scott Catalogs under U.S. Possessions), most influenced by the events up to and surrounding the Spanish-American War, a short-lived 1898 conflict between the U.S. and Spain that stemmed from U.S. intervention in the… Continue reading "U.S. Territory August Connections" [PDF Document]
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Antigua & Barbuda |
Australia http://www.royalmelbourne.com.au/welcome/index.mhtml |
Australia |
Barbados |
Belgium http://www.pbgc.be/ |
Bermuda http://www.gotobermuda.com |
Canada http://www.golfcanada.ca/ |
Canada |
Central Africa http://en.wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nicklaus |
Channel Islands - Jersey http://www.royaljersey.com/, |
Christmas Island |
Christmas Island - Australia |
Christmas Island - Australia |
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Cook Islands |
Dominican Republic https://casadecampo.com.do/golf |
Finland http://www.golfeurope.com/euro_clubs/finland-golf-courses.htm |
France |
French Polynesia |
Great Britain http://www.golfdigest.com |
Guinea |
Ireland |
Italy |
Kenya |
Malaysia http://www.rsgc.com.my/ |
Maldives |
Monaco |
Monaco |
New Zealand |
New Zealand |
Palestine |
Togolaise |
United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club |
United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ouimet |
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United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(golfer) |
United States |
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United States |
United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer |
United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Snead |
United States http://www.biography.com/people/babe-didrikson-zaharias-9542047 |