Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck looks at a historic space mission featuring unprecedented cooperation between Russia and the USA through postal history.
View More Exploring Stamps: Season 2/Ep.18 – Apollo Soyuz Mission StampsAuthor: James Gavin
Thematic: Polar Regions
The polar regions, also called the frigid zones, of Earth are the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles. These high latitudes are dominated by floating sea ice covering much of the Arctic ocean in the north, and…
View More Thematic: Polar RegionsThematic: Oenology
Oenology is the science and study of wine and winemaking; distinct from viticulture, the agricultural endeavours of vine-growing and of grape-harvesting. An oenologist is an expert in the fields comprehended by the “Viticulture and Oenology” designation for oenology-training programmes and research centres that include schooling, training, and education in the…
View More Thematic: OenologyThematic: Diseases – Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death. Symptoms usually begin ten to fifteen days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. If…
View More Thematic: Diseases – MalariaExploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.15 – India Gnat Stamp
Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck explores India honoring their Folland Gnat fighter jets on a stamp. These planes played a key role in the Indo-Pakistani war over Kashmir of 1965.
View More Exploring Stamps: Season 1/Ep.15 – India Gnat StampExploring Stamps: Season 3/Ep.4 – Zeppelin/Airship Stamps
Zeppelins and airships have made their way onto stamps since their golden era in the early 1900s. Exploring Stamps‘ Graham Beck takes a trip to Lakehurst, New Jersey to learn about the Hindenburg and the various stamps depicting the iconic airship and the famous Graf Zeppelin.
View More Exploring Stamps: Season 3/Ep.4 – Zeppelin/Airship StampsThematics: Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3500 to 3000 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped…
View More Thematics: ScienceThematic: Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. Played by millions of people worldwide, chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga sometime before the 7th century. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the…
View More Thematic: ChessThematic: Science – Computer Science
Computer science is the study of computation and information. Computer science deals with theory of computation, algorithms, computational problems and the design of computer systems hardware, software and applications. Computer science addresses both human-made and natural information processes, such as communication, control, perception, learning and intelligence especially in human-made computing…
View More Thematic: Science – Computer ScienceThematic: Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the exchange of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that feasible with the human voice, but with a similar scale of expediency. This excludes…
View More Thematic: Telecommunication