I’m going to give a presentation here on personal statements for the health professions that crash course the first thing that I want to make clear is that these personal statements are not like any other essay you’ve written before it’s not the essay for summer camp it’s not an essay for a Creative Writing course and it’s not all scientific writing either so I have lots of students who…

What every researcher feels most of the time there are days when you have that miraculous breakthrough and you really know you’ve God is in heaven and you know that all is right with the world but most days you think I am a worm this is the natural state of the researcher like so what you have to realize is that even you know Tarjan and so for things…

Today we’re going to talk about how to write a ten page term paper overnight. Now, nobody wants to get into this situation, but if you have in fact found yourself at the end of your rope and you have to write your entire paper in one night and it has to be ten pages long, look at me and listen to my advice. Focus on quality, not quantity. Your…

This, the latest book, entitled ‘Sarawak – the De La Rue story’, is in strong contrast to all other treatises on Sarawak philately and postal history. This book inspired me to write my english essay on it.   It starts with the story of Thomas De La Rue (1793 – 1866) and his Company, and then describes in detail the typography method which they adopted for the stamps of Sarawak between the years…

The List of the Famous Philatelists Part 3 Peter A. Forrestier Smith location: Carshalton, Surrey, England contact: lphgat64@aol.com specialisations: London Postal History, Local Posts and Maritime. Postal History of Bishop’s Stortford. other interests: Founder member of the London Postal History Group, with particular interest in the Penny, Twopenny and District Posts, i.e. 1680 to 1856.   Small studies in local areas of interest, Carshalton, Kent Road and Walthamstow. Other main…

Continuing Part 1 Johan Delbeke location: Brooklyn, New York, USA contact: Tatdel@aol.com specialisations: Mozambique, Nyassa, Quelimane, Inhambane, Kionga, Tete, Zambezia, Portuguese East Africa, cancels, handstamps, registration labels, censor marks, rates, routes. other interests: I collect and study any marks officially apposed on mail originating in Portuguese East Africa. This includes cancels, registration labels and handstamps, censor marks, routing instructions etc… I would like to correspond with anyone with similar interests,…

David Allen location: Petersfield, Hampshire, England contact: david@canal29.fsnet.co.uk specialisations: Petersfield postal history U.S. canal zone postal history and stamps other interests: Seeking an example of a Serpentine Petersfield on entire or front, and a Petersfield example of uniform penny post, early 1840. Anything else considered.   Thomas A. Anderson (“Tim”) location: Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA contact: PO Box 3103, Gaithersburg, MD 20885-3103, USA specialisations: Stampless entire letters Antigua, Tobago, St. Kitts,…

Iowa Postal History Society location: Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A. secretary: Al Mack suealmack@home.com information: We are a Society of Iowa Postal History Collectors. We publish a quarterly Journal called “IPHS Bulletin” for our members. Also have quarterly auctions of Iowa Postal History Materials that members desire to sell. See the events section for dates of our forthcoming auctions. An auction catalog is mailed to members about two to three weeks…

The book is written in two parts. The plating studies by Wm. Batty-Smith are the result of over ten years continuous study of these two issues and their provisional derivatives. (See Chapters 4,5,6, 8, 9 and 10). The postal history was compiled from a wide variety of sources by Neville Watterson over a period of five years, and occupies nine chapters. The plating was carried out as an entirely independent…

Each Club or Society has their own page hosted on our site,  for example giving details of contact information, your programme of events, competition announcements, etc. There is no charge for the creation of this page. Natal and Zululand Study Circle location: Meetings in London and South Africa, secretary: John Dickson Hon Secretary – email: johndickson@nzsc.demon.co.uk information: The society concerns itself with the postal history, postage stamps, revenue stamps, postal…