I was preparing a page for my exhibit and trying to think of what to use and I cam across the stamp on the right. The stamp shows the coat of arms of a Czech town called Česká Třebová situated on the border of Bohemia and Moravia. According to the information sent to me by their webmaster, the name of the town is based...

We Jews have had a rough time, massacres by Roman invaders, Muslim invaders, Crusaders and others. In Europe, we had massacres in most countries, during Crusader times, the Inquisition, the Black Death, Pogroms and the Holocaust. Now we have our own country and the words "Never Forget" and "Never Again" are an integral...

I promised Graham Beck that I would provide more information about labels being used as regular postage. It is no secret that in 1920, Great Britain was given the Mandate to govern an area that the League of Nations called Palestine. This area became known as the British Mandate for Palestine. The specific instructions...

What travels around the world but remains in a corner? A postage stamp and its postmark, of course. Today we receive a letter in the mail and we look at the postmark and see when it was posted and why it took so long to get here. But as with the postage stamp, this practice had to have been started somewhere, some how,...

It should come as no secret to anyone that Iran was trying to build a nuclear bomb, with the means to deliver the bomb and the first target would be Israel. In 2005, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, boldly proclaimed that Israel "should be wiped off the face of the earth". Sounds like a story out of a James...

In an episode of Exploring Stamps, Graham spoke of my crash cover and I thought it would be nice to give more information than the cold facts, after all people lost their lives. February 21, 1970, a cold and wet Saturday, Switzerland was shaken when Swissair 330 bound for Tel Aviv, crashed shortly after take-off from Zurich....

I am going to label this as a fun fact item. As a thematic exhibitor, I always have my eye open for interesting items that I can add to my exhibit. There is a category known as INNOVATION which allows me some leeway to add such items. I should add that not every thematic judge understands how this category can be used...