The Anthem Philatelist

  I've collecting stamps of Philippine Presidents since I was a young boy. My favorite then was the stamp of former President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos . Another favorite to collect was President Cory Aquino . Never would have I imagined that I will someday be collecting his son, our current President - Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos . Now, he is one of my fave to collect! The stamp above was given to me my wife's closest friend since childhood- Lindy R.G. Thank you Linds! Ferdinand " Bongbong " Romualdez Marcos Jr., commonly referred to by the initials PBBM or BBM , is a Filipino politician who is the 17th and current president of the Philippines . Marcos is also the secretary of agriculture , holding the post in concurrent capacity. He previously served as a senator from 2010 to 2016.  He is the second child and only son of 10th president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos .

This first-of-its kind exhibit from the collections of Cebu Stamp Club's Richard Allen Uy is presented to celebrate the assumption of Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III as the 15th President of the Philippines. To be featured are the stamps, covers and photo of the new president as well as those of all the past presidents. Included too are philatelic materials and stamps of the great icon of democracy, Cory Aquino. Philippine history will also be shown using stamps with some dating as far back as the Spanish dominion, American Occupation, Commonwealth Period, Japanese Occupation and the Republic Issues. So if you are free this Friday, October 8, 2010, please give it a visit at SM City Cebu.

Last July 26, 2010, the Philippine Postal Corporation issued two new stamps of President Benigno S. Aquino III . It is classified as a “Special” kind of issue with denominations of P 7.00 and P 40.00 and quantity of 350,000 pieces and 100,000 pieces, respectively. The said stamps relive the historical moments of President Aquino’s inaugural speech and oath-taking last June 30, 2010 at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park. These newly issued stamps are a nice addition to the Commemorative stamps and first day cover issued on the day of his inauguration last June 30, 2010. The technical description of the President Benigno S. Aquino III stamps are as follows: K ind of Issue: Special, Denomination and Quantity: Php7.00 / 350,000 pieces, Php 40.00/100,000 pieces, Date of Issue: July 26, 2010, Last date of Sale: July 25, 2011 (or as stocks allow), Size: 40 mm x 30 mm (Php 7.00), 30 mm x 40 mm (Php 40.00), Sheet Composition: 16 on (4 x 4), Kind of Printing: Litho offset, Paper: U...

Manuel Acuña Roxas (January 1, 1892 – April 15, 1948) was the first president of the independent Republic of the Philippines. He served as president from the granting of independence in 1946 until his abrupt death in 1948. His term as Philippine president is also the shortest; 1 year 10 months and 18 days. He is best known for his work in the House of Representative's where, in 1932, he sponsored the United States government's Hare-Hawes-Cutting Law specifying a ten year transition period prior to the granting of Independence to the Philippines. The stamp above was issued on June 1. 1992.

Une Seule Nuit (also known as L'Hymne de la victoire or Ditanyè) is the national anthem of Burkina Faso. It was written by the former president Thomas Sankara and adopted in 1984, when the country adopted its present name, and replaced the Hymne Nationale Voltaïque, or national anthem of Upper Volta. Captain Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987) was the leader of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. While noted for his personal charisma and praised for promoting health and women's rights, he also antagonized many vested interests in the country. He was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d'état led by Blaise Compaoré on October 15, 1987, sometimes believed to have been at the instruction of France. A coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré made Sankara President on August 4, 1983, at the age of 33. The coup d'état was supported by Libya which was, at the time, on the verge of war with France in Chad. Sankara saw himself as a revolutionar...

The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand. The fifteen small islands in this South Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi), but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 1.8 million square kilometres (0.7 million sq mi) of ocean. The main population centres are on the island of Rarotonga (14,153 as of 2006), where there is an international airport. There is also a much larger population of Cook Islanders in New Zealand, particularly the North Island. In the 2006 census, 58,008 self-identified as being of ethnic Cook Island Māori descent. With over 90,000 visitors travelling to the islands in 2006, tourism is the country's number one industry, and the leading element of the economy, far ahead of offshore banking, pearls, marine and fruit exports. Defence is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request. In recent times, the Coo...

Rafael Wenceslao Núñez Moledo was a Colombian author, lawyer, journalist and politician, who was elected President of Colombia in 1880 and in 1884. Rafael Núñez was born in Cartagena de Indias, on September 28, 1825. He died in Cartagena on September 18, 1894. Little is known about the early years of Rafael Núñez. It is known that he served as a Circuit Judge in Chiriquí, Panama in 1848. Rafael Núñez married Soledad Román, the love of his life, a lady of Cartagena. In 1848, Rafael Núñez founded in Cartagena, Colombia , the newspaper “La Democracia”, with the intention of promoting the presidential election of General José María Obando, as successor to José Hilario López. That same year he was appointed as Chief of Staff in Cartagena's government, and thus beginning his political life. In 1853 he was elected as MP to the Colombian Congress. In 854 he was elected Governor of the department of Bolívar. Between 1855-1857, during the government of Manuel María Mallarino, he served as ...

Often called "San Min Chu I" (pronounced "San Min Joo Ee"), from the first line of the anthem, the lyrics are taken from the text of a speech given by Dr. Sun Yat Sen , the first president of China at the opening ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy. The music was composed by Cheng Mao-Yun . The anthem was first selected as the anthem for the entirety of China when controlled by the Kuomintang (1930-1949). After the Kuomintang government was ousted by the Communists in 1949, the Kuomintang government fled to the island of Taiwan and continued their government their, using the same state symbols they had on mainland China. There is some debate as to whether it should remain the national anthem of Taiwa n; some oppose it since it was composed in mainland China, while others because it was (and still remains) the party anthem of just one of Taiwan's parties. There is a support by some to use the alternate national anthem, "The Flag Raising Song", w...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. This nation of roughly 62,000 people is located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim. In 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the United States. The National anthem of Marshall Islands was written and composed by Amata Kabua (November 17, 1928 – 20 December 1996. He was the first President of the Marshall Islands from 1979 to 1996 (five consecutive terms). Kabua is the son of a Japanese businessman and a Marshallese mother, who was the daughter of a paramount chieftain. He was grew up on Ebadon Island on the Kwajalein atoll. He began his career as a school teacher before becoming chief of Majuro and Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands, and later president ...

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (born February 8, 1960) also known as Noynoy Aquino, is the fifteenth and incumbent President of the Philippines and is concurrently the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government. Aquino is a fourth-generation politician: his great-grandfather, Servillano "Mianong" Aquino, served as a delegate to the Malolos Congress; his grandfather, Benigno Aquino, Sr., held several legislative positions from 1919–44; and his parents were former President Corazon Aquino and former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr . Aquino is a member of the Liberal Party. Born in Manila, Aquino graduated from Ateneo de Manila University in 1981 and joined his family in their exile in the United States shortly thereafter. He returned to the Philippines in 1983 shortly after the assassination of his father and held several positions working in the private sector. In 1998, he was elected to the House of Representatives as Representative of...

Carlos P. Garcia was born in Talibon, Bohol on November 4, 1896, to Policronio Garcia and Ambrosia Polistico. He studied in Cebu Provincial High School and Silliman University then Philippine Law School and graduated in 1923. Garcia was famous for his poetry in Bohol where he earned the nickname Prince of Visayan Poets.   Garcia became a school teacher then a representative in the Philippine Congress in 1925. He was elected governor of Bohol in 1931 and re-elected 1940. Garcia became a senator in 1941. He was re-elected in 1945 and again in 1953. During the Japanese occupation , Garcia was an active member of the resistance. After the war, he was the one who missioned the Philippine Rehabilitation at War Damage claims in 1945 in the United States.   Garcia was elected as vice-president in 1953 and was appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs under President Ramon Magsaysay . He assumed the presidency the day after Magsaysay's death. After Garcia finished Magsaysay's term, ...

Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office. Aquino was also the first popularly and democratically-elected female president and head of state in Asia. She is best remembered for leading the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, which toppled the authoritarian regime of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy in the Philippines. "Tita (Auntie) Cory", as she was affectionately known, is revered by many Filipinos as an icon of Democracy, and was hailed by TIME Magazine as the "Saint of Democracy," due to her well-known spiritual life and strong adherence to non-violence and democracy. A self-proclaimed "plain housewife", Aquino was married to Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr ., the popular opposition leader and staunchest critic of then President Ferdinand Marcos. Senator Aquino was assassinated on August 21, 1983 upon...

"Pincez Tous vos Koras, Frappez les Balafons" (Pluck Your Koras, Strike the Balafons)is Senegal's national anthem. The "koras" (a harp-lute) and "balafons" (drums) mentioned in the anthem title are native instruments to this African nation, and can be used in the playing of the national anthem. The composer of the music. Herbert Pepper, also composed the music for the Central African Republic anthem, and the words were by Senegal's first president, Leopold Senghor. Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal (1960–1980). Senghor was the first African to sit as a member of the Académie française. He was also the founder of the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. Léopold Sédar Senghor was born on 9 October 1906 in the sma...

The national anthem of Turkmenistan is called the National Anthem of Independent Neutral Turkmenistan (sometimes also Independent, Neutral, Turkmenistan State Anthem, a literal translation from Turkmen). The lyrics were written by the first president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov (also known as Turkmenbashi, Turkmen: Türkmenbaşy). Niyazov died on 21 December 2006, and two years after his death the Parliament adopted a law that changed some of the lyrics – all references to Turkmenbashi in the anthem were replaced with the people. Saparmurat Ataýewiç Niyazov (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006) was a Turkmen politician who served as President of Turkmenistan from 2 November 1990 until his death in 2006. He was First Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 and continued to lead Turkmenistan for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. He was known in English as Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the romanization of the Russian spelling Сапарм...