UNESCO
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is another specialized agency of the United Nations. Started in 1945, it focuses on education, culture, as well as the arts and sciences. Their belief is that peace can be achieved with education and exchanging of ideas and artistic expression. Besides literacy programs and education in general, they provide technical training and assistance in advanced scieces. They seek to promote and preserve cultures around the world.
Related to all of this, countries can register with UNESCO places that have cultural, historical, or scientific significance as World Heritage Sites – sites that are considered of outstanding value to humanity and that need to be preserved for future generations. If a site is approved, it will be given funding for maintaining, as well as legal protection under international treaties. Generally, UNESCO sites become tourist destinations and bring in significant revenues for the member state.
The stamps on the third row depict two UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The first is the Grand Canyon. I’ve been there. It’s so spectacular that we, as Americans cannot think of as ours. It belongs to the world. In fact, I’ve often thought that denying anyone a visa to enter the U.S. to see the Grand Canyon is denial of a basic human rights.
Note
The stamps on the top row are related to the Food and Agriculture Organization. I talk about them in the Geneva collection, which has the same stamps (see the World Food album page). For now, I just want to say they’re beautiful stamps. From this point, many of the U.N. stamps are well designed.
Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
419 |
20c (mar 1984) |
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✓ |
420 |
40c (mar 1984) |
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✓ |
417 |
20c (feb 1984) |
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✓ |
423 |
20c (may 1984) |
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✓ |
424 |
50c (may 1984) |
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✓ |
418 |
40c (feb 1984) |
World Heritage Site
✓ |
421 |
Grand Canyon |
20c (apr 1984) |
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✓ |
422 |
Polonnaruwa |
50c (apr 1984) |
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✓ |
441 |
20c (nov 1984) |
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✓ |
442 |
35c (nov 1984) |
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.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
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