Here I present my stamps and covers/postmarks collection. If you want to help me growing this collection, please send me a cover or stamps(mint/used) from your country, and i will send you a cover or postcard from Portugal. My favourit themes are disney, comics (all kind are welcome), scouts, lighthouses, WWF, Pope John Paul II, Princess Diana, fireman, cars, costum, flowers!! If you are interested just comment one of my posts and put your email address to contact you.
20 November 2008
MAURITANIA REPUBLIC
Stamps issued in Islamic Republic of Mauritânia!
- 2 stamps about 21th Anniversary of Diana- 3 stamps about Royal Wedding.
18 November 2008
12 November 2008
PORTUGAL
PORTUGAL
The pillory was a device used in punishment by public humiliation and often additional, sometimes lethal, physical abuse.
The word is documented in English since 1274 (attested in Anglo-Latin from c.1189), and stems from Old French pellori (1168; modern French pilori, see below), itself from Medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier."
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Several sets of 4 stamps about Olimpic Games of Los Angles 84, issued by Laos.
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma (Myanmar) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million Elephants, which existed from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.
After a period as a French protectorate, it gained independence in 1949. A long civil war ended officially when the communist Pathet Lao movement came to power in 1975 but the protesting between factions continued for several years.