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This cover from USA depict a stamp celebrating the Everglades National Park. Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year. Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone. UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976 and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979, and the Ramsar Convention included the park on its list of Wetlands of International Importance in 1987. Everglades is one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.

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This cover from USA depicts a stamp celebrating the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an American national park in the southeastern United States, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America, including Clingmans Dome, Mount Guyot, and Mount Le Conte. The border between the two states runs northeast to southwest through the center of the park. The Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. Te park was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, and an International Biosphere Reserve in 1988.

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This cover from USA depicts 2 stamps, including the 84 cts stamp on the right celebrating the Yosemite National Park. Yosemite National Park is a national park in California. It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 km2) in four counties – centered in Tuolumne and Mariposa, extending north and east to Mono and south to Madera. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological diversity. Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada.

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This cover from USA depicts 2 stamps (on the right corner), celebrating the Independence Hall in Pennsylvania. Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America's Founding Fathers. The structure forms the centerpiece of the Independence National Historical Park. Independence Hall was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 and as a World Heritage Site in 1979. The building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House. It served as the first capital of both the United States and of the Province and later the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1781, and was the site of the Constitutional Convention, at which the U.S. Constitution, the longest-standing written and codified national constitution in the world, was ratified on June 21, 1788.

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This cover from USA depicts 2 different stamps, including a 75 ct stamp (on the right corner), celebrating the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an American national park in the southeastern United States, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America, including Clingmans Dome, Mount Guyot, and Mount Le Conte. The border between the two states runs northeast to southwest through the center of the park. The Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. Te park was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, and an International Biosphere Reserve in 1988.

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This cover from USA depicts 8 first class stamps (4 of each type) celebrating the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.

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This cover from USA depicts 3 different stamps, including2 stamps on the right corner, both celebrating the Grand Canyon National Park. Located in northwestern Arizona, the Grande Canyon National Park is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World. The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The park celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 26, 2019.

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This cover from USA depicts 3 stamps, including the stamp on the right corner, celebrating the Yellowstone National Park, an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially the Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular. While it represents many types of biomes, the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. Yellowstone National Park is inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1978.

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This cover came from USA and depicts 4 stamps, including an old 8c stamp (on the right corner) celebrating the 400th. anniversary of Fortress of San Juan in Puerto Rico. La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico is a World Heritage Site since 1993, located in and near San Juan, Puerto Rico. It comprises a series of fortifications across two properties: La Fortaleza, San Juan National Historic Site, Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Castillo de San Cristóbal, El Cañuelo and San Juan City Walls. These structures were built between the 15th and 19th centuries to defend the city and harbor of San Juan and are examples of European military architecture adapted to port cities on the American continent. La Fortaleza was the first defensive fortification built for the city. The historic site also includes Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Castillo de San Cristóbal, El Cañuelo, and three-fourths of the old city wall.

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This cover from USA depicts 3 stamps, including the stamp on the right corner celebrating the Glacier Bay National Park, a part of the World Heritage Site Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek This is an international park system located in Canada and the United States, at the border of Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 for the spectacular glacier and icefield landscapes as well as for the importance of grizzly bears, caribou and Dall sheep habitat. The total area of the site is 98391.21 square kilometres. It is home to the world's largest non-polar icefield.

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This cover from USA depicts 3 stamps, including the stamp on the right corner celebrating the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Carlsbad Caverns was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, stating that the site is of Outstanding Universal Value based on its exceptional and geological features, unique reef and rock formations, and containment of major cave formations. The reef formation is rich in sea fossils over millions of years, created a massive limestone formation. Several deep canyons in the Capitan Reef formation reveal cross-sections of other formations that have been exposed within the Carlsbad Cave system, including one of the most notable caves in the park, Lechuguilla Cave, which had only been discovered as of 1986 according to the NPS and is currently the deepest and the third longest limestone cave in the site and is home to the largest collection of natural hydromagnesite, helictite, and calcite formations (UNESCO). Carlsbad Caverns continues to form new structures and serves as a highly valued space for scientific research on the geological and biological systems of the park.

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This cover came from USA and depict a single stamps celebrating the Redwood National and State Parks. The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP)are a complex of one national park and three state parks, cooperatively managed, located in the United States along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968) and California's State Parks: Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek (dating from the 1920s), the combined RNSP contain 139,000 acres (560 km2), and feature old-growth temperate rainforests. Located within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, the four parks, together, protect 45 percent of all remaining coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) old-growth forests, totaling at least 38,982 acres (157.75 km2). These trees are the tallest, among the oldest, and one of the most massive tree species on Earth. In addition to the redwood forests, the parks preserve other indigenous flora, fauna, grassland prairie, cultural resources, portions of rivers and other streams, and 37 miles (60 km) of pristine coastline. The ecosystem of the RNSP preserves a number of threatened animal species such as the tidewater goby, Chinook salmon, northern spotted owl, and Steller's sea lion, though it is believed that the tidewater goby is likely to have been extirpated from the park. In recognition of the rare ecosystem and cultural history found in the parks, the United Nations designated them a World Heritage Site on September 5, 1980 and part of the California Coast Ranges International Biosphere Reserve on June 30, 1983.

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Another nice cover from USA, depicting 5 stamps (from a set of 10) issued in 2003 on topic "American Filmaking".

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A nice cover from USA, depicting a complete set from 1978 of 8 stamps on topic "Wildlife from the Canadian-United States border". A single bird stamp completes the list of stamps on cover.