September 20, 2009These days the Korean alphabet is being exported abroad as a possible letterset for nations without their own set of...
September 19, 2009After having bought quite a few specialist catalogs I recently received another compliment to my every growing selection of exile...
August 24, 2009Few exile stamps catalogs must have such an honest name as this one: Latvian non-postal exile stamps is exactly what...
August 21, 2009For a map aficionado having complete sets of cartographical data is fantastic, especially when you can have them for free!...
August 20, 2009While reading an excellent book about the situation in Korea between 1945 and 1950 (“The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A...
August 19, 2009If you are a catholic of a certain age or older you will remember doing “stations of the cross”, a...
August 19, 2009At Dutch schools pupils are always being told that when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 they had an excellent...
August 18, 2009With my specific interest in cartography the first thing I always do whenever I am somewhere is asking for a...
August 16, 2009Amongst the (male) expat population in Korea a new Korean tv series is making inroads: Tamna, the Island apparently finally...
August 12, 2009Sometimes something just needs to be shown once found. When I recently went through all the available maps at the...
August 12, 2009A lot of railways disappeared before 1940, but some disappeared much earlier than that and most of the time without...
August 09, 2009It is rare to find a book about stamps which has just the right combination of being a catalogue and...
August 08, 2009A few years ago I discovered pretty much by accident that NASA World Wind was showing an older series of...
August 06, 2009If being a railfan is somewhat more eccentric today than it was yesterday, narrow gauge railfanning must be even more...
August 03, 2009If you are a fan of railways and cartography, the field of railway cartography must be the best thing there...
July 31, 2009After starting to collect the Polish Exile stamps I decided I needed stamp album pages for these stamps too. The...
July 31, 2009More than ten years ago I read an article in some UK computer magazine which even at that time already...
July 29, 2009There was a time when being labeled a “revisionist” was very dangerous. A lot of executed citizens of the Soviet...
