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It is a known fact that heredity and the environment affect the development of one's personality. Many are those who accept the possibility that the same applies to people as a whole. The huge forests where dense trees stand upright side by side are…

Pulpit (St. Lazarus Church, Larnaca)

On this stamp we can see the pulpit of the Tripiotis church (Nicosia, Solon Street, near Laiki Yitonia). The Pulpit is a wood carved work of art of the 19th century. Christ and the four Evangelists are painted on it. The pulpit is par t of the…

Purple Dye Murex ( Murex brandaris)

Bee-keeping in Cyprus has a history going back many centuries and visitors today to monasteries and villages can still come across beehives which are tended by monks and village folk.
Dennis Possot, a priest on his way to the Holy Places landed in…

This set closed a chapter in the history of Cyprus stamps that did not portray the island's soul, traditions andzalues. It was a period where the ideal was everything British and more over that of the King or Queen. In the stamps of this period there…

The stamps that existed at the postal offices in the island as well as those in Great Britain were considered as assets of the Republic of Cyprus. It was accordingly decided to overprint them rather than destroy them and to use them for postal and…

This set closed a chapter in the history of Cyprus stamps that did not portray the island's soul, traditions and alues. It was a period where the ideal was everything British and more over that of the King or Queen. In the stamps of this period there…

Queen Elizabeth II, eldest daughter of King George VI was born in 1926. In November 1947 she married Philip Mountbatten (created Duke of Edinburgh) and succeeded to the throne on 6th February 1952. Her coronation in June 1953 was the first to be…

Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of White on 22nd January 1901; she was then the matriarch of European Royalty, had transformed the standing of the Monarchy and had made it
the single most obvious link holding together the world’s…