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The National Footwear Museum in Izegem takes us back to an age when the town's shoes were synonymous with luxury and quality.Izegem's foot-wear industry prospered between 1920 and 1960 and the museum, which…
George Grard (1901-1984) is acknowledged as one of thè greatest Belgian scuiptors.His most famous piece is "La Mer", nicknamed Fat Mathilde, in Ostend's Leopoldpark.The George Grard foundation was later…
Bioko (also spelled Bioco, in Europe traditionally called Fernando Poo or Fernando Po from the period of Portuguese colonization) is an island 32 km off the west coast of Africa, and the northernmost part of…
Ciskei was a nominally independent state – a Bantustan – in the south east of South Africa.
It covered an area of 7,700 square kilometres (3,000 sq mi), almost entirely surrounded by what was then the…
"Pass me a magnifying glass, would you?" Stamp collecting and philately are very specialized areas and it is not the purpose of this article to conduct a definitive study of postage stamps, in…
Mustelids are the largest family of carnivorous mammals, comprising some 70 species, spread across the globe, except for Australia and Antarctica. The family includes stoats, weasels, polecats, bad-gers,…
* Included in thè postage stamps subscription. This year's Christmas and New Year stamp depicts thè centrai stained-glass window of thè Church of St Catherine in Bethlehem. This window shows thè Baby…
Gandhi is the most international of all Indian faces in the world of stamps. Besides India, 80 countries, from Antigua to Zambia, have issued some 250 stamps on the Mahatma. Outside India, it was the United…
1.- Bird stamps from Dominica.
Dominica is an island country in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is 750 square kilometres…