Planet Earth
The year 1992 was declared the International Space Year – meant to coincide with the five-hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus and his crew first coming to the Americas. The stamps at the top of this album page show satelites and maybe a space station in space somewhere. The U.N. Secretary General speaking at the World Space Congress in Washington, D.C that year asked people to see the Earth an interdependent planet requiring respect and care for it and its inhabitants – and not to be consumed and conquered as did Europeans in the New World starting from the time of Columbus.
The last two stamps on the bottom row are meant to bring public attention to the CSTD and its work – which for some reason a child-like artwork was determined to be the best design for that. The CSTD or rather, the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for is part of the U.N. Economic and Social Council. The Commission is meant to provide the Council and thereby the General Assembly with recommendations related to science and technology. They are to regular monitor and review the progress of such, keeping in mind how new science and technology might affect humanity, to consider how policies and actions of the U.N. need to be adjusted.
Note
The stamps on each end of the second row of this album page commemorate two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal, and Stonehenge in the U.K. See the Humanity’s Inheritance page of the Vienna album for nore on World Heritage Sites.
Contains 7 spots: own 7 – 7 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
220 |
1.10 (sep 1992) |
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✓ |
221 |
1.10 (sep 1992) |
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✓ |
211 |
World Heritage Site |
0.50 (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
213 |
3 (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
212 |
World Heritage Site |
1.10 (jan 1992) |
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✓ |
222 |
0.90 (oct 1992) |
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✓ |
223 |
1.60 (oct 1992) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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