Magnificent. Large and small stamps in a large sheet. No objection. Not even in combination with personalized stamps. The larger the sheet, the better! Just look at the Belgian sheets from recent years. Many examples in this blog...
PostNL is issuing the personalized Donald Duck 90 Years stamps on June 10, 2024, to mark the birthday of Disney character Donald Duck. Each of the 5 stamps features a different portrait of Donald Duck, with...
On October 16, 1923, brothers Walt and Roy Oliver Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. The company began focusing on the production of animated films. The first really big hit was scored in 1928 with Mickey Mouse....
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...
The Invictus Games is an international sporting event for military personnel and veterans who have sustained psychological or physical injuries in the army. The initiator of the sporting event is British Prince Harry. Originally, the Games were supposed to take place in 2020, but due to...
Unique is the exhibition on view at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam until March 27, 2022, about Walt Disney's life and his influence on architecture worldwide. At the beginning of the exhibition, you see a short CV...
Will the Kinderpostzegels Foundation and PostNL choose the theme '70 years of Donald Duck in the Netherlands' for 2022? After the successful years 2015 (Golden Books), 2016 (Fiep Westendorp), 2017 (Jan, Jans en de kinderen), 2018 (Fabeltjeskrant), 2019 (Historical children's books), 2020 (nijntje 65...
Easter Sunday and Easter Monday will be celebrated this year on Sunday, April 4 and Monday, April 5, 2021. At Easter, Christians commemorate Jesus' resurrection from the dead, after he had died on the cross two days earlier. Easter falls annually between 22...
I am writing this blog at the request of a taxi driver who works in the center of The Hague. His industry is having a very hard time now that life has been at a standstill for nearly a year. Or put in other words: mobility is...
The ox, cow, or bull is the second animal in the twelve-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac according to the Chinese calendar. Character traits according to Chinese astrology: powerful and reliable, a born leader, a hard worker, prefers to take the shortest...
In 2002, it was 150 years since the Great Ormond Street Hospital, specifically for children, opened in London on February 14, 1852. At the time, it had only ten beds and grew into one of the best children's hospitals...
'The Owl of Minerva' received the most votes for the 2019 Provincial Council elections. In the NRC of March 21 and the AD of March 22, the speech (or rather: address) by Thierry Baudet (FVD) was analyzed in its entirety....
Perrault (France) collected folk tales in the 17th century and wrote *Mother Goose Tales*, in which Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb are mentioned for the first time. The illustration for the cruel fairy tale Bluebeard is by Gustave Doré. The German Brothers...
I read it in the newspaper a while ago. The 70th anniversary of Walt Disney's Pinocchio is being celebrated. 'From March 4, just before the 70th anniversary of this overwhelming adventure, Pinocchio will be available again for a limited time.' Really just before the...
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