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Mollusca Stamp of Nicaragua

Nicaragua is sandwiched in between Honduras and Costa Rica, and faces the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific. It was discovered in 1502 by Columbus and became Spain territory and participated in Central America federation comprising 5 countries with El Salvador in 1821, and separation became independent from Central America federation in 1838. It was occupied by the U.S. forces which received a request from domestic maintenance power from 1912 to 1933. Commander Somoza National Guard held real power in coup d'etat and lasted for 1936 years than 40 years, and the autocracy times of the Somozas continued. A revolution by democracy power succeeded in 1979.
From Nicaragua, the stamp which drew seven kinds of Mollusca altogether was issued in 1988.

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