People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen), also referred to as Democratic Yemen or Yemen (Aden), was a country that existed from 1967 to 1990 as a state in the Middle East in the southern and eastern provinces of the present-day Republic of Yemen, including the island of Socotra. South…
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Colony of Aden
The Colony of Aden was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963 located in the south of contemporary Yemen. It consisted of the port of Aden and its immediate surroundings. Prior to 1937, Aden had been governed as part of British India (originally as the Aden Settlement subordinate to…
View More Colony of AdenThematic: Zoology
Zoology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. See also Conchology Cynology Felinology Herpetology Hippology Ichthyology Mammalogy Marine Biology Ornithology World Wildlife Fund Animals…
View More Thematic: ZoologyAscension Island
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, of which the main island, Saint Helena. The island is named after the day of its…
View More Ascension IslandCape Juby
Cape Juby (Cabo Juby) is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near the border with Western Sahara, directly east of the Canary Islands. Its surrounding area, called the Cape Juby Strip or Tarfaya Strip, while making up presently the far south of Morocco, makes up a semi-desert buffer…
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Spanish Sahara (Sahara EspaƱol), officially the Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was occupied and ruled by Spain between 1884 and 1976. It had been one of the most recent acquisitions of the Spanish Empire…
View More Spanish SaharaStamp Chats: Golden Eagles: Charles Lindberg and Amelia Earhart
American Philatelic Society member Hal Turner presents this visually striking presentation of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. In this program, Turner is able to take the listener on a journey of what it was like to be a pilot in the early days of flight. These American explorers helped to…
View More Stamp Chats: Golden Eagles: Charles Lindberg and Amelia EarhartCollecting: First Day Covers
A first day of issue cover or First Day Cover (FDC) is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for use within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority. Sometimes the issue is made from a…
View More Collecting: First Day CoversStamp Chats: Graham Beck – “The Making of Exploring Stamps”
The American Philatelic Society‘s guest is Graham Beck, creator and producer of the YouTube series, Exploring Stamps. In this talk, Beck shares the ins and outs of production and lessons learned. Both encouraging and pragmatic, Graham offers a candid look into three seasons of creating the series; the good, the…
View More Stamp Chats: Graham Beck – “The Making of Exploring Stamps”British Library’s Philatelic Collections: From Music to Meme
This short by the British Library’s Philatelic Collections online lecture discusses the way national anthems are incorporated and depicted in stamp designs to help construct an underlying, non-extremist & endemic type of identity which the Sociologist Michael Billig terms ‘Banal Nationalism.’ In doing so stamps are highlighted to be an…
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