Cricket 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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Taekwondo, Tae Kwon Do or Taekwon-Do is a Korean martial art, characterized by punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques. The literal translation for tae kwon do is “kicking,” “punching,” and “the art or way of.” It is a martial art…
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South Korean martial art Taekwondo controversial Beijing kick depicted in Postage Stamp promoting London Olympic Games.
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A stamp depicting England’s proudest sporting achievement, their victory in the 1966 Soccer World Cup. There is also an interesting story about the issuing of these stamps, as collectors desperately tried to get their hands on them thinking they were priceless.
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Join the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria as they look at the Queen’s Men Gubernatorial Frank Stamps.
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Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae. Two extant and six extinct species are recognised. Of the six extinct species, five became extinct in the Quaternary extinction event. Bison palaeosinensis evolved in the Early Pleistocene in South Asia, and was the evolutionary ancestor of…
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Vikings is the modern name given to seafaring Norse pirates from southern Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden) who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe. They also voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East,…
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Howdy everyone! Today I’ll Be Stamped begins in the United States of America but he will soon be in Antarctica. This stamp came in a grab bag of 200 used US stamps for only $1.00.
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Join I’ll Be Stamped for his first video! Today he will learn about a stamp from Ethiopia that only cost him around $2.00! The man we will learn about is Ras Tafari Makonnen (Haile Selassie, and we will learn about that name change ), who is on the stamp, the…
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In this episode, StampCat looks at these postage stamps from Bulgaria featuring Old Ancient Trees.
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