Archive for January, 2009

Henry VIII – Gibraltar

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Name: Henry VIII
Date of Issue: January 2009
Denominations:10p, 10p, 42p, 42p, 44p, 44p, 51p, 51p

Henry VIII (1491 – 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of France, from 21 April 1509 until his death. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII.
Henry VIII was a significant figure in the history of the English monarchy. Although in the first years of his reign he energetically suppressed the Protestant reformation of the church, a movement having roots with the martyr John Wycliffe of the 14th century, he is more popularly known for his political struggles with Rome.

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Birth Bicentenary of Louis Braille – Ireland

January 26th, 2009 srmodh view 42 views

Name: Birth Bicentenary of Louis Braille
Date of Issue: 23 January 2009
Denominations: 55c

Louis lost his sight following an eye injury at the age of three. While a student of the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, Louis was shown a system of raised dots and dashes developed by Charles Barbier, a French army captain, as a method of reading messages in the dark. Recognising its potential, Louis reduced this system to a much simplified grid consisting of just six dots, thereby creating the Braille system. The system was finally recognised in France in 1854, two years after his death.

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Chinese Year of the Ox 2009 – Ireland

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Name: Chinese Year of the Ox 2009
Date of Issue: 23 January 2009
Denominations: 82c

The ox is much admired in Chinese culture for the uncomplaining pains it takes with daily work. Those born under its watch are expected to demonstrate similar strength of character!

However, there are also five elements – wood, fire, earth, metal and water – associated with each year.

To be born in the year of the Yin Earth Ox is considered fortunate. The Earth element is associated with power, wisdom and patience. The qualifier Yin suggests femininity, which helpfully mitigates the tough single-mindedness for which Earth-sign people are noted.


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Giant Panda – Taiwan

January 26th, 2009 srmodh view 43 views



Name: Giant Panda
Date of Issue: 20 January 2009
Denominations:Tuan Tuan at NT$5.00, Yuan Yuan NT$9.00, miniature sheet NT$25.00.

The stamp featureing Tuan Tuan is denominated at NT$5.00 while Yuan Yuan is denominated at NT$9.00. The miniature sheet is denominated at NT$25.00.

The giant panda is a charming and adorable animal. It has a face of a cat and a chubby body of a bear. At birth, it weighs only 50 to 160 grams and its body appears reddish, bare and shiny. It is reared by the mother alone. It will become independent from its mother when it reaches 18 months. A grown-up panda is stout. It is about 160 to 180 centimeters in height when standing up straight, and it weighs about 80 to 125 kilograms. The fur around its eyes and on its ears, limbs, chest and back is black, and the fur on the rest of its body is white. The black and white of its coat provides a stark contrast. It has thick skin and fur, and is not afraid of the cold. Bamboo is the giant panda’s main food source. It uses its sixth toe on its paws to grasp poles of bamboo. Currently, wild populations of pandas exist only in China—in the Sichuan Basin of Sichuan Province and the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. As a result of various factors, a low fertility rate, excessive hunting, destruction of habitat, and the lowering of genetic diversity, the wild population has rapidly dwindled. Yet, with growing consciousness about conservation and the concerted efforts of many, it is currently well protected.

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Unique Birds of Malaysia

January 26th, 2009 srmodh view 57 views

Name: Unique Birds of Malaysia
Date of Issue: 21 January 2009
Denominations:30 sen, 50 sen (2 designs), Miniature sheet – RM5

30 sen (left): Malaysian Peacock-Pheasant (Polyplectron malacense)
50 sen (middle): Malaysian Whistling Thrush (Myophonus robinsoni)
50 sen (right): Milky Stork (Mycteria cineria)
RM5: Wreathed Hornbill (Aceros undulatus)
Plain-pouched Hornbill (Aceros subruficollis)

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Year of the Ox – Australia

January 24th, 2009 srmodh view 35 views

Name: Year of the Ox
Date of Issue: 26 January, 2009
Denominations:55c, $1.65

The Ox symbolises loyalty and tenderness and is highly respected in traditional Chinese society signifying prosperity through fortitude and hard work. The minisheet of the issue depicts Laozi, a prominent thinker in ancient China. A native of Chu, a southern state in the Zhou dynasty, he served as a keeper of archival records at the court.

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The landscape of the journey – Japan

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Name: The landscape of the journey
Date of Issue: 23 January, 2009
Denominations:80 Yen x 10

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Robert Burns 250th Anniversary – GB

January 22nd, 2009 srmodh view 26 views

Name: Robert Burns 250th Anniversary
Date of Issue: 22 January, 2009
Denominations:1st, 2nd, 1st, 50, 81, 1st

Robert Burns, one of the world’s greatest poets, and Scotland’s national bard, was born 250 years ago into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759.

The brilliance Burns displayed as a child did not reach a wider public until 1786, when at the age of 27, “Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” was published. Considered to be one of the greatest poetical collections ever written, it gained appeal not solely with Edinburgh society, but also with those from the same tough background as himself.

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