Not long after the UK's Royal Mail announced it would honor Sir Nicholas Winton, who is commonly referred to as "Britain's Schindler" for his actions to protect hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia during World War II, a Czech Post stamp honoring him is out.

When I saw a listing for World Toilet Day stamps, I thought this must be a joke. But it is a real day, bringing attention to a need for sanitation systems.

New Zealand's All Blacks, one of the more storied and recognizable rugby organizations in the world, is being honored with a one-of-a-kind stamp from New Zealand Post, one made with real fabric from the team's Adidas jerseys.

On June 28, 1914, by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip with the squeeze of a trigger sparked would become to be known as “The Great War” and “The War to End All Wars.”

In June 2011, five years after the success of Cars, its sequel, Cars 2, arrived in theaters. Austria released a set of four folding booklets featuring Mater, Lightning McQueen, Finn McMissile, Holley Shiftwell and assorted other characters from Cars 2 in its fifth Pixar-related booklet.

One of Australia’s souvenir stamp sheet series, in 2006, used a Cars/cars theme, depicting Cars characters in the labels and selvage borders of the sheet that includes stamps depicting classic cars.

The first Disney/Pixar stamps were issued by Uganda in 1997, consisting of one souvenir sheet of six stamps (Scott 1479a-f), two souvenir sheets of nine stamps each (1480a-i and 1481a-i), and a set of three souvenir sheets (1482-84), all showing scenes from Toy Story.

The Jewish News reports the petition it started earlier this summer to have the UK's Royal Mail issue a commemorative stamp for Sir Nicholas Winton, who is commonly referred to as "Britain's Schindler" for his actions to protect hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia during World War II, is a success.

The original "father of surfing," Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, was also an Olympic champion swimmer. He popularized the sport of surfing during his international travels.

Australia Post will celebrate the birth of Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, fourth in line to the British throne, by issuing a 70¢ domestic-rate stamp Aug. 25. The stamp shows a photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, also called Prince William and Catherine (or Kate) Middleton, leaving St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, west London, with their newborn daughter.

Canada Post issued a replacement stamp Aug. 21 featuring Dinosaur Provincial Park as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The new stamp was created with the assistance of the park’s officials.

In August 2014, Scott unveiled its first “stamp eCatalogues,” an unwieldy term for an agile concept: to make available, accessible and affordable in digital form popular subsections of Scott’s massive annual six-volume print juggernaut.

Several postal administrations issued stamps July 9 showing boats of the Mediterranean. These stamps continue the Euromed series that began in 2014. Euromed, a regional postal union of countries in the Mediterranean area, was established in 2011.

Microbiology is a dynamic and highly diverse science. It includes the study of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and certain algae.

Our neighbor to the south has issued a host of very attractive stamps and enjoys a strong following among United States collectors. However, the market for most Mexico issues has been flat for a fairly long time. There are some notable exceptions.

Portugal and Spain issued stamps in July featuring the Mediterranean diet, not necessarily as a means to lose weight, but as part of their cultural heritage. In 2010, the Mediterranean diet was inscribed on UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity for the countries of Greece, Italy, Morocco and Spain. Portugal, Croatia and Cyprus were added to this list in 2013.

On Sept. 9, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history, surpassing the reign of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.

The World Stamp Exhibition began Friday in Singapore, which last hosted the event in 1995. The country is celebrating its 50th Year of Independence in conjunction with the event.

Liechtenstein won the Asiago international award for philatelic art for the best stamp issue of 2014 for its International Year of Crystallography. stamps. The Asiago awards, considered the Oscars of the stamp-design field, are presented annually in Asiago, Italy.

Most stamp collectors are familiar with semipostal stamps. You can find them listed in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue after the regular postage stamps, with catalog numbers that have a “B” prefix. Semipostals usually have two denominations, often with a plus sign between them.