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XXII Winter Olympic Games

Date of Issue  - 15 March 2011

The Russian Post has issued a souvenir sheet dedicated to the XXII Winter Olympic Games which will be held in Sochi, Russian Federation from 7 to 23 February 2014. The souvenir sheet  illustrates the logo of the XXII Winter Olympics on a background of snow-covered slopes of Krasnaya Polyana, as well as a stylized torch with ribbons, painted in Olympic colors.

Sochi won the right to host the Winter Games at the 119th IOC session in Guatemala in 2007 over Pyongyang (South Korea), Salzburg (Austria), Alma Ata (Kazakhstan), Borzhomi (Georgia), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Jaca (Spain).

2011 Games of the Small States of Europe in Liechtenstein

  

Date of Issue – 14 March 2011

Liechtenstein Post issued a set of 3 stamps on 14 March to commemorate 2011 Games of the Small States of Europe .

From 30 May to 4 June 2011 the Principality of Liechtenstein is for the second time since 1999 hosting the biennial Games of the Small States and under the slogan “Be part of it” bids sportsmen and -women from the European countries Andorra, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and Cyprus come and participate in an honourable sporting contest. Some 800 men and women athletes are expected at the “LieGames”, as the Games are called in the sport-crazed Principality; on five competition days these athletes will contend with one another at 13 venues in nine different sports and 108 events.

All nine of the sports featuring in the Games of the Small States 2011 are reflected in the design of this stamp series. The stamps are in metallic colors of medals given at games – Bronze, Silver and Gold.

The Bronze stamp depicts the competition categories athletics, volleyball and cycling, the Silver stamp shows judo, shooting and squash and the Gold stamp table tennis, tennis and swimming.

Club News

 

Today is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day  . The theme of world TB day this year is “On the move against tuberculosis” and the goal is to inspire innovation in TB research such as developing rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and effective vaccines.

24 March - World Tuberculosis Day

  

New Stamps on Easter

 

Date of Issue – 1 March  2011

Magyar Posta ( Hungary) issued stamp to commemorate Easter on 1st March 2011.The stamp design uses a reproduction of a work by the textile artist Erzsébet Szekeres entitled Hungarian Golgotha. The stamp’s first day cover is adorned by a detail from another work by the same artist, Lamb of God. The graphic design of the special postmark employs a stylised version of the lamb on the cover.

The word golgotha is derived from the Hebrew gulgoleth, and the Aramaic transcription of this (gulgalta) has been adopted and adapted in modern use. In Greek this is kranion, while the Latin translation calvaria provides the deriva-tion of our word calvary. The word means skull or place of skulls. Originally, it was the name of a hill in a quarry north north-west of Jerusalem, which was a place of execution in ancient times. The name probably refers to the skulls remaining from the executions. According to the Gospels this is the place where Jesus was crucified and buried.

: Magyar Posta

Easter stamp from Vatican City

Date of Issue – 21 March 2011

 

The stamp features the central moment of the salvific mission of  Lord ??? the Resurrection ??? as seen in a detail of a wall mural located at the main entrance to the Sistine Chapel. The fresco is perhaps one of the least known of the Sistine Chapel and is a work by Flemish painter Hendrick van den Broeck. It is a copy of an original by Ghirlandaio which was destroyed when the door frame collapsed in 1522. The painting is one the masterpieces of the 1400s alongside the frescoed walls and great paintings by Michelangelo.

Remembering great heroes of India..

Philatelic Tributes to great heroes of India

It is 23 March ….a day to remember the greatest of sacrifices made by three young men in India’s quest for Independence and Freedom from British rule.On March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh was hanged in Lahore with his fellow comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev. Since then 23 march is known as Shaheed Diwas.

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was born on September 27, 1907, gave a new direction to revolutionary movement in India, formed 'Naujavan Bharat Sabha' to spread the message of revolution in Punjab, formed 'Hindustan Samajvadi Prajatantra Sangha' along with Chandrasekhar Azad to establish a republic in India, assassinated police official Saunders to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, dropped bomb in Central Legislative Assembly along with Batukeshwar Dutt. Bhagat Singh was one of the most prominent faces of Indian freedom struggle. He was a revolutionary ahead of his times.

“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody.”

“The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity – of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.” – from Bhagat Singh’s prison diary

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Inqulab Zindabad – Bhagat Singh

: Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

World Water Day..

 

 

Today is World Water Day ! International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater.

Can you imagine a life without water?

The theme of the World Water Day 2011 is 'Water for cities: Responding to the urban challenge'.

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World Water Day

: Ashwani Dubey - Gorakhpur

World Forestry Day..

 

To be issued on 5 May 2011

Hi ! Today is World Forestry Day.I wish to share here two magnificent stamps to be issued by Serbia Post on 5th May to celebrate year 2011 as Year of Forests (this year’s Europa theme) . These are the most beautiful stamps issued on Forests, issued so far. It might be the best designed stamp on 2011 Year of Forests . The design of the stamps is wonderful and very unique showing the beautiful posters of forests with the background of logs and in another one the green folding leaf…..Just beautiful !! Kudos to the designer of the stamp !! This is all for Today……..Till Nest Post….Have a Great Time !!

World Forestry Day is an international event celebrated on 21 March every year as people take time to consider the benefits of forests to the community - such as catchment protection, providing habitat for plants, areas for recreation, education and scientific study, and as a source of many products including timber and honey. World Forestry Day also aims to provide opportunities for people to learn how forests can be managed and used sustainably for these many purposes.

2011 is International Year of Forests: The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 2011 as the International Year of Forests (IYF) and has invited governments, the United Nations system, NGOs, the private sector and the public at large to come together. The overall objective: to raise awareness and strengthen the sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests for the benefit of current and future generations.

View more stamps on EUPOPA 2011 - Year of Forests at Europa Stamps

Club News

New Special Cover on Fisheries….

CIFA, the Freshwater Fisheries Institute located at Bhubaneswar, celebrating its Silver jubilee year from 1st April, 2011. To commemorate the beginning of the 25th year, it has been planned to release a Special cover with cachet cancellation on the same day. The cover depicts the pictorial view of CIFA and some of its major activities.Although 1000 numbers cover will be printed but only 250 numbers cover will be circulated among the philatelist and others will be for in house circulation.All the covers will be numbered.

Interested Philatelist friends may contact me for their collection well in advance.

- Dr Bibhudatta Mishra
Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
Kausalyaganga, BHUBANESWAR, ORISSA-751 002
Ph.09437282638 (M); 0674-2465421(o)
E-mail: bhanubibhu@gmail.com; bhanubibhu@rediffmail.com

World House Sparrow Day….

Today is world House Sparrow Day !!

Let’s save the little bird from extinction !!

World Sparrow Day

The World Sparrow Day (WSD) is being celebrated on 20th March across the globe to raise public awareness about the decline of the house sparrow and throw light on the problems faced by the species in its daily fight for survival.

The World Sparrow Day also celebrates the common biodiversity around us. The first World Sparrow Day was celebrated on March 20, 2010 across the globe to celebrate the beauty of the house sparrow.

Where have all the sparrows gone?

For a long, long time, the chubby, chirpy house sparrow lived in our midst aplenty. Now, you can't find them in the urban environment any more. All this has happened in a span of just a few years.

India is not the only place where the sparrows have disappeared from the cities.

In the Netherlands, they are already an endangered species. In Britain, their population is dropping at such an alarming rate that they are now in the red list as a species of 'high conservation concern'.

In France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Finland, the story is not very different. This is an environmental alarm bell at its loudest.

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a common bird that millenniums ago originated in the Mediterranean and came into Europe and Asia with the spread of agriculture. It was carried across the Atlantic in mid-19th century as a friend, to help clean up green inchworms from the trees of New York's Central Park.

It was the most widely distributed species of the world.

Today it is suddenly disappearing in the urban environment. What this translates into is that the modern urbanization has reached a level where it can trigger the extinction of a species. Read More…

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20th March World Sparrow Day !

: Ashwani Dubey, Gorakhpur