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Lithuania:Stamps on world Heritage Curonian Spit

Lithuanian issued two stamps on 26th mAY 2012under The World Heritage Objects series  The stamps feature the Curonian Spit.One of the new stamps depicts the dunes of the Curonian Spit, and the second one features an ethnographic fisherman’s homestead in Kopgalys. Each stamp will be issued in the edition of 100 000 copies with the […]

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India:Exclusive collection on Airmail

By Abishek Jalan An Interesting collection on Airmail was recently found in possession of Mr. M. Gulrez.He is a prominent stamp collector residing in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and received Graduate degree in Science from Allahabad University. He works as Publicity Director in Film Industry. The collection shows creativity to its use and gives a whole […]

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Special Cover:60 Years of Capital High School Bhubaneswar

  India Post has released a Special Cover on 60 years of Capital High School Bhubaneswar.The Special Cover was released on 28th April 2012.

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Portugal:The word and the Image Stamp Set

The two words that embody this idea are astounding: Word and Image. For the societies that have inherited age-old Mediterranean cultures, the concept of Sacred Text comprises the actual idea of Religion, Theology and Piety. We talk of ”Religions of the Book” as if the book was the essence of those movements. And, in reality, […]

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India Post Issued a Commemorative Stamp on S Ramanujan

India Post has today issued a Stamp on S Ramanujan .Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. Ramanujan’s own work on partial sums and products of hypergeometric series have led to major development in the topic. His most famous work was on the number p(n) of partitions of an integer […]

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India Post will Issue a Commemorative Stamp on Kavi Pradeep Today

India Post will Issue a commemorative stamp on Kavi Pradeep today.Kavi Pradeep (1915–1998), born Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi, was a renowned poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song,Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo, written as tribute to the soldiers who had died defending the country, during the Sino-Indian War . His first recognition came for his patriotic […]

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Christmas 2011 Stamps :Ascension Island

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Greenland Released Stamps on Mining and Christmas

Greenland Post has issued stamp sets on mining and Christmas.A Booklet on Christmas and annual year pack has also released on 17th Oct 2011. Greenlandic Mining II The two stamp designs have been created by Ina Rosing who, yet again, has been able to combine the historic and the modern in her artwork. Christmas Stamps 2011 This year’s […]

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Faroe Islands:Christmas Carols Stamp

 Faroese Post is releasing the second issue of Christmas carols stamps.The motif of the 6.50 stamp is based on the modern Faroese Christmas classic, ”Eg eri so spent til jola” – ”I can’t wait for Christmas to come.” The music was written by Johannus a Rogvu Joensen and lyrics by Ella Smith Clementsen.The song and […]

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Germany:Stamp on World Heritage Site

German Post has issued a stamp commemorating the Biertan Church, one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.In 1993 the church of Bertan castle has entered in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is still an attraction for tourists from all over the world.Biertan is a rural community in the Transylvanian county of Sibiu. The […]