Sunday Stamps: The Letter "I"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a beautiful sunny morning in the American Midwest.  We did get some rain last week!

In the tour of the alphabet, we are up to the letter "I".  I have two stamps from Iceland:

A lava field from a large eruption on the top, and what looks to be a radio telescope on the bottom?  I am not sure.

I am having fun finding stamps for each letter of the alphabet.

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Sunday Stamps: the letter "H"

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It is a warm sunny day in the American Midwest.  We really need some rain.

We are up to the letter "H" in the tour of the alphabet.  Here is a British stamp celebrating Edmund Halley:

Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist.  He is remembered most, I suspect, for computing the orbit of a bright comet, and predicting its return.  This comet is known as Halley's comet now.  This illustration is a mash-up of Halley's face and the comet.  I am not sure it's successful.

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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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