Stamp collector, art collector, historical document collector; a typewriter. Not necessarily in that order.
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Camouflaged British mobile loft, WWI (courtesy of the London Transport Museum)
January 1538. A family is denounced to the Inquisition in Lisbon for remaining Jewish & keeping kosher. Evidence? The matriarch of the family refused to eat lamprey eels "because they disgust her and look like snakes." (nam comia lamprea por que tenia nojo della por lhe parecer cobra).
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is hiring an Extension Associate to serve as the manager for Youth and Community Engagement both nationally and in international settings, for strategic planning, partnership development, implementation, and evaluation of impact. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...
#aircargohistory
Time to start a new megacollection? Of course! Here are the first two pages of the stamps issued in 1973 to commemorate the centenary of the founding of the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), now the WMO #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...
1930, St. Thomas.
The era of expansion of foreign airmail routes...Pan American would acquire the New York, Rio, and Buenos Aires Line and fly the Consolidated Commodore in the Caribbean.
FAM Route # 10 would become obscured by expansion of the route into Buenos Aires...and ultimately, WWII.
A remarkable photo. A group of men unload esparto grass from Aguilas, Murcia from barges at a wharf near Lambeth on the River Thames, 1938. Probably for cellulose for high quality paper for bank notes & book printing. Would have been source of currency for desperate Republic during Spanish Civil War
#Leipzig
Auch รผber den Leipziger Zoo
hat die DDR 1953 die ersten Briefmarken und dann zum 100. Geburtstag zur Freude
der #Philatelisten heraus gegeben.
@d-b-z.bsky.social
3/3 Just in case you didn't believe that Saenredam had drawn the Town Hall before it burned down, he inscribed that fact on shop awnings -- I drew it after life in 1641! Really!
09.06.1878
Der Zoo #Leipzig wird erรถffnet durch den Leipziger Gastwirt Ernst Pinkert als privater zoologischer Garten auf dem Ratsgut Pfaffendorf gegrรผndet er war der 23. Tiergarten in Europa.
1883 wurde das Areal auf 3 ha erweitert.
2000 einstimmiger Stadtratsbeschluss Konzept โZoo der Zukunftโ
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
Icke-Bernd Geschichtsliebhaber & Naturfreund !
Junkers Ju 52/3m was captured by the Australian forces at Ain-El Gazala, Libya, repainted and nicknamed "Libyan Clipper". The aircraft was used by 450 Squadron RAAF to transport mail, food supplies and small items.
