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2025 stamp programs
2025 stamp programs 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 Snake 2025
Vietnam’s 2025 Tết stamp – Enter the Snake
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EUROPA 2025 – National Archaeological Discoveries
PostEUROP – a bit of winter 2025 stamp news
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
January 5 – Margaret Laurence & her battle with censors
February 3 – 1916 saw the Canadian Parliament buildings destroyed
February 7 – Viennese modernist painter Gustav Klimt died
February 17 – 1911, the world’s first official airmail was delivered in India
February 22 – Sophie Scholl is executed by Nazi government
March 2 – King Kong ROARS to the silver screen
March 7 – 1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
March 14 – von Zeppelin received a patent for his airship
March 26 – Bangladesh declares independence
April 7 – Canadian politician and Father of Confederation, Thomas D’Arcy McGee was assassinated
April 13 – Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide
April 30 – Pioneer black aviator Bessie Coleman was tragically killed in an air accident
May 1 – The world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, sold
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