Six dances from around the world are displayed on the United Nations Postal Administration’s International Dance Day stamps. The stamps are being issued April 29, International Dance Day, in panes of six.

April 21 is the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 1952. The queen's birthday is celebrated in Great Britain with special festivities in June.

You will notice that values for many stamps of Qatar are given in italics in the 2016 Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. This reflects the fact that the market for Qatari stamps has been in flux. Over the past several years, many of the sheikdom’s stamp issues were hot items. Some still are, but many are not.

Royal Mail kept the four-generation souvenir sheet and photograph a secret until April 20, the day before the queen’s birthday. But after it was announced, the photograph was soon spreading over social media, including the British monarchy’s Instagram account.

Foreign postal administrations ranging alphabetically from Aland to the UN will be at WSS-NY 2016 selling various new issues and related products.

Gifted with remarkable skill in both comedy and music, Dudley Moore's career included a long partnership with fellow comedian Peter Cook, and a very successful film career.

Composer Franz von Suppe (1819-95) was born in Dalmatia and found fame in Vienna as a conductor and composer of light opera and other works.

Danish author Karen Blixen drew upon her experiences in Kenya to write Out of Africa, originally published under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.

To honor the 60th anniversary of Europa stamps, PostEurop will release various stamps featuring the “Think Green” theme.

The Graphics Philately Association, founded in 1975 by Robert M. Ritterband, a printer in California, and Mark H. Winnegrad, a librarian in New York, studies the history of books and printing on stamps.

Some have said that King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was the only real Yugoslav who ever lived. Everyone else in the country was either Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Bosniak, Macedonian, or Albanian.

In 1952, the Kingdom of Yemen issued a set of two regular stamps and two airmail stamps (Scott 78-79 and C10-C11) commemorating the architectural history of the country. The stamps were issued both perforated gauge 14½ and imperforate.

The Wreck & Crash Mail Society is devoted to the collecting and study of all aspects of delayed and/or damaged mail and interrupted mail services.

Like many youngsters in England during the 1940s and 1950s, young John Lennon collected stamps.

Stamps will take you places. Even if your journey is taken while sitting in your favorite chair and placing stamps from faraway countries into your albums.

Canada Post continues to reveal new stamps with a Star Trek theme. The latest permanent-rate stamp shown pictures actor Leonard Nimoy in his role as first officer Spock.

In a recent letter to Linn’s, James Paton asks, “Do we have to wait for the recalcitrant U.S. Congress to act before I can sell my interesting Cuban covers that were sent through the mails over 70 years ago?” Paton wants to sell on the eBay Internet auction site a 1943 censored cover from Havana to the United States. The short answer is “Yes.” The embargo is still in effect, and eBay, like any other business, must abide by the embargo.

If you love British definitive stamps of the 1880s through the 1920s but can’t afford them in unused hinged condition or mint never hinged condition, you can find many of them affordably priced overprinted and surcharged for use in British post offices in the Ottoman Empire. Great Britain was one of several countries given permission to operate its own post offices within the Sublime Porte.

Australia, Turkey, and Sweden all issued stamps depicting historic and modern bridges during the month of March.

The Royal Mail honors the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death with stamps featuring a variety of classic quotes from his work.