“That sandwiched aren’t food, and love isn’t hate, that’s all I know for now about sandwiches and love”.
So wrote Danish poet Johan Herman Welsh on the occasion of a social gathering in the 10770’s at which only open sandsiches were served. At that time Danes ate two hot meals a day and sandwiches were regarded as something of a last resort. Bread slices with fat or butter and maybe a little salami were certainly not seen as high style.
published June 11th, 2012
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Amid a sea of smiles, the U.S. Postal Service celebrated the issuance of 125 million new stamps today featuring popular Disney•Pixar characters. The Mail a Smile Forever stamps official First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony took place at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort.
published June 11th, 2012
Sport and Republic of San Marino. The Olympic Games and the philatelic issues of San Marino. Two goals and a long complicity celebrated in the souvenir-sheet designed by M. Fontana and dedicated to the 30th edition of the most famous world sport event.
published June 7th, 2012
Coloured hands as symbol of the various world’s ethnic groups. Joy and happiness to represent jubilation.The Azienda Autonoma di Stato Filatelia e Numismatica di San Marino gave its feed back to the request of PostEurop with a stamp of Paolo Maniglio.
published June 6th, 2012
Royal Mail will issue a special mini-sheet of stamps to coincide with the spectacular opening of the London 2012 Olympic Games on 27 July.
published June 5th, 2012
The remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands are located 2,770 kilometres north-west of Perth in the Indian Ocean and comprise two tropical coral atolls. The southern atoll consists of 26 islands and the uninhabited northern atoll, North Keeling Island, lies 24 kilometres away.
published June 4th, 2012
Our new £10 stamp features ‘Equanimity’, the first official holographic portrait of Her Majesty The Queen created by artist Chris Levine and holographer Rob Munday. The portrait has been re-created using an achromatic digital embossed holographic stereogram created for Jersey Post by Rob Munday at his studios in London.
published June 3rd, 2012
Four extraordinary film directors — Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston and Billy Wilder — received a stamping ovation today with the issuance of the Great Film Directors First-Class Forever stamps.
published June 2nd, 2012
Matariki is celebrated throughout New Zealand, but in the south, Puaka (Rigel, part of the Orion constellation) appears in the sky at the same time as Matariki, and is widely acknowledged.
published June 1st, 2012
Modern Olympic Games are a cultural event, the culmination of the Olympic movement that brings together sportsmen from all the five continents to a great sports festival that unites athletes from all over the world.
published May 31st, 2012
It is now a fix appointment which calls famous players and new talents. A real sport event which lets come in San Marino thousands of people. Un autentico evento sportivo capace di richiamare migliaia di persone sugli spalti dei campi in terra battuta nella Repubblica del Titano.
published May 30th, 2012