Royal Mail has announced that six Special Stamps to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain will be issued on 16 July.The Battle of Britain took place over the summer and autumn of 1940 and saw the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe contest the world’s first independent and decisive air campaign in the […]
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Singapore 2015 World Stamp Exhibition This is a joint issue between New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. And as 2015 marks the 50th year of Independence and the 150th year of Wellington as New Zealand’s capital city, the exhibition first day cover features all three country’s parliament buildings. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Six stamps in this […]
Kite-flying, one of Filipinos’ favorite hobbies, is celebrated in the second quarter topical stamps issued by the Philippine Postal Corp. PHLPost said the stamps feature the “Saranggola,” which are usually made of bamboo sticks and plastic bags. According to PHLPost, this series of stamps will have 10 designs, with the kites “in upward position flying […]
During the Korean War, Lt Col James Power Carne led 700 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment against more than 10,000 Chinese in the Battle of Imjin River in 1951.He was eventually captured and spent 19 months in solitary confinement, and was later awarded the Victoria Cross.He is depicted on one of 10 stamps issued to […]
Canada Post issued five stamps celebrating extraordinary Canadian locations whose rugged grandeur and cultural impact have earned global recognition as UNESCO World Heritage sites.Included is Canada’s newest UNESCO World Heritage site, the Red Bay Basque Whaling Station, located along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Strait of Belle Isle. There, in the 16th century, European […]
50th Anniversary of the First Spacewalks On July 2nd, 2015 Kyrgyz Express Post (KEP) is issuing the souvenir sheet “50th Anniversary of the First “Spacewalks”.In 1965 the first ever extravehicular activity was performed. The first ever heroes to perform this activity were the Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Alexey Leonov and the American astronaut Edward White. The KEP […]
Aleksander Warma (Varma) * 22.06.1890 in the Viinistu village, Kõnnu rural municipality, Harju County † 23.12.1970 in Stockholm Prime Minister in duties of the President 30.03.1963-23.12.1970 1924-1926, assistant to the jurisconsult of the Ministry of Defence, later codificator. In 1926-1927 Director of the legal bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1931 later Director of […]
Issue Date:7 January 2015,Width:45 mm,Height:35 mm,Perforation 13.5 by 13.5,Printer:Talleres de Valores Fiscales del Ministerio de Hacienda
Estonia: European U23 Championships in Track and Field Athletics One of the major track and field events in Europe in 2015 – the tenth U23 championships – will bring to the historical Kadriorg stadium in Tallinn in the period from 9 to12 July about a thousand track and field athletes of up to 23 years […]
The theme for this year’s SEPAC (Small European Postal Administration Cooperation) issue is ‘Culture’. The Maltese Islands can boast of a rich and diverse cultural heritage, which is the result of millennia of interaction that the Maltese people had throughout the ages with diverse civilisations and societies. Today our culture may be defined as Latin […]