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...shown when the officials cross between Soviet- occupied East Berlin and the Western sector. The government insisted that there had been a misunderstanding and that the passport requirement had been only a temporary measure. While that matter appears to have been settled, an attempt by the East Germans to stamp courtesy visas in the passports of diplomats visiting from West Berlin must still be resolved before the latest skirmish in the battle for Berlin is over...
Veterans of American wars have been memorialized in literature, lore and granite. But for the fighters in one bitter conflict, a 1985 commemorative postage stamp has had to suffice. The Korean War is not an event that has lingered in the public memory; its veterans, members of the silent generation, came home with their mouths shut, preferring to keep their angst private. This comprehensive history at last gives voice to their experience and their anguish. On June 25, 1950, Soviet-armed troops from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea charged across the 38th parallel in an attempt to unify...
...past decade, a dozen or so places have released scratch-and-sniff and lick-and-taste stamps. Switzerland had a chocolate-scented version, Britain a eucalyptus one, New Zealand a magnolia-smelling stamp and Hong Kong one that tasted of green tea. Britain has also produced a stamp with a hologram, and Switzerland a Braille stamp...
...Earlier this year, Austria released a stamp that shrank a football to, well, postage-stamp size, to mark the country's role as co-host of this year's European soccer championships. The self-adhesive stamps were not only circular, but made of the same polyurethane mix as the balls that players used in the June tournament. The Austrian post office printed some 500,000 and they sold for just under $6 each...
...Some of the strangest stamps over the past couple of decades have come from the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, or, more accurately, from a Pittsburgh-based company that produces stamps for Bhutan. Bhutan was the first to release 3-D stamps (including a series of masks and one of the country's much-loved mushrooms), silk stamps, steel stamps, scented stamps (way back in 1973) and even a stamp that could be played on a tiny record player. Now come the world's first CD-ROM stamps, containing documentaries about the country and marking Bhutan's political shift from...