On November 7, 2022, PostNL issued 'String Instruments' as personalized stamps. And these instruments come from my favorite museum in The Hague: the Kunstmuseum. Readers know this museum by its older name, the 'Gemeentemuseum,' and it is located in The Hague's Statenkwartier...
On Saturday, December 17, 2022, at 4:00 PM, Morocco and Croatia will play the third-place playoff for the 3rd and 16th spot of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Both teams also played against each other in Group F during the group stage. The result...
Earth Day. An annual day on April 22 with activities aimed at raising awareness of the special nature of the Earth and the life upon it. On this day, attention is drawn in a positive way to global issues surrounding...
The annual 'World Water Day' is an international day dedicated to water on March 22. In 1992, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to designate March 22 every year starting in 1993...
Every year on January 4th, it is 'World Braille Day'. Louis Braille, the inventor of the Braille script, was born on this day. The purpose of 'World Braille Day' is to annually highlight the importance and significance of Braille in the...
We are moving from a standstill to a bit more movement. What was your experience with sudden 'standstill'? And what music goes with it? In this blog, we delve into the beginning of the pandemic: the hotspots in Italy, England, and the Netherlands. The...
More and more countries are issuing COVID-19 tokens. Some designs are original and others predictable. Not all tokens have been confirmed by postal administrations. So watch out for 'HOAX'/fake tokens being offered via the internet. In this 15th blog: China, India, Sri Lanka,...
For the third time, the National Meat-Free Week is being organized from March 9–15, 2020. The second time, in 2019, 57.600 participants took part. Together with 69 partners, people are being called upon to refrain from eating meat for one week. A challenge...
For the purpose of international trade between African countries and Great Britain, there were eight post offices in Morocco which, under the supervision of the main post office in Gibraltar, used British stamps for correspondence. The stamps bore an impression of the...
As a collector of Great Britain's stamps, I have sometimes wondered whether more stamps were issued during King Edward VIII's very short reign than the four for Great Britain itself. With a little research, I found out...
Five hundred years ago, it was possible too. A German noble family originating from Italy that established a postal route between the then Netherlands and Austria. It was the von Thurn und Taxis family who, for two centuries, maintained a city palace...
Many new stamps on a wide variety of subjects appear with great regularity. Below you will find a selection of recently issued stamps from around the world. Serbia recently won the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand....
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles in 1984. No other cities had submitted bids to host these Games. It was the second time Los Angeles hosted the Games, after 1932.
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXI Olympiad were held in Montreal in 1976. Other cities that were candidates to host the Games that year were Moscow and Los Angeles. Moscow was the big favorite for the Games...
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...
Cycling is one of the Olympic sports practiced at the Olympic Games. The sport has been on the program continuously since the first edition of the modern Summer Olympic Games. An Olympic victory is seen worldwide as the most...
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