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Summertime is ice cream time with lots of flavors!

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • 9 August 2019

It is holiday time again, and if we are to believe the weather gods, it will be a summer with pleasant temperatures. No long heatwave like in 2018. If you are reading this blog, you may well be on holiday yourself. Relaxing at the...

100th anniversary of Charles Darwin's death in 1982

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • September 8 2018

The evolution of species is driven by natural selection. Those were the famous words of Charles Robert Darwin. This scholar, who acquired enormous knowledge through self-study in the fields of biology, natural history, and geology, was born in Shrewsbury...

rob over Hamlet: This is a translation error, which should be corrected by now. If 'Hamlet' is viewed as a word rather than a name, it simply means…

Bate Hylkema over 1951 issue of children's stamps a world first: View this article as an introduction to the article containing special news that will appear shortly. The perspective of… is striking.

rob over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: As a result of the termination of PostNL's sponsorship of Postzegelblog/Freestampagazine, we are currently not archiving/publishing Collect me…

rob over The Faroe Islands have four underwater tunnels.: The majority of the articles, at least those from after 2016, can now simply be found on Freestampmagazine. Everything is now also available in six languages.

Hans over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: The link to the Collect Magazines archive does not work. Hopefully, that is fixable. Kind regards, Hans

Groeneweg over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unfortunately, I have already heard that the funeral mail sent with priority on Monday was not delivered on Tuesday😏 This despite the delivery at the sortery…