The year football changed hands
A 1985 Nicaraguan airmail stamp captions its scene “football in 1883” — the year working-class Blackburn Olympic broke the gentlemen’s grip on the FA Cup. The odd part is which country chose to print it.
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A European Owl on an African Stamp
THROUGH THE LENS A European Owl on an African Stamp This Equatorial Guinea owl stamp carries the words protección de la naturaleza — protection of nature. Read the fine print, though, and it names its own bird European. The creature it honours belongs to another continent. Zooming Into the Equatorial Guinea Owl Stamp Details 1…
