Visitors to Jersey will undoubtedly notice a number of towers at various sites on the islandʼs coastline. Some are painted to assist with navigation for local shipping, some have been integrated into private houses and others were built upon by the Germans during the Occupation of Jersey.
published October 14th, 2012
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This year the Ascension Island Post Office has released 4 Christmas stamps that illustrate scenes from A Christmas Carol, to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
published October 13th, 2012
Development of the music in Bosnia and Herzegovina, due to economic difficulties, political and cultural isolation from the Western Europe, was very slow. Folk music was transmitted orally and the first tunes for church service were recorded during the 11th and the 12th century.
published October 12th, 2012
Zhao Bosheng (1897-1933), a native of Dongci Town, Cangxian County (in today’s Huanghua), Hebei Province, was a leader of the Ningdu Uprising and a senior commander of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.
published October 11th, 2012
Issue of a regular stamp in the “Il patrimonio artistico e culturale italiano” (Italian Artistic and Cultural Heritage) series dedicated to Fermo Cathedral.
published October 11th, 2012
Grani brought gold from the moor Sigurd hews his sword in anger. Sigurd slayed the serpent Grani brought gold from the moor. All cultures contain echoes of mythical cultural events – some kind of archetypal reflection of our ancestors’ imagination – their culture, ideals, beliefs and attempts to explain the coherence of the Universe, both the spiritual and the tangible level.
published October 5th, 2012
The year 2012 marks the 70th anniversary of “Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” (hereinafter referred to as “Talks”).
published October 4th, 2012
According to Tagalog folklore, Amihan is the first creature to inhabit the universe, along with the gods called Bathala and Aman Sinaya. Amihan is a personification of the Northeast Wind.
published October 2nd, 2012
published October 1st, 2012
The design of the stamp with a face value of HUF 290 is a graphic composition referring to a language family branching from a single stem. The first day cover for the stamp bears the name of the congress in each language belonging to the Finno-Ugric language family and in English.
published September 25th, 2012
Vast in size and with a long history and an age-old culture, China is abundantly endowed with natural and cultural treasures. More than 40 sites in China have been listed on the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
published September 24th, 2012
