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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...
Mongolia 1965 The fish depicted on the stamp shown, issued in 1965 by Mongolia, is the Siberian Sturgeon (Acipenser Baeri). Sturgeons are among the largest fish on Earth, can grow up to eight metres long and weigh as much as...
Estonia 2020 Estonia became independent from Russia in 1918 and first competed as a nation at the VII Olympiad, the 1920 Summer Olympic Games held in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2020 Estonia issued a special pure silver stamp to celebrate the 100th anniversary...
Yugoslavia 1994 Ship in a Bottle booklet As a child I was always fascinated by the puzzle of how it was possible to place a quite sizeable model of a ship inside a narrow-necked bottle. One of my uncles, an...
PainI plead ignorance! I love art in all its forms but confess that until I visited museums in what was previously known as The (Communist) Eastern Bloc, I was quite unaware of the many wonderful artists to be found in...
The southernmost province of Austria, Carinthia, is a popular holiday destination. The climate here is almost Mediterranean. The state encompasses many lakes and mountains and has a beautiful capital east of Lake Wörthersee, Klagenfurt. Carinthia has a turbulent history. Until...
New stamps appear regularly with a variety of subjects. Below is a selection of recently-published stamps from around the globe. In Turkey, this stamp was issued to draw attention to wastage. Literally translated, it states: "Do not waste bread". During...
During the occupation years of the Second World War, the Dutch flag remained the national flag with the permission of the German government, but its use was severely restricted. Most people kept the flag for better times. But in 1943...
The popularity of the sport of Association Football, more commonly known nowadays as football or soccer, grows and grows. Today the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup tournament is the biggest single-event sporting competition in the world and...
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