Te reo Māori is an official language of Aotearoa New Zealand. Since 1975, New Zealand has celebrated an annual Māori Language Week, with seven days focused on its revitalisation. $1.40 Aroha Love, affection, respect, compassion, empathy. Aroha is best understood when it is broken down into its component parts, ARO – ‘take notice of ’ […]
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The opening of the Ceneri Base Tunnel in December 2020 will mark the completion of the New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA), turning the long-held dream of a at rail link through the Alps into reality.The NRLA provides Switzerland with modern, high-performance rail infra- structure on Europe’s north-south corridor – and an environmentally-friendly alternative […]
The two stamps, which are like business cards of Taiwan, tell a great story of how people in this nation have been working hard to successfully contain the spread of the pandemic. Thanks to their collective efforts, Taiwan also ranked first in a Bloomberg Economics list, which evaluated 75 economies around the globe according to […]
Stamps depicts Glaucidium passerinum (Linnaeus, 1758) – Eurasian Pygmy-owl, Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) , Athene cunicularia (Molina, 1782) – Burrowing Owl and Ninox theomacha (Bonaparte, 1855) Issue Date:12.08.2020 Designer:Razvan Popescu Process:Offset Colours:4 Colours Size:Stamp size: 36 x 36 mm; Block size: 120 x 120 mm ( in philatelic folder) Minisheet of 5 stamps + 1 label: […]
250th Anniversary of Beethoven The Stamp features the Beethoven monument which was unveiled on 12 August 1845, in honour of the 75th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Issue Date:21.07.2020 Designer:The Potting Shed Printer:Southern Colour Print Process:Offset Lithography Size:40mm deep x 30mm wide 100th Anniversary of Rupert Bear Originally created by artist and illustrator Mary Tourtel, […]
On the morning of May 1, 1995, Croatian military and police forces launched a lightning operation to liberate the previously occupied areas of western Slavonia. The operation began with an attack by Croatian forces on the southern and central part of the West Slavonian occupied territory from the direction of Novska and Nova Gradiška with […]
Europa 2020:Ancient Postal Routes During three centuries (1571-1878) of Ottoman occupation of Cyprus the town of Larnaka was the centre of commerce and the abode of the consular corps. Correspondence was minimal and any mail was hand carried by a ship’s captain.The first ottoman post office opened in Lefkosia in 1871, and the first postal […]
International Pride Day The famous rainbow flag originated in San Francisco. It was designed by Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist at the end of the 1970s. The original design had eight colours: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue and purple. There are various ideas about the meaning of the colours in […]
Sea Life Issue Date:01.07.2020 Printer:Joh. Enschede Security Printers Flowers Issue Date:01.07.2020 Printer:Joh. Enschede Security Printers Butterflies Issue Date:01.07.2020 Printer:Joh. Enschede Security Printers Birds Issue Date:01.07.2020 Printer:Joh. Enschede Security Printers
Australia issued stamps on famous TV cartoon series Bluey. The stamps created by Joe Brumm, Bluey and produced by the Emmy award-winning Ludo Studio for ABC KIDS .