Marshall Islands -2nd Decade of 20th Century -M/S- Scott #646a-o

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Marshall Islands 1997 – Second Decade of 20th Century – MINT

Miniature Sheet of 15

Decade of Revolution and Great War ((1910-1919)…

(#a: 60c value): Women Mobilize For Equal Rights

(#b: 60c value): Scientists Probe The Physical Universe

                         (Ernest Rutherford, model of atom)

(#c: 60c value): The Chinese Revolution

                         (Sun Yat-sen)

(#d: 60c value): The Power Of Nature Asserts Itself

                         (Sinking of the Titanic)

(#e: 60c value): Artists Reshape The World Of Music

                         (Igor Stravinsky , The Rite of Spring)

(#f: 60c value): Assembly Lines Achieve Economies For Consumers

                        (Ford begins assembly line production of autos)

(#g: 60c value): The Great War Begins

                         (Archduke Franz Ferdinand, wife Sophie

(#h: 60c value): Submarine Warfare Extends The Reach Of War

                         (German U-boat sinks Lusitania)

(#i: 60c value): Battle of Verdun Defines The Savagery of War

                        (Soldiers in trenches at Battle of Verdun)

(#j: 60c value): Ireland’s Easter Rebellion

                        (Patrick Pearse proclaims Irish Republic)

(#k: 60c value): Balfour Declaration Proclaims Jewish Homeland

                         (Jews praying at Wailing Wall)

(#l: 60c value): The Russian Revolution Explodes

                        (Cruiser Aurora)

(#m: 60c value): Airplanes Become Weapons Of War

                          (Baron Manfred von Richtofen)

(#n: 60c value): Europe Fragments In Wake Of The Great War

                         (German revolutionary troops, 1918)

(#o: 60c value): Treaty of Versailles Sows Seeds Of Conflict

                         (Negotiators write Treaty of Versailles)

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