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Stamps from around the world, including specialty programs
|and whatever delights my fancy.

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Thematic Series & Competitions

LUNAR NEW YEAR – Year of the Dragon 2024      

Vietnam’s 2024 Tết stamps celebrating the dragon  

Christmas 2024 – Posted Dec. 15. This is a work in progress. As I find stamps, I post them. 


EUROPA 2024 – Underwater fauna & flora 

EUROMED 2024

SEPAC 2024    

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada  


Random Articles
Various articles devoted to specific themes or topics

This Day in stamps
Select picks from the This Day series that have extra details and archival material

The first Penny Blacks sold (UK)   

1963 Doctor Who made his first appearance (UK)  

Pioneer black aviator Bessie Coleman was killed in an air accident  (USA) 

1916 The Quebec Bridge | Pont de Québec collapsed for a second time (Canada)

1959 A tale of two stamps:1st ship entered the St. Lawrence Seaway (Canada/USA) 

1962 Trans-Canada Highway officially (Canada) 

1971 Bangladesh declares independence (Bangladesh)  

1915 French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (France)  

1906 Courrières mining disaster (France)

1909  Louis Blériot conquers the English Channel (France)

1910 World’s first seaplane the Fabre Hydravion flies (France) 

1794 Maximilien Robespierre arrested (France)

1715 Dom Pérignon, dies. But what does that have to do with an American swimmer? (France & USA) 

1899 Count von Zeppelin received a patent for his rigid airship design (Germany) 

1903 – Karl Jatho attempts his first flight (Germany)  

1911 Weimar Constitution was signed (Germany) 

1943 21-year-old Sophie Scholl is executed by the Nazis (Germany)

1862 Claude Debussy was born (Jersey)

1666 Great Fire of London died out after raging 3 days (UK)

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London, England (UK)

 1764 Sailor and notorious mutineer, Christian Fletcher born (Pitcairn Islands)  

1960 Congo’s Patrice Lumumba was arrested by Mobuto Sese Seko’s Belgian and CIA backed coup (DR Congo)  

Australia

Around Australia Flights: 100 Years  

Canada

Canada’s Spring Flowers – 17 years & counting  

France 

Beast of Gévaudan – coming this eventually… just needs to avoid life and work for awhile

Wreck of the Medusa – ditto  

       

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