Play Your Cards Right
Monaco 1976 The card game Bridge is one of the most popular games in the world. Biritch, or Russian Whist, is thought by some to be forerunner of the modern game. Bridge clubs and federations are to be found worldwide...
Spain
They Didn’t Need Google Maps! (Part Two)
I’ve long been fascinated by the incredible feats of the brave and extremely tough men who set off from Europe and Scandinavia in search of fabled lands. It’s possible that those featured in this article were preceded by unknown explorers...
Pablo Picasso
The Spanish Civil War had a dramatic effect on the artist Pablo Picasso’s outlook on life. Not having previously been a man interested in politics, the 1936 Franco uprising in Spain was an event that dragged him out of this...
Bohemian Rhapsody yet again! (PART TWO)
In this second part of the story we provide an analysis of the song Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie Mercury never really gave a clear explanation about the meaning of the song’s lyrics. The text contains many philosophical and religious elements. According...
It’s Christmas
It’s that time of year again and history tells us that the often-repeated message churned out during the Christmas holiday period, wishing for ‘Peace on Earth’, will never happen. My negativity was aroused when searching for appropriate stamps for this...
Money matters
As I write the euro is the official currency of 19 of the current 28 member states of the European Union and also some of the territories of the Union. This group of states is known as the eurozone or...
The Tortoise or the Hare?
Naturally, the ease with which one can communicate with people worldwide via email and other modern instant messaging systems has its advantages, but these methods have caused a great decline in the act of physically writing a letter and sending...
You Saxy Beast
In 2014 the town of Dinant, and particularly the ”Association Internationale A. Sax”, celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax. Dinant is a city in Belgium on the banks of the Meuse...
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Oscar de la Renta (seen above), who died in October 2014 aged 82, was one of the world's leading fashion designers for more than 50 years. And his work has been commemorated by the United States Postal Service with a...
New Stamps (11)
New stamps appear regularly with a variety of subjects. Below is a selection of recently-published stamps from around the globe. Many of you are probably aware of Great Britain’s recent ‘Star Wars’stamps release and on December 17th, with a limited...
Spain issues stamp Isaac Peral y Caballero and his submarine
On the 125th Anniversary of the launching of the Peral submarine, a stamp will be put into circulation which reproduces the portrait of Isaac Peral, inventor of the submarine that appears beside him. Isaac Peral y Caballero (Cartagena, 1851 –...
