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January 20, 2013While reading an excellent book about the situation in Korea between 1945 and 1950 (“The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A...
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January 12, 2013Sometimes something just needs to be shown once found. When I recently went through all the available maps at the...
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September 20, 2012These days the Korean alphabet is being exported abroad as a possible letterset for nations without their own set of...
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September 19, 2012After having bought quite a few specialist catalogs I recently received another compliment to my every growing selection of exile...
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August 24, 2012Few exile stamps catalogs must have such an honest name as this one: Latvian non-postal exile stamps is exactly what...
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August 21, 2012For a map aficionado having complete sets of cartographical data is fantastic, especially when you can have them for free!...
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August 19, 2012If you are a catholic of a certain age or older you will remember doing “stations of the cross”, a...
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August 18, 2012With my specific interest in cartography the first thing I always do whenever I am somewhere is asking for a...
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July 31, 2012After starting to collect the Polish Exile stamps I decided I needed stamp album pages for these stamps too. The...
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July 29, 2012A few years ago I bought the Tuva 2000 Stamp Catalogue, a small but very colorful catalogue full of stamps...
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April 19, 2012At Dutch schools pupils are always being told that when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 they had an excellent...
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August 03, 2010If you are a fan of railways and cartography, the field of railway cartography must be the best thing there...
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August 16, 2009Amongst the (male) expat population in Korea a new Korean tv series is making inroads: Tamna, the Island apparently finally...
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August 12, 2009A lot of railways disappeared before 1940, but some disappeared much earlier than that and most of the time without...
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August 09, 2009It is rare to find a book about stamps which has just the right combination of being a catalogue and...
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August 08, 2009A few years ago I discovered pretty much by accident that NASA World Wind was showing an older series of...
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August 06, 2009If being a railfan is somewhat more eccentric today than it was yesterday, narrow gauge railfanning must be even more...
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July 31, 2009More than ten years ago I read an article in some UK computer magazine which even at that time already...
