Black writes that his great-uncle passed away from cancer just last year -- the great-uncle who used to take him fishing in Florida, told him stories about life as a cook in the U.S. Coast Guard for 21 years, who clipped out and mailed Bracey articles each month about animals, and who gave him his prized stamp collection.Read the complete article: Black puts new spin on annual school fundraiser
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Lewis credits his interest in the aqueducts to his days in Boy Scouts, when he got into stamp collecting, which led to an enthusiasm for history.Read the complete article: One man spearheads quest to restore historic aqueduct
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Lewis is an appointed member of the Federal C&O Canal National Historical Park Advisory Commission, essentially counseling the secretary of the interior on things relating to the C&O Canal.
"I had an interest in history, and interest in the outdoors, and the story to be told about the C&O Canal is just tremendous," Lewis said.
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Everyone said it was filled with old paper and junk. Before consigning it to the dumpster, however, Ms. Conboy decided to have a look inside. Sorting through the must bit by bit, Ms. Conboy unearthed a time capsule of sorts, centered on what seemed to be a fledgling stamp collection. But it was what was connected to the stamps — the letters and postcards — that let at least some of the ghosts of the Lyon house have their say.Read the complete article: History speaks: WWI letters found in Thomas Lyon House attic
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While that is still a good standard for people who do manual work it is no longer applicable when many occupations are extensions of peoples hobbies, interests and extracurricular activities ranging from sex to stamp collecting, from gardening to computing, web design, playing and designing games and widgets.Read the complete article: Blogger Bill Douglas finds more anomalies in the world of health funding
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The single most beneficial treatment for depression is a job, any job, not just one that pays unsustainable salaries for fiddling with other people’s money.
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Wilson was once goaded by a famous physics-trained scientist who suggested that his work on ants and other social insects was nothing much more than "stamp collecting". But in his lecture today, Wilson suggests that the "age of reduction" in biology, as epitomised by the study of DNA rather than living organisms, has largely passed. There are two powerful ideas driving biology in the light of Darwin's theory. One is how living things do what they do, working within the confines of the laws of physics and chemistry, and the other is why they do them in the light of natural selection and evolution. The former is the preserve of problem solvers (reductionists), while the latter is for the naturalists, ...Read the complete article: Steve Connor: A true heir of Darwin – minus the beard
When in London he was an avid fan of the latest stage shows, and usually managed to get to the men's final at Wimbledon each year. He loved art and assembled a valuable stamp collection.Read the complete article: The good life ... Ian and Suzanne Berckelman at a Harvard reunion. Photo: Supplied
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In 1991 he was made a member of the Order of Australia for his services to the export industry. He was also made a visiting fellow of the University of Queensland's graduate school of management in 1997.
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The auction, organized by the Spink Shreves Gallery, also featured an 1851 envelope with a cancelled Twelve Penny Black that sold to an unidentified Canadian collector for about $280,000. And a rare trio of Newfoundland stamps on an envelope mailed in 1857--described as one of the finest examples of its kind "in all of philately"--sold for more than $150,000.Read the complete article: Rare stamp sells for $300000
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Then there are old-school philatelists like Anil K Suri who say that nothing beats the traditional method of stamp collecting. Suri's collection of stamps ...Read the complete article: You just can't stamp it out
Moomintroll lives with Moominpappa and Moominmamma (whose handbag is stuffed with "things we might need in a hurry, like dry socks, sweets and string and tummy-powder") and a variety of other friends of different species, including the Hemulen ("leading Moomin philatelist" who is male but wears a dress, and curtsies because it looks so silly to bow when wearing a dress), tiny Sniff and the harmonica-playing Snufkin, who accompanies Moomintroll on most of his adventures.Read the complete article: Book corner - guardian.co.uk
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It is not just the Fifties black-and-white look that unifies these five photographers. But their subject matter, angles, perspectives, visual effects and other tricks of sight, together with their feeling-world and cultural references, are all part of one happy family of charming and well-intentioned Sunday photography practised, like philately or gardening, in the interstices of another profession. So it comes as a bit of a shock to discover that these are five different pairs of eyes, and five different minds, all showing work made in the last few years. When the internet and freer global commerce, if not actual travel, make it perfectly possible to be aware of the directions in which serious work in one's chosen medium is going, ...Read the complete article: NEVER ON A SUNDAY - Calcutta Telegraph
Haimann, who at age 24 is considered something of the wunderkind of the stamp collecting world and is employed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum, capped off a busy day Wednesday with a talk at the Wayne County Historical Society.Read the complete article: Collector says he got hooked on stamps at early age
Haimann said he got hooked on stamp collecting in the second grade, thanks to the enthusiasm of his teacher. He has established himself as a leading collector, and in 1998 founded his own stamp company. He has been employed by the country's leading stamp auction firm, is a member of many stamp collectors clubs, and is managing director of the Mystic Rare Stamp Co. in Camden, N.J., in addition to his work as a collections specialist for the Smithsonian.
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