Below you will find articles about Brazil. Or click here to view stamps with the subject Brazil in the catalog.
In this new column, we will regularly highlight a Dutch subject found on one or more foreign stamps. We begin this column with an interesting issue. It concerns the Brazilian 430 réis stamp from 1961, issued ter...
Panama 1967 Hummingbirds can be found in North America, Central America, South America and many islands of the Caribbean Sea. According to the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU), the hummingbird family has 366 species and 112 genera, mostly south of the...
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...
India 2003 India has made many interesting collaborations with other countries regarding joint issues. In 2003 a joint issue with South Korea featured the Cheomseongdae Observatory, built during the reign of Queen Seondeok (632-647), a great landmark in Gyeongju, capital...
Coffee is second only to oil as the most-traded commodity in the world. As mentioned in the previous article, Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Coffee is also an important agricultural product for the economy of...
Was the first Mr. Bean actually a ninth-century Ethiopian goatherd Named Kaldi? There is a fabled story that he discovered coffee when he noticed how excited his goats became after eating the beans from a coffee plant. It is now estimated...
Now the 21st football World Cup Championship is well under way let’s take a look at some stamps from the past celebrating the event. The winner of the first competition, held in 1930, was Uruguay. In 2005, 75 years after...
The above stamp was issued by Hungary in 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hungarian Grand Prix for Formula 1 racing cars. As with so many stamps, there is a historical significance attached to that particular issue. In...
It is now almost fifty years ago, and sometimes you still hear older Germans say: we won, but the referee let England win! England hosted the football World Cup in 1966. That England...
Every now and then, you have to rummage through the boxes of mail again to be able to write an article. That is how I came across the postcard that was sent on October 16, 1985, from the city of Mosselbaai or Mosselbay on the...
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