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This postage stamp with an image of King Leopold I of Belgium was the first stamp issued on the European continent.
Contributor:
Jacques Wiener
Places:
Brussels, Belgium
Date:
1849
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This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…
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Eugène Roger
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1646
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Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
Contributor:
Jean Domenge
Places:
Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty (Kaifeng, China)
Date:
1722