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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...
Portugal 2006 The year 2006 was declared the International Year of Deserts and Desertification by the United Nations General Assembly. Several countries issued stamps that year in an effort to raise awareness of the problem of increased desertification in the world. In the...
This 2 Rials Ajman single value is part of a stamp series released on December 15, 1968 in honour of gold medallists at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. This particular stamp is dedicated to the man who won the...
I imagine postal authorities worldwide would be rather apprehensive nowadays to issue stamps on the subject of tobacco, unless they were using the medium to discourage people from smoking - as seen with the 2006 World Day Without Tobacco stamp...
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...
Many new stamps on a wide variety of subjects appear with great regularity. Below you will find a selection of recently issued stamps from around the world. Croatia has issued a stamp in honor of the Paralympic Committee. In Qatar, this is...
On September 12, 1997, Mexico and Ireland made a joint stamp issue commemorating the 150 Anniversary of the Irish volunteers who fought for Mexico in the Mexican American War, 1846-1847. It was a war that nowadays seems long-forgotten. Bearing in...
The XIX Summer Olympic Games were held in Mexico City in 1968. The decision by the IOC in 1963 during its congress in Baden-Baden to award the Games to Mexico City caused quite a stir in the...
Skeletons have been quite in the news lately. First came the report that a skeleton at a school in New Zealand turned out to be made of real human bones. A week later, it was about a skeleton again. In a te...
Correos de México (formerly Servicio Postal Mexicano (Sepomex)) is the national postal service of Mexico. A historical look back: on February 17, 1907, the President of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, founded the "Palacio Postal" (Post Palace), also known as the "Quinta Casa de...
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