{"id":231,"date":"2016-01-23T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:34:06","slug":"politics-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-5\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Argentina and the United Kingdom first fought over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) using stamps.<\/strong> Argentina countered a 1933 Falkland Islands stamp celebrating the centennial of British Administration with a stamp proclaiming its dominion over the islands. In the 1980s both countries issued stamps showing historic maps as evidence of their territorial claims. The 1982 war brought bolder assertions: an Argentinian stamp overprinted with \u201cLas Malvinas Son Argentinas\u201d (The Malvinas Are Argentine) shortly after its military occupation of the islands<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and British stamps honoring the islands\u2019 \u201cliberation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx030md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-383\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx030md-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx030md\" width=\"635\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Falkland Islands<\/strong>, 1933<em>\u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-386\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx033md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-386\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx033md-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx033md\" width=\"635\" height=\"952\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Argentina<\/strong>, 1936 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-384\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx031_1md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-384\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx031_1md-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx031_1md\" width=\"635\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Falkland Islands<\/strong>, 1981 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx035md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-382\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx035md-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx035md\" width=\"635\" height=\"874\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Argentina<\/strong>, 1987 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>George S. Champlin Memorial Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-387\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx034md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-387\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx034md-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx034md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1704\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Argentina<\/strong>, 1982 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>George S. Champlin Memorial Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx032md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-385\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx032md-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx032md\" width=\"635\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Falkland Islands<\/strong>, 1983 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina and the United Kingdom first fought over the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) using stamps. Argentina countered a 1933 Falkland Islands stamp celebrating the centennial of British Administration with a stamp proclaiming its dominion over the islands. In the 1980s both countries issued stamps showing historic maps as evidence of their territorial claims. The 1982 <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/1027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}