tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10525084177509150682024-03-13T05:06:03.019-07:00Kids Need StampsThis family-operated club serves as a boost-in-the-arm to parents wanting to introduce their children to the ever-expansive world of stamp collecting. I provide free stamp starter kits and the blog has links to other useful information about the world's most educational hobby shared by everyone from Russian peasants to American Presidents.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-87050926548823840882016-04-04T18:46:00.000-07:002016-04-17T18:46:51.177-07:00Art: New Expressionists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Art and is incredible works are no stranger to stamps. Nations have often used it as a method to promote their artists and tourist destinations. StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-28128122335983844582016-03-07T18:43:00.000-08:002016-04-17T18:43:56.331-07:00Flags Of The Nations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Flags of the world nations are colorful reminders of the enormous diversity of language and people throughout the world.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-89104186967181356742016-02-05T18:40:00.000-08:002016-04-17T18:41:26.111-07:00Black History Month --- Buffalo Soldiers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They fought against Indians. The fought for their country. The Buffalo Soldiers the first in many African-Americans military figures of history.<br />
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Cycling is not only a sport but an art full of interesting designs fit for display on tiny postage stamps.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-6053068459466364442015-12-09T18:30:00.000-08:002016-04-17T18:30:55.935-07:00Magic of Musical Instruments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The beauty of music is not lost on stamps who reveal with their images how important instruments are in basic culture.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-42465570630736074162015-10-07T18:26:00.000-07:002016-04-17T18:27:46.872-07:00Russian Aircraft and Stamps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mother Russia has had a fondness for aviation and stamps and continues to document their accomplishments through numerous issues.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-64382717849592940592015-06-08T18:21:00.000-07:002016-04-17T18:23:30.146-07:00Aviation and Stamps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first commercial supersonic aircraft in all its glory. Aviation and stamps have had a long history ever since the first airplane flight.<br />
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The United States is not the only country celebrating Africa diversity in its culture.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-31033402439119383112015-01-05T20:34:00.000-08:002015-01-24T20:35:36.210-08:00Yemen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Butterflies of every type are popular topical subjects in stamp collecting. Their bright colorful patterns and nature-enhancing presence makes their perfect focal points for stamp designers.<br />
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He chose the road to peace. He stopped a certain civil war. He healed a nation by forming a Truth<br />
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Mandela you gave us peace. You gave us a better direction for a brighter future. And you liked stamps too! (yes I had to throw that in there.) <br />
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KNS is embarking on its 7th year of operation as a private charity fully engaged in helping parents help their kids collect stamps. The mission continues to be a raging success with KNS helping parents and a number of organizations helping kids start this amazing and still vibrant hobby in an age of technological distractions. <br />
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We have assisted in a number of ventures, beyond the regular parental requests for stamp kits, to slightly expand our reach when discovering the cause fit our tight parameters. <br />
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Please keep in mind KNS doesn't encourage or permit contact with children. We practice strictly what we preach and educate and then block any underage communication. This private charity is and always will be about parental or guardian assistance and encouragement to help their children or charges into the hobby of stamp collecting by providing free stamps and information. We do not apologize for their practice and strongly encourage parents to monitor their children's activities on the Internet. Any parents or others for the matter whom did not like, agree, or feel the need to protest this policy are also free to find another organization to indulge their political correctness. <br />
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KNS wishes everyone out a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.<br />
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Keep stamping alive. <br />
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Yes, there is always something to be thankful for each month we move into the future working, praying and hoping to see our children grow into better versions of ourselves. <br />
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We thank our patrons and their curious children seeking to learn something new, tangible and still relevant in the 21str century: stamp collecting--- the Hobby of Kings, the King of Hobbies.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-58028394741942600692013-10-08T17:27:00.000-07:002013-12-08T17:28:10.281-08:00Topical Paradise: Goblins, Ghouls and Good Stamp Collecting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Vatican Popes who became popes in the month of AugustStampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-30952131079105808782013-07-05T20:27:00.000-07:002013-09-19T20:29:14.413-07:00United Nations: Unique Platform for Various Causes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From a stamp lover's perspective the United Nations is a singularly unique entity that produces stamps on an international basis that often tout a cause that needs attention: polio, sleeping sickness, poverty, abuse, drug addition, etc. For a less than perfect institution the United Nations has done a great deal to support stamps and postage throughout the world. <br />
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The first stamp convention I attended was held at the United Nations in New York in 1973 and I saved the items my father and I purchased and never forgot the educational and entertaining experience.<br />
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Here's to the UN, keep up the good work and please strive to improve like in spending your money wiser and actual peacekeeping to stop a war.<br />
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Above is the Syria stamp from 1998 touting human rights. This is the ultimate irony since its independence in 1946. Before that date is was controlled by Turkey and then by France, both which used its own altered postage for Syria but never issued strictly Syrian stamps. As witnessed by recent news like most abused entities it became a routine abuser upon independence by killing its own citizens for the past 5 decades and often engaging in massive criminal and political enterprises against it neighbor country Lebanon.StampDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252570104076488205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052508417750915068.post-16953101059097439742013-05-24T20:21:00.000-07:002013-05-29T20:22:54.522-07:00Teaching Through Stamps: Links and Lessons<div style="text-align: center;">
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