Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state takes its name from the nearby Delaware River named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia’s first colonial governor. Before its coastline was explored by Europeans in the 16th century,…
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Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word “Connecticut” is derived from various anglicized spellings of “Quononoquett (Conanicut),” a Mohegan-Pequot word for “long tidal river”. Connecticut’s first European settlers…
View More United States of America: ConnecticutColorado is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. The word “Colorado” comes from the Spanish word for “colored red.” The region has been inhabited by Native Americans for more than 13,000 years, with the Lindenmeier Site containing artifacts dating from approximately 9200 BCE to…
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Arkansas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. Previously part of French Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase, the Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the Union…
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Arizona is a state in the Western United States. Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in…
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Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. The driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since early times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups,…
View More NamibiaSouth West Africa (Suidwes Afrika) was the name for modern-day Namibia when it was under South African administration, from 1915 to 1990. Previously the colony of German South West Africa from 1884–1915, it was made a League of Nations mandate of the British-ruled Union of South Africa following Germany’s defeat…
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German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. German rule over this territory was punctuated by numerous rebellions by its native African peoples, which culminated…
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Learn the story behind the stamp that started it all for me, as well as the history behind the events at Fort Sumter.
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An in depth look at postage stamp forgeries and fakes and the difference between the many types of bogus postage stamps in existence. Presented by Harry Pedersen – former President of the Arapahoe Stamp Club in Denver Colorado.
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