I recently came across an interesting piece of mail. It was an envelope addressed to an address in Rotterdam. The stamp bore the date 13-5-1940; at that time, the German invasion of the Netherlands was in full swing. On the front...
Nikola Tesla. One of his most important inventions was the alternating current generator. The energy generated by it made it possible to transport electricity over longer distances with a much higher power output than the direct current grid of Thomas Edison, which was common at the time. Edison...
The presidential elections began in America today, and it promises to be a neck-and-neck race if we are to believe the media. Various stamps featuring the winner will undoubtedly be issued. Should Hillary Clinton become president, then she is the...
Over time, many millions of packages have been sent, the contents of many of which we will never know. However, we do know that the contents of some have been very peculiar. Here are a few examples. Children in the mail...
Fans of the band Queen might light a candle and commemorate singer Freddie Mercury today, as he would have turned 70. Mercury was born on September 5, 1946, in Stonetown (then Zanzibar) as Farrokh Bulsara. He...
Three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali passed away last week at the age of 74. He is considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time, with 56 victories out of 61 matches. In addition to his boxing achievements, Ali was known for his...
On May 28, a toddler slipped through the enclosure of the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo and ended up meters below, among the gorillas. Harambe, the 17-year-old silverback who was imprisoned there, paid for this with his life...
You know the kind of stamps that make you think: "how do they come up with this?". Stamps with such bad designs that you wonder if someone had to bribe someone to get them printed on a stamp. Take a look at a few here...
Believe it or not, wars between countries have been fought using postage stamps! Although it has been quite quiet on the stamp front lately, we only need to go back to the year 1932 to find a real stamp war...
Where people work, mistakes are made, and the same applies to the design of stamps. So many stamps have been issued with design flaws or errors of other kinds that it has become a collecting field in itself. Here are a few examples of stamps where it is not...
When it gets dark earlier in the evening, the children start to get a bit nervous and shopkeepers spontaneously start advertising in rhyme. Saint Nicholas is the cause of this. But what is the story with the good holy man, really? What do we know...
Recently, several stamps appeared in North Korea that caught my attention; they depicted seemingly happy children whom the great leader Kim Jong-un was gazing at with admiration. Such a scene on a North Korean stamp is in itself not...
Science fiction is a popular genre of books, television series, and feature films. For many people, it is also a fun subject to build a thematic stamp collection with. Over time, there have been many beautiful stamps featuring this...
The first stamp depicting an automobile is the American Michel No. 134 from 1901, from the stamp series for the Pan-American World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York. The automobile on the stamp is a so-called 'Electric...
April 14 is a date on which several historical events took place. Here you will find a selection I have made, illustrated by stamps. It is nice to see how you can easily bring history and stamps together! 1865 American President Lincoln...
A new series of stamps from Monaco was recently released featuring a scene from the Tintin story 'The Treasure of Rackham the Red'. This stamp was issued in honor of the third Tintin album being published in the Monegasque language. In addition to...
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