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July 5 is Algeria’s Independence Day! 1st Anniversary of Algeria’s Independence Issued in 1963 by the Algerian post office Designer: Ali Ali-Khodja After a bitter 8 year war, Algeria shed it’s 132 ...
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On July 14 of that year, a Paris mob – hungry from a poor harvest and angry at the king and government for their suffering – stormed the Bastille prison, ...
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On June 11. 1644, Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli wrote to his friend Michelangelo Ricci describing his new invention, a mercury barometer. I have already called attention to certain ...
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The Netherlands buried Queen Willemina on December 8, 1962 at Nieuwe Kerk, Delft. Born August 31 1880, Willemina was Queen for fifty-eight years. She became Queen in 1890, on the death of her father.
Johann Voldemar Jannsen, writer, journalist and poet was born May 16, 1819. The son of a miller and an innkeeper, Jannsen went on to become an important figure in the Estonian Age of Awakening. Birth ...
The Europa 2021 Endangered Wildlife issues offer a stunning array of bugs, birds 'n mammals to round up. Any collector of animals on stamps will be in ...
Nigerian poet and novelist, Professor Chinua Achebe published his seminal work Things Fall Apart on June 17, 1958. The book would go on to be translated into 45 languages and sell 8 million copies ...
Well, this was fun! Curaçao 2022 season started with 6 tigers for the Lunar New Year. Marcel van Duijneveldt, designer of last year's Ox stamps, returned for ...