Panoramic views of nature are shown across three recent pairs of stamps. Two of these se-tenant (side-by-side) pairs were issued by Liechtenstein June 9, the first in a Nature Reserves series. Germany issued the third pair July 1, continuing a series called Germany’s Most Beautiful Panoramas.

Thurgood Marshall was named to the United States Supreme Court in 1967.

The topic is a hot one on Twitter, where the @USPSStamps, @FDRLibrary and @USNatArchives are all celebrating the unofficial holiday.

The forthcoming Elvis Presley commemorative stamp made a brief appearance on the Internet — and then it was gone. Collectors reported placing orders for Elvis Presley forever stamps when they spotted the new listing on the United States Postal Service's retail website. Linn's reader Stephen J. Sullivan said he preordered uncut sheets and other Elvis stamp items, and received a confirmation e-mail for his order.

“This is the stamp of controversy. I believe in it. BKM,” wrote Benjamin K. Miller, who donated his magnificent collection of United States postage stamps to the New York Public Library in 1925 — the most complete U.S. stamp collection that anyone had assembled up to that time. At present the Miller collection is on long-term loan to the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., where visitors can inspect at close hand the rarities he collected. In the note attached to his album leaf, Miller was referring to a block of four 30¢ orange Benjamin Franklin stamps with gauge 10 perforations on unwatermarked paper mounted on that page.

If you agree with the maxim “you can never have too many shoes,” you may want to start examining postage stamps for the variety of footwear found there. A good place to begin on a philatelic shoe-hunting expedition is Belgium’s 2008 commemorative honoring the National Footwear Museum (Scott 2337). The museum is located in Izegem, a former shoemaking center.

On April 25 of this year, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in Southeast Asia experienced a devastating earthquake that took the lives of more than 8,000 people. An aftershock on May 12 led to further death and destruction. How many people who watched the news reports of these devastating events knew where Nepal is and what the country is like? Those of us who are worldwide stamp collectors have an advantage, because we have learned global geography from our stamps.

In the Spotlight on Philately column this month, Ken Lawrence presents a lengthy and fascinating history of the United States 30¢ orange Benjamin Franklin stamp of 1917 with gauge 10 perforations on unwatermarked paper.

A French military strategist played a significant role in the American Revolution.

To mark Singapore’s hosting of the 2015 World Stamp Exhibition, Singapore Post is putting out some high-tech new stamps.

Since the abhorrent murder of nine African-American churchgoers by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C. on June 17, calls have spread across the United States for symbols of the old Confederacy to be removed from public places.

An unused 90¢ blue George Washington from the 1857-61 stamp series will be offered at auction July 15-16.

The popular television game show 'Jeopardy!' has featured stamps as a quiz category on multiple occasions.

The famed Locket Copy of the Inverted Jenny, the United States 24¢ airmail stamp of 1918 with the biplane in the center printed upside down in error, was sold in New York on May 20 by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in association with Sotheby’s.

The Richard C. Frajola collection of worldwide classic covers from philately’s earliest years was sold by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York on May 19. The sale was previewed in Linn’s on May 18.

The "father of hot-air ballooning" saw his invention honored on U.S. stamps.

In the world of stamp collecting, the Hawai`i “Missionaries” (Hawaii Scott 1-4) have long been at the forefront of celebrated classics, but it is the later (and much more affordable) engraved issues that tell the story of the kingdom’s colorful history.

From 'Citizen Kane' to 'The Twilight Zone': the music of Bernard Herrmann.

A new forever stamp commemorating Paul Newman will be issued Sept. 18

First-day ceremonies are wonderful promotional events organized by the United States Postal Service for most commemorative and some definitive (regular-issue) stamps.