Sunday Stamps: the letter "G"

 Hello and welcome to my stamps blog.  It's a warm sunny day in the American Midwest and dry.  We need some rain.

In the Sunday Stamps tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter "G".  I am sharing another stamp I found in the stamps box, an older British stamp:

This commemorates the setting up of the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian for all the world. This is to designate a 0 line of longitude, and to measure east and west of this line.   I thought this was determined earlier, say in the 1700's, but no.  Different countries had different prime meridians of longitude.

Wikipedia explains more HERE, and another web page explains it HERE.

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Sunday Stamps: the letter "F"

 Good day, welcome to my blog.  It's a cool Fall-like day and cloudy, in the American Midwest.  Well it is September.

We are up to the Letter F in the tour of the alphabet by Sunday Stamps.  I have two stamps today.  Firstly, a stamp from Finland:

A cute teddy bear writing away.  And a stamp from France:

This is a self-portrait by Albrecht Durer.  This is an engraving after the original portrait, which is below (from Durer's Wikipedia page):

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Sunday Stamps: The letter "E"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a sunny and cool morning, a bit of Fall a little early.

I have spotty internet connection today.  Funny, you don't know how much you use the internet, even at home, until it's gone.

Well, it's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter "E".  I have a former president on a stamp to share:

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the USA, serving from 1953 to 1961.

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Sunday Stamps: The Letter "D"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a beautiful day in the American Midwest, great summer weather.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter D.

In cleaning up a closet, I discovered a small wooden box with various stamps I have collected in the past, some soaked off paper, some still on their envelopes.  There was a packet or two of stamps sold to collectors.  I found stamps from Dominica:

And from Denmark:

I will continue looking through the box to find other countries, or topics, appropriate for the tour through the alphabet.

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