LIBERTÉ! Ary Scheffer & French Romanticism is currently on view at the Dordrechts Museum until March 23, 2025. This exhibition takes you back to turbulent Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century, a...
For the sixth time, the National Week Without Meat and Dairy is being organized from March 6–12, 2023. Together with 65 partners, there is a call to eat no meat and no dairy for one week. A challenge for everyone who still...
Johan Cruyff (1947-2016) would have turned seventy-five on April 25, 2022. Perhaps the greatest Dutch footballer of all time is still remembered worldwide as a phenomenon. In this blog, we pay special attention to 'Number 14'. Johan Cruyff on stamps...
On February 17, 2017, I wrote my first blog. We are now in April 2021, and this is my 200th stamp blog. A wonderful initiative by Postbeeld and its predecessor to develop Postzegelblog. I also thank Rob, Michel, and Ingrid,...
Worldwide, a total of approximately 25 million coronavirus cases have been registered. The pandemic has killed more than 810.000 people. COVID-19 has now also reached the continent of Africa via a detour. The countries were sometimes prepared for the coronavirus through a complete lockdown...
Italy was the first European country where COVID-19 infections were detected. COVID-19 was rampant in the winter sports areas of Northern Italy. Fortunately, Italy's borders are now open again to Schengen countries. The 24th blog is an ode to Italy....
Coffee is second only to oil as the most-traded commodity in the world. As mentioned in the previous article, Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Coffee is also an important agricultural product for the economy of...
Today is the 110th anniversary of the first distribution to medical practitioners of the drug Aspirin. The active ingredient of Aspirin was first discovered from the bark of the willow tree in 1763 by Edward Stone of Wadham College, Oxford...
The XIX Summer Olympic Games were held in Mexico City in 1968. The decision by the IOC in 1963 during its congress in Baden-Baden to award the Games to Mexico City caused quite a stir in the...
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