The Independent State of Rainbow Creek was an Australian secessionist micronation active during the 1970s and 80s, located in Cowwarr, a town on the Thomson River in the Victorian Alps. It was founded on 23 July 1979 by Thomas Barnes in protest of alleged incompetence by the Government of Victoria…
View More Independent State of Rainbow CreekNew Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Owing to their remoteness, the islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable lands to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori…
View More New ZealandIceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and the most sparsely populated country in Europe. According to the ancient manuscript Landnámabók, the settlement of Iceland began in 874 AD when the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfr Arnarson became the first permanent settler on the island. In the following…
View More IcelandPhotography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as…
View More Thematic: PhotographyBermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Though typically referred to in the singular, Bermuda has 181 islands; the largest of these being Main Island. Bermuda was discovered in the early 1500s by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez. Bermuda had no indigenous population when it was…
View More BermudaThe Panama Canal Zone (Zona del Canal de Panamá), was a territory inside of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending 5 miles (8.1 km) on each side of the centerline (but excluding Panama City and Colón, which otherwise would have fallen in part within the…
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For those who like to collect stamps on stamps! Blogs Stampodium Stamps on Stamps Websites Stamps on Stamps Collectors Club Stamps on Stamps Italian Group
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Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galápagos penguin, found north of the Equator. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most penguins feed on…
View More Thematic: Ornithology – PenguinsThe Scout movement, also known as Scouting or the Scouts, is a voluntary non-political educational movement for young people. Although it requires an oath of allegiance to a nation’s leaders and, in some countries, to a god, it otherwise allows membership without distinction of gender, race or origin in accordance…
View More Thematic: ScoutingCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at…
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