Malta - Year of Planet Earth

Year 2008 was designated by the UN as International Year of Earth Planet. Malta has issued a special stamp to commemorate the Year. The stamp was launched on August 11 ,2008.

Malta - Year of Planet Earth

Another country which has stamps issued to commemorate yhe IYPE is Spain.

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Jordan - Dead Sea Scroll

Jordan - Dead Sea Scroll (1965)


Jordan has issued a stamp depicting image of Dead Sea Scroll. The stamp was issued on Setember 23, 1965. The Dead Sea Scroll was found by a young Bedouin sepherds in 1947. Read about it - here.

More stamps with interesting themes are available here - graphic-stamps.org . Stamps on topics such as papyrus, Qur'an, famous printed books etc were catalogued.

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Cuba - 1st Cuban Astronaut

Cuba - The 1st Cuban-Soviet space flight (1980)

Cuba has join the cosmonaut fray quite early. The first Cuban-Soviet space flight was launched in 1980 . The ceremony was remembered by the issuing of a commemorative stamp. Tamayo-Mendez was the first Cuban astronaut. He joined Soyuz 38 space flight with a Soviet astronaut Romanenko on September 18,1980. He was also recognized as the first black man into space.

More stamps from Cuba are available - here. Read also about many other the first in space - here (spacetoday).

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Tunisia - Abidine Mosque

Tunisia: El-Abidine Mosque, Carthage (2004)

El-Abidine Mosque was built at Carthage. The mosque is one of Tunisian leader (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali) presidential project. Abidine ruled Tunisia since November 1987. The building of El-Abidine Mosque providing for Muslem Carthage a high place for worship and theological research, and also forming also a masterpiece of Arab Muslim Art. A Tunisia stamp depicting the image of Abidine Mosque was issued on November 11, 2004.

A real image of Abidine Mosque (Source - structurae)

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Oman - White Cane Day

A white cane is associated to the blind and October 15 each year was designated as White Cane Safety Day. The Sultanate of Oman has issued a postage stamp on 15 October 2004, of an unusually large size (8 x 9 cm). Apart from the Arabic and English, the stamp has the embossed writing, the Braille, enabling the blind to read it. This feature makes the stamp unique. Besides, it has the emblem of the Al Noor, the Association for the Blind Sultanate of Oman.

Oman - International White Cane Day (2004)

Catalogue contains of more Oman stamp are available - here. A good collection of stamps related to disable person can be seen - here.

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Slovakia - TUK's 50 Years Anniversary

Slovakia - TUK's 50 Years Anniversary (2002)

Technical University of Kosice was established in 1952. TUK is the second largest technical university in Slovakia. The largest technical university is still the Slovakia University. A special stamp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of TUK was issued on October 17, 2002.

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Azerbaijan - Walk in Space Anniversary

A Soviet cosmonaut - Alexei Leonov, became the first human to ever walk in the vacuum of space. He braved 10 minute outside the Voshkod 2 spacecraft which was recognized as the first walk in space on March 18, 1965. Read the story about Leonov mission - here and about Voshkod spacecraft activities - here.

Azerbaijan - 40th Anniversary of First Walk in Space (2005)

A commemorative stamp to honor the 40th anniversary of first walk in space was issued by Azerbaijan postal authority. The stamp was launched on June 1, 2005.

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More about walk in space and other topics related to physics in space are available - here.

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