Below you will find articles about Tanzania. Or click here to view stamps with the subject Tanzania in the catalog.
An extremely popular event is held each year in the period between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day in The Netherlands. A radio station, NPO Radio 2, hosts a week-long programme playing what listeners vote to be the best 2,000...
In many warm countries the colourful shirts on the stamps below are common attire for men. Many other men living in cooler climes may have one or two of these spectacularly-decorated items of clothing sitting in their wardrobes, waiting for...
Following the recently published Freddie Mercury article and having just heard the Queen song 'Bicycle Race' on the radio, I sought out some Bicycle-themed stamps. And there are hundreds! Without doubt one of man's greatest inventions, it is estimated that...
North Korea recently issued a few stamps that caught our attention. The first, pictured here, showing a group of seemingly happy, sportily-clad children flocking admiringly around the great leader Kim Jong-un. Such a scene on a North Korean stamp is...
Recently, several stamps appeared in North Korea that caught my attention; they depicted seemingly happy children whom the great leader Kim Jong-un was gazing at with admiration. Such a scene on a North Korean stamp is in itself not...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXVI Olympiad were held in Atlanta in 1996. These games are also known as the Centennial Games because they took place exactly a century after the first modern Olympic Games in Greece in 1896. Atlanta...
The Summer Olympic Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in Seoul in 1988. The Seoul Games were a great success. After the three previous Games had each been hit by a major boycott, nearly 160 countries were present in Seoul...
In 1954, Amsterdam was the first non-French starting point for the Tour de France. In 1973, Scheveningen was the starting point for the Tour. Leiden followed in 1978, and in 1996 it was 's-Hertogenbosch. This year is the...
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...
The name Uhuru is a familiar concept to reggae music lovers, associated with the Jamaican band from Kingston, Black Reggae. But I also came across this name on a few stamps from Zanzibar. For stamp collectors, the island of Zanzibar (with...
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