The first country to issue postage stamps was Great Britain. It issued the first postage stamp on 1 May, 1840. These stamps were meant for use only within Great Britain and Ireland, and therefore, functioned almost like local stamps. It is due to this reason that the stamps in Great Britain did not bear the …
We all know of Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand as one of the first two to climb the world’s highest summit, Mt Everest. He also had another feather on his cap. He was the first person to have reached the three extremes – Mount Everest, the North Pole and the South Pole. Thus, the Three …
Cotton gets its name from the Arabic word ‘qutun’, which means fine textile or fabric. Archaeologists have found samples of cotton fabric, as old as 7000 years, at the sites of ancient civilizations, such as Mohenjo-daro, Egypt, and Mexico. Nonetheless, it is difficult to determine the exact period or place when cotton was first used for …
