Macao post along with Aland post jointly issued a stamp and a miniature sheet featuring Church window.
Church window – Macau
August 31st, 2010 
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Aland post along with Macao post jointly issued a stamp and a miniature sheet featuring Church window.
Queen’s Baton relay special covers – Part 1
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Sport events have significant place in the world of philately, as many stamps, FDC, postmarks and special covers are released during the time period of the event. This year India is hosting XIX Commonwealth Games and had issued various stamp related to the event since 2008.
Today I will present some of the special covers issued during the journey of baton in India till date. As there are many covers I will present all the issued covers in five parts. I would like to thanks Mr. Sreejesh Krishnan for providing me the images of all the special covers.
Youth Olympic Games – UAE
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Emirates post issued a miniature to commemorate the Youth Olympic Games held at Singapore.
Home Children
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Canada Post will honour the Home Children with a commemorative stamp. The stamp features an image of the SS Sardinian (a ship that carried children from Liverpool to Québec), a map symbolizing their cross-Atlantic journey, a photograph of a child at work on a farm and one of a newly arrived Home Child, standing beside a suitcase while en route to a distributing home in Hamilton, Ontario.
Starting in 1869, and continuing into the years following the Second World War, more than 100,000 orphaned, abandoned and pauper children were sent to Canada by British churches and philanthropic organizations, in the hope of providing them with a better life.
Medical Breakthroughs
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The United Kingdom has been at the forefront of medical research and technology since William Harvey first described the circulation of the blood in 1628. British physicians and scientists can justly take credit for the discovery and application of smallpox vaccination, anesthetics, anti-septic surgery and many public health measures, but perhaps some of the most important breakthroughs have taken place in the last 120 years.
