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Pictured on this stamp is "Famagusta Gate" which forms an integral part of the Venetian walls that fortified the city of Nicosia in the 16th Century. A magnificent historic relic bequeathed to us by the island's turbulent history it must have…

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Smoking, Healthy Living Issue

Nutrition-Exercise / Healthy Living Issue

English: The first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in New York City in 1977, but the disease AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was first recognized as an infection in 1981 and as caused by a virus in 1984. By 1995 the entire genetic structure…

World Clay Target Shooting Championship

The wall painting illustrated on this stamp comes from the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour ( Tou Sotira) at Palechori (Palaeochorio). The building is from the early 16th century, and the interior of the chapel (except for the roof ) is…

"Cyprus 1974" Wood Engraving

Monastic Gospel books with intricate and beautiful illuminations provided craftsmen in the Middle Ages an opportunity to produce some of the most magnificent works of art. Gold and silversmiths of Cyprus who confined their work mainly on the…

The wall painting illustrated on this stamp comes from the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour ( Tou Sotira) at Palechori (Palaeochorio). The building is from the early 16th century, and the interior of the chapel (except for the roof ) is…