Albert Schweitzer
Mali 1965 This article focuses on a man who achieved great things in his life - Albert Schweitzer. He was born 14 January 1875 in the small town of Kaysersberg in Alsace, a town that in 1871 had become part of...
Mali
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The Domino Effect
Mayotte 2004 It is commonly thought that the game of Dominoes originated in China in the 13th Century. There is a theory that a form of the game reached Europe in the 18th century via Italian missionaries. Nowadays the game...
Stamp Errors, Part 6 – The False Staff of Asclepius
Chad 1969 A pair of stamps issued by the Republic of Chad in 1969 commemorated the travels of two German explorers of the continent of Africa. The right-hand stamp has a portrait of 19th century German explorer Heinrich Barth (1821-1865)...
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...
Ugly stamps
You have possibly seen certain stamps and wondered: “Who gave the authority for these stamps to be released?” Stamps whose design or illustration is so poor that you think they might even make an amusingly-collectible topic. The king of ugly...
Ugly stamps
You know the kind of stamps that make you think: "how do they come up with this?". Stamps with such bad designs that you wonder if someone had to bribe someone to get them printed on a stamp. Take a look at a few here...
Charles Darwin on stamps
Charles Robert Darwin, British naturalist and author of Origin of Species, died on April 19th, 1882 at the age of 73. His five-year scientific research voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist and publication of his journal...
John Lennon on stamps
On December the 8th, 1980, I was driving home from my office in London when the newscaster on the BBC radio station I was listening too made an announcement that so shocked me that I drove through a red light...
Cycling . . . in Africa!
The number of cycling events in the world is too many to describe in a single article. Nevertheless, I enjoy being able to provide a picture from around the globe. That is certainly possible per continent. Will you cycle boundlessly with me?...
