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Do you like Pi?

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • October 7, 2025

Do you like Pi? Bpost issued five Pi stamps in a sheet on August 25, 2025. A beautiful design by Geert Wille, who incorporated the magical 3,14 into the sheet of 5 stamps. Why are Archimedes and Albert Einstein...

Pi Day March 14, 2021

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • March 17 2021

On Pi Day, March 14, celebrations were held worldwide at various university mathematics departments. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because, in the American date format, March 14 is written as 3/14 and the three-digit approximation for pi is 3,14....

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…