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On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, flying from Tel Aviv to Paris, was hijacked shortly after a stopover in Athens. The hijackers diverted the aircraft to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where they were supported by Ugandan forces under...
Liechtenstein 2024 The Chinese New Year is upon us, this year being the Year of the Wood Snake. International designer Tiger Pan combined two traditional Chinese cultural elements for this Liechtenstein stamp sheet - the snake as a sacred animal...
Serbia 2008 For railway enthusiasts 12 December 2009 was a sad day, as EuroNight sleeper train 469 Orient Express left Strasbourg on its final overnight run to Vienna. And so the name Orient Express disappeared from official European railway timetables after 126 years. The first...
Once, long ago, I purchased a book: The Guinness Book of Stamps, Facts & Feats. It stood a little lost in a corner of a bookcase. I noticed it again when I was looking for another book, that’s how it...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXV Olympiad were held in Barcelona in 1992. The residence of the then IOC President J.A. Samaranch was chosen over Amsterdam, Belgrade, Birmingham, Brisbane, and Paris. The ceremonies and athletics took place in the Estadi Olimpic...
A (very) small collecting area in the world of thematic philately is called INTERPOL. But collecting a small theme can also be great fun, and a story can be attached to it. Totally all over the world there are...
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