Are you also listening to the final hours of the list of lists: Top 2000. In 2023, this list will be broadcast for the 25th time. It is now a multi-media event compared to the first edition in 1999....
This is no ordinary story, it is pure horror. And even though it is centuries old, it is retold every year with even more suspense, even more gore. It takes place in 1790 in Sleepy Hollow (valley), a settlement...
'Santa Claus is a spiritual pickpocket,' Godfried Bomans once said during a visit to Canada, dressed as Sinterklaas. Santa Claus, who originated in the United States, is a corruption of St. Nicholas that was brought along by the Dutch colonists to...
Would you like something different than just filling in a pre-printed album? Then try starting a so-called 'thematic collection'. Stamps and cancellation marks lend themselves very well to this, and the themes are virtually inexhaustible. As an example, a...
Inspired by a series of articles by K. Kouwenberg that appeared in the monthly magazine Philatelie in the late 1970s, Rob Smit describes the history of stamp collecting anew in biweekly installments. This is part 30, William P. Brown. So far, we have always...
After the Second World War, regular KLM scheduled flight traffic resumed quickly. On May 21, 1946, the first transatlantic flight was operated from Amsterdam to New York. For this occasion, a special stamp was produced that...
Collectors of Canadian stamps know that the Canadian Post is good at issuing unusual shapes of blocks and stamps. This is also true for the stamp issued on January 3, 2003, on the occasion of the Chinese Year of...
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