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It is the top of a submerged mountain composed of limestones with volcanic intrusions, forming an elevated plateau over one thousand feet above sea level. Extremely rich in phosphate of lime, it has been extensively mined since 1897. The population are nearly all employees of the British Phosphate Commissioners, who control the extraction and export of phosphorite. There is a local broadcasting station, and the 3,000 Chinese and Malays have no less than 2,000 radios between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLack of phosphorus in plants causes stunted root growth, spindly stalks and delayed maturity, and phosphates are used extensively as fertilizers. Some rock phosphate is used directly, finely ground, on acid soils, but most is dissolved in acids to make water-soluble phosphates such as super-phosphate from sulphuric acid. Other major producers of rock phosphate include the USA, North Africa, Nauru, Makatea, Ocean Island and Angaur Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristmas Island was annexed by Britain in 1888, and in the following year placed under the control of the Straits Settlements. (Later forming part of Malaysia, the Straits Settlements then consisted of the three British East India Company Territories of Penang, Singapore and Malacca.) Sovereignty was transferred in October, 1958, to Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Omnibus issue displays the White Swan of Bohun and Abbott's Booby. The White Swan of Bohun is to be seen in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, supporting the arms of Bohun. Used by Henry IV by right of marriage to Mary of Bohun, it was later adopted as a Royal Beast by Henry VII, who reunited the Houses of York and Lancaster by his marriage to Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbott's Booby, only to be found on Christmas Island, is related to the gannets and pelicans. It has a strong neck and a thick, tapering beak ideal for catching fish, which it does by plunging vertically into the sea and swallowing them underwater. They nest in colonies, but are excellent fliers, sometimes found hundreds of miles from land in their search for food.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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This area of Central America, once the home of the Mayan civilisation, is sub tropical and supports forests of logwood, mahogany, rosewood, chicle (from which chewing gum is made) and many other exotic trees. Claimed by the Spanish following the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernan Cortes, the country's right to make its own future has long been disputed by neighbouring Guatemala.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSettlement began in 1638 following the shipwreck of some English sailors, and the arrival of settlers from Jamaica. The Bay of Honduras was also a favourite haunt of buccaneers pirating the cargoes of Spanish ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLogwood initially formed the basis of the economy, being valued for the dye which could be extracted from it; but it was soon superceded by mahogany, used for shipbuilding, and carriage and furniture making. The slave trade brought Africans to work as woodcutters, and along with Maya and Carib Indians, they now form the majority of the population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the original forest has now gone and the soil has, in places, been seriously leached by rainfall. Mahogany trees were once very common, but people took a get-rich-quick attitude of cutting without replacing. Consequently, by the end of World War II the forests had been so depleted that the country had to turn to agriculture for its income, developing plantations of citrus fruit, sugarcane and bananas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe government of Belize has had internal autonomy since 1964, and is centred in the new capital Belmopan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate the Coronation Anniversary, Belize chose to display in its Omnibus stamps the White lion of Mortimer, and the Jaguar. The former is the badge of the Earls of March, under which Richard II and Roger Mortimer brought Yorkist claims to the throne to prevail over those of Lancaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Jaguar, principal God of the Olmecs, and Maya God of Day and Night, was an important figure in ceremonial and temple adornment. Its skin denoted Chieftainship. Eating deer, peccaries and crocodiles it is also a good fisher, said to attract fish by tapping its tail on the water.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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They are situated in the tropics, about 1100 miles north of New Zealand, and have a population of approximately half a million, half of which are Melanesian, and half the descendants of indentured Indian labourers brought to the islands between 1879 and 1916 to work the plantations. The highest point is Tomanivi (4341 ft.), on Vitu Levu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distant history of the islands is uncertain, but it is likely that they had Austronesian contact at least 1000 years BC. Melanesians probably arrived in small groups, without complex tribal organisations or high chiefs, by canoe from the northwest, possibly New Guinea. When first contacted by Europeans in the 18th century, the Fijians were among the best sailors in the Pacific, their sailing canoes sometimes being over 100 ft. long, with woven mats as sails and steering oars carved from single logs, over 30 ft. long. It was most likely in such craft that they reached as far afield as Hawaii. Certainly they were formidable warfaring instruments, being used to ram enemy canoes, whose unlucky occupants were then clubbed in the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiji's Omnibus issue shows the Iguana and White Hart of Richard II. The Iguana derives from the legend of the Great Serpent God, Dengei, who taught the art of canoe building. He was, with the son of the Sky God, a leading deity, and probably related to the Maori 'Whiro', god of darkness, evil, sickness and death. Whiro showed himself as a giant iguana, which is known both to Maoris and Fijians as moko'. The Maoris used to tattoo their faces to resemble this feared reptile. The 'moko' however, although it has powerful jaws, is a vegetarian, and no real threat to man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe White Hart of Richard II was most probably adapted from the White Hind of his mother, Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, to make the supporter more appropriate to his name (Rich-hart). The shield shows the 'planta genista', or broom- pod of the Plantagenets, first used by Geofirey of Anjou, and from which the name is derived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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Of volcanic origin, the islands have rugged mountains, high plateaus, offshore coral reefs and three active volcanoes, and are under joint British and French control, the French Governor of New Caledonia, and the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific Isles in the Solomons both being represented by local commissioners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Hebridean Melanesians, unlike Polynesians, have no hereditary nobility, status being achieved by individual ability in bravery, gardening, and especially oratory, since knowledge and cosmology are largely transmitted by traditional speeches and myths. Individual amassing of wealth is also of importance, but for distribution among family, friends and neighbours rather than in the Western mould. Dances im- personate mythical heroes and ancestors, rather than ornament poetry as in Polynesia; and aim at spontaneous group rhythm rather than at rehearsed poetic perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gallic Cock was adopted as a French emblem after the defeat of the Spanish at La Quesnay, in 1665. The local hen (or megapode) is sombre coloured, with bare forehead and throat, showing red skin, and its legs are also red. The bird is unusual in that it incubates its eggs in heaps of scratched-together decaying leaves and forest litter; in soil, sand or hot volcanic ash. When the chicks claw their way out they are already well developed, and can fly as soon as their plumage dries, requiring no parental assistance. In fact, they usually never know their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a result of this strange behaviour, the bird has great significance for the New Hebrideans, being seen as the embodiment of illicit love (illigitimate children are often referred to as megapode eggs). The egg of the megapode is used in sacrificial ceremonies to bring benefit to new-born children, since the bird is also considered, like the shark, swordfish, grouper and stingray, to be a 'changeling' capable of human- beast interchangeably on death. Information on the White Horse of Hanover is given on the New Hebrides English issue page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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Built of oak for George III, the State Coach has become the traditional carriage used by the monarch on Coronation Day. The body is supported by cables from four Tritons, mythical beings having power to raise or calm the waves. The roof is supported by eight ornamental palms, four of which display the plunder of war. Paintings adorning the panels were painted by Cipriani, and include scenes of Neptune and attendants bringing the tribute of the world to Britannia, and of Mars and Minerva, gods of war, and Mercury, god of commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003el0 1\/2p — St. Edward's Crown. The Coronation is the only occasion during the life of the sovereign when this crown of England is worn. Made for Charles II, the design is based on that used before the Civil War by kings back to Edward the Confessor. Its arches rise from a circlet of gold studded with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and pearls to indicate a hereditary and independent monarchy. At the intersection of the arches, where they support an orb and cross, they are depressed to symbolise that it is a royal, not an imperial crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11p — The Sovereign's Orb. The sphere, or cosmic egg, was like the snake, a fundamental neolithic symbol. Trans- formed by the Romans into a symbol of Jupiter's dominion over the universe, it passed to feudal Europe surmounted by the cross as the emblem of Crusade and Empire. Thus the Archbishop of Canterbury, on handing the Orb (also made for Charles II) to the monarch, says, \"And when you see this Orb set under the Cross, remember that the whole world is subject to the Power and Empire of Christ our Redeemer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13p — The Imperial State Crown. The need for a crown for state occasions arose early in England's history due to the great weight of the Crown of England, and the risk of loss involved in travel. This present crown was made for Queen Victoria, and is set with 3095 precious stones. The arches, rising to denote Empire, are composed of silver and diamond oak leaves and acorns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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It has one of the highest population densities in the world, with 90 percent of the population living outside the cities of Dacca and Chittagong. The climate is tropical, and rainfall is seasonally heavy. The frequent cyclones too often result in flooding, starvation and epidemics which kill thousands. Industrial development is hampered by the poor agricultural surplus, which cannot finance the building of power plants, the improvement of transportation or other prerequisites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically Bangladesh formed part of the Bengal province of India, and from 1947 to 1971 the Eastern part of Pakistan. An attempt by West Pakistani forces to suppress the rapidly growing movement for independence provoked, intervention by neighbouring India, and in 1971 Bangladesh was established as a parliamentary democracy in its own right. This commemorative issue by Bangladesh was issued on 20th May 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e40p — Coronation Regalia. Depicted here are the Crown of St. Edward, the Sceptre with Cross and the Sceptre with Dove. St. Edward's Crown is worn only for the Coronation ceremony, and is a copy of Edward the Confessor's Crown, dating from the reign of Charles II. The Sceptre with Cross, also made for Charles II, is emblematic of the monarch's power, and the Sceptre with Dove symbolises 'equity and mercy'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003et3.50 — Balcony Scene. Appearing with Her Majesty in this stamp are Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, acknowledging the cheers of the crowd assembled in front of Buckingham Palace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003et5 — H.M. the Queen and Prince Philip. The newly crowned Queen is shown wearing coronation robes, and the Imperial State Crown. Her husband, then Duke of Edinburgh, wears naval uniform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003et10 — Official Coronation Portrait. Her Majesty is shown wearing coronation robes, armills (a gift from Commonwealth Heads of State) and the Imperial State Crown, which replaces the heavier St. Edward's Crown after the ceremony. She also holds the Golden Orb and the King's Royal Sceptre with the Cross.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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The people, of Sangoan hunter-gatherer and Sudanic origin, were for centuries under the sway of neighbouring African kingdoms. Between 1884 and 1919 the Germans controlled Togo and from then until independence in 1960, the French. The economy relies on subsistence agriculture, although some coffee, cacao, palm-oil kernels, cotton, teak and phosphates are exported.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis issue by Togo depicts the west face of Westminster Abbey, which stands on the site of an ancient Benedictine Monastery. A Norman Romanesque church built by Edward the Confessor also predated the present Early English Gothic structure, begun by Henry III. The Abbey's Gothic architecture contrasts with Romanesque by its dramatic vertical domination; even the curve of the arch being broken by a point. This search for vertically paralleled feudal ideas of hierarchy, order imposed from above by God and king, and of happiness only being found in heaven. The horizontal, and all that broke the vertical, such as the leaves, flowers, fruit and fan vaulting of 'Decorated' Gothic, symbolised this world, the senses, and a greater equality among people. This decorated style may be seen in the rose-window in the South Trancept, the Choir and the Chapter House.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts opposing trend, seen in the Abbey's Henry VII Chapel, is that of 'Perpendicular' Gothic, in which every element is subsumed in a spartan vertical monolith. This concept rapidly lost its appeal with the resultant emergence of absolute monarchs like Henry VIII, and individualism burst into the broader path of the Renaissance. The worldly ornamentation of the Decorated style then flourished as Baroque and Rococo, producing buildings such as St. Paul's Cathedral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Western Towers, in mock Gothic, are believed to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and were not completed until 1745. 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The seed was sown by Thomas Jefferson, who believed that black and white could not co-exist as equals in America, and who thus advocated re-patriation. Southern planters took up the idea and formed the American Colonisation Society' to return freed slaves to Africa, and so remove the example they set other slaves Protestant businessmen put up the money, hoping also to bring Christianity to Africa and thereby open the way for trade; and the US Navy negotiated the necessary Ufld at pistol point. But black people saw America as their home too, and between 1821 and 1850 only 17,000 left to man the new colony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA constitution similar to that of America was drawn up, but included only the 20,000 Americo-Liberians. The 2 million native Africans had no vote or representation in the new state until the rule of President Tubman in 1944, and strife was consequently no stranger during its early days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe economy is still based on self-sufficient subsistance agriculture, although the government and missionaries have tried hard to get farmers to grow cash crops for the industrialised nations. Mineral wealth, chiefly iron ore, gold and diamonds, has since the 1950s brought some prosperity, but much remains to be exploited, including vast stands of ebony and mahogany within the dense inland tropical rain-forest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe issue commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Coronation was designed by G. Vasarhelyi, and printed by Format. It was issued on 12 June, 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5c — The Coronation Chair. 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Discovered by John Byron (grandfather of the poet) in 1764, the islands' history was much that of the neighbouring Gilbert Islands, becoming a British protectorate in 1892 when the Pacific was divided among the European Empires. Trading interest was originally in coconut oil for making soap and candles, but soon oil extraction was reserved for Europe, and local industry was reduced to sun drying the nut for export. In 1976 the Polynesian Ellice Islanders voted to become Tuvalu, separate from the Micronesian Gilberts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stamps, one of the 'Defender of the Faith' issues, were designed by Gordon Drummond and printed by Format. They depict:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8c — Canterbury Cathedral. The ecclesiastical centre of England since the monastery was founded by St. Augustine, Canterbury's cathedral was rebuilt several times. Much of the finance for the majestic Perpendicular nave came from Pilgrims to Becket's tomb, and from the sale of indulgences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e30c — Salisbury Cathedral. The present building was founded in 1220. Its spire, the highest in England, is, like the tower, in Decorated style. The local bishop, as lord of the manor of Milford, was overlord of the city until his authority was assumed by James I.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e40c — Wells Cathedral. This, the first of all-pointed cathedrals, dates from the 12th century, and its West Front with its 300 statues is a renowned example of Early English architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$1.00 — Hereford Cathedral. Exemplifying all architectural styles from Norman to Perpendicular, the cathedral was built in the 11th century to replace one destroyed by the Welsh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDefender of the Faith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the separation of the English church from Rome and the seizure of monastic wealth, Henry VIII began consolidating his power, eliminating all opposition. Bishops Fisher and More, who had helped him write the attack on Luther (earning Henry the title 'Defender of the Faith') were executed. Then after killing two wives for adultery and divorcing another, Henry decreed that his title 'Defender of the Faith' should become hereditary, as it remains today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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The familiar Caribbean pattern of sugar and cotton plantations worked by African slaves was soon established, jointly with French settlers. Resistance played its relentless part in slavery's abolition, and even the burning alive and quartering of rebel slaves who had ensconsed themselves in a fort did nothing but speed the day. The population now is primarily of African descent, but much of the farmland is still in the form of sugar and cotton plantations owned by the European minority, many of whom do not live on the island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe local beast in this Omnibus issue is the Pelican, which fishes mostly by ducking its head while surface swimming. Its close relatives play complementary ecological roles; the cormorants fish while swimming underwater, the boobies are expert dive bombers, and the frigates are adept pirates. However, feeding on inland and coastal waters, the pelicans accumulate insecticide residues. This causes their eggs to have shells so thin that they break before hatching. In direct consequence, pelicans along the Californian coast are now unable to breed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bird's symbolic use in Mediaeval church architecture derives from an Egyptian fable of a mother pelican feeding her children on her blood, just as Christianity has Christ redeeming his flock with his own blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Falcon is associated with Edward I because of its heraldic use by two of his sons and the existence in 1359 of a Falcon King of Arms. The Falcon was symbolically identical with the eagle, carrier of both Indra's and Jupiter's thunderbolts, and their messages. Being also the natural enemy of the serpent, this made it appropriate for incorporation into the christian mythos, appearing as the church lectern eagle. As a symbol of power and fearlessness, it came to be the exclusive standard of Roman armies, and is still used as the national emblem of the United States. In this form it reflects the concept of man as master of his environment, from which the holistic concept of man as part of the environment is only now re-emerging. Modern ecology is one example of this view.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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It was settled by Polynesians in the first millenium B.C. and although visited by Dutch and French explorers in the 18th Century, no European settlement began until 1856, when it fell under German influence. New Zealand was given trusteeship after the First World War, but met with Samoan resistance to destruction of their culture, and to foreign domination of their government. After World War Two the islands came under United Nations trusteeship, and became independent in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShown in the Samoan Omnibus issue is the Pacific Pigeon, a large bird with a grey crown and upper back, pinkish grey underparts, dark blue-green mantle, wings, back and tail, black bill and red feet. It gathers in large flocks and moves from island to island in search of fruit. Of importance to the islanders' diet, Polynesian legend held that it connected us with spirits and ancestors, and as brother of Maui, helped fish up the land from the sea bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe King's Lion, also depicted, bears the arms of Henry VIII and Queen lane Seymour. Henry introduced the lion as cosupporter of the royal arms with the dragon, replacing the greyhound. From statuettes dated 6000 B.C. the lion is seen with the great mother goddess, perhaps originally symbolising motherhood. For the Egyptians, as Aker, it was Earth God; the sun rising from one of his lion mouths and setting in the other. Associated with Artemis it continued to represent motherhood but in addition hunting, vegetation and wild life, and so was still basically a fertility image. Like the serpent, it was the enemy of the newly emergent Mesopotamian civilisation, chosen as embodiment of 'chaos demons' to derogate the old religion; and with the later rise of fiercely authoritarian Assyria it acquired similar significance to its mediaeval heraldic use; as Nergal, god of war and pestilence, and judge of the dead, antithesis of fertility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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It became British when captured in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704. A strongly fortified naval base, it withstood a three year siege at the end of the 18th century, and played an important role in World War II. In 1967, in accordance with a UN resolution, a referendum was held and Gibraltarians voted 12,138 to 44 to retain British links and not be incorporated into Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShown in this issue, designed by Walsall Studios and printed by Walsall Security Printers Ltd., are five British palaces:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6p — Holyroodhouse. This palace was erected near Edinburgh, on the site of Holyrood Abbey at the beginning of the 16th century. Restored by Charles II, it was used as a sanctuary for insolvent debtors in the 19th century, and only later restored as a royal residence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9p — St. James' Palace. Swampy ground belonging to the Sisters of St. James in the Field was seized by Henry VIII in 1532 for a red brick castle, to the Court of which the credentials of foreign diplomats are still addressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12p — Sandringham House. Standing in 19,500 acres of sandy heath and farmland, the estate was bought by the Prince of Wales in 1861 as a winter residence for the partridge shooting season. George VI died here in 1952.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18p — Balmoral. On the banks of the River Dee, County Aberdeen, and acquired by Prince Albert in 1847, Balmoral's small castle was replaced in ensuing years by the present Scottish Baronial style structure. It is used as a summer residence for local grouse shooting and for visits to the Highland Games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e25p — Windsor Castle. This Berkshire residence stands in 13 acres and consists of two courts divided by the well-known Round Tower. Although the current site was first developed by William the Conqueror, Saxon kings had lived in Windsor in the 9th century. The Round Tower was built by Henry II, and the St. George's Chapel was begun by Edward IV. It is an excellent example of Perpendicular architecture, and is a mausoleum to recent monarchs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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At several points the earth's mantle has broken through, forming by continued volcanic action such islands as Iceland, the Azores and Ascension Island. Tristan da Cunha, its steep, often snow covered cone rising to 7,640 ft. is another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough discovered three hundred years before, permanent settlement only dates from 1816, when the British garrisoned the island to prevent it being used as a base to rescue Napoleon from exile on St. Helena, 1500 miles NNE. The male ancestors of the present population of about 300 were white Europeans and Americans, but the women, in addition to coming from Europe, also included many of Negro or Malay origin. This rich mixture produced a people known for their spirit of partnership and respect for the individual, and an island where crime is unknown. Their determination can also be gauged from the fact that having been evacuated from the island when threatened by an erupting volcano in 1961, the large majority had returned to start anew in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Islanders speak English with some 19th Century characteristics, such as pronouncing Vs like 'w's. A slight Australian-like accent is also noticeable. From their village of Edinburgh, the population grows potatoes, and rears sheep, cattle and fowl. The Crawfish, depicted in this issue, is found off the coast and has become essential to the fishing and pro- cessing industries since a canning plant was built in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other animal in this set is the King's Bull, seen here supporting the Tudor Rose. Its original can be found guarding the entrance to Hampton Court Palace. This use of heraldic supporters to decorate roof parapets, flying butresses, and even tent poles was very common in the reign of Henry VIII, whose love of display was well known. The bull has been a symbol of power and divinity in many cultures throughout the ages. It can be traced all the way back to the time when farming brought civilisation to Sumer more than 5000 years ago, appearing for example in the wall paintings of Minoan Crete and as the Biblical Golden Calf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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Beyond the mangroves, land near the river is flooded in the rainy season (June to October), and arid under the influence of the Harmattan, a dry northeasterly wind which blows between December and April. The average temperature is 80\"F.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gambia's 375,000 people are of varied ethnic origin. The Fulani, mainly cattle owners; the Wolof, found near the coast; the Doyla making up 10 percent of the population; the Soninke, famous as long distance traders; and the Malinke (or Mandingo), the largest group. Unlike their more egalitarian neighbours, the Malinke claim a hereditary nobility from the rise in the 17th century of the Empire of Mali, most powerful of the African civilisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContact with Europeans from 1455 bought three centuries of enslavement and deportation to the New World; a grim age most vividly described in the recent bestseller 'Roots', its opening chapters being set in 18th century Gambia. An estimated 20 million Africans were deported, about 15 percent of whom died on the Atlantic voyage. When the slave trade was finally outlawed, Britain established a naval base at the mouth of the Gambia River as a deterrent, and in 1816 founded the town of Bathurst, now the capital, Banjul. The Gambia became an independent republic within the Commonwealth in 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gambia's Omnibus issue displays as supporters the Lion and the White Greyhound. The lion needs little introduction. It is found in open country, mainly south of the Sahara, and hunts by careful stalking and short charges, or even with some members of the pride driving game into an ambush laid by others. Although rarely maneaters, they cause considerable losses to communities by their skillful theft of cattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed as a heraldic beast by Richard III, the White Greyhound acquired its association with Richmond when Henry VI granted it as a supporter to his half brother Edmund on the occasion of his becoming Duke of Richmond. Edmund was Henry VII's father, and the beast has remained with the royal family ever since, being used today in the badge of the Queen's Messengers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"🎁 Special Offer Included! 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Its 60,000 people are mostly of Celtic extraction, and engaged in agriculture (oats, barley, root vegetables), raising livestock, and the tourist industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConquered in the 9th century by the Vikings, Man fell under Scottish control in the 13th century. It was taken by Edward I, who put it in the charge of the Prince Bishops of Durham; and was reconquered onr~* — by Robert the Bruce — before reverting to tine English crown in 1329. It is not, however, part of the United Kingdom, having its own legislature, judiciary and local government, but the U.K. assumes responsibility for defence, foreign relations, customs and postal services.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Manx three-legged emblem, as famous as the tailless Manx cat, appeared in the 13th century and seems to derive from the Norse-Irish kings, who used a triple knot on their coins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis special Coronation Anniversary stamp depicts Her Majesty bearing the symbols of kingship. The border is in the Celtic tradition, the abstract design deriving from early repeating patterns of entwined serpents, symbolic of fertility and the life force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the British Coronation ceremony, the regalia is presented to the monarch after the Anointing, but before the Crowning. First to be presented are the Armills, decorated bracelets given by the countries of the Commonwealth for the Coronation in 1953. 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