Enjoy this tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography.

Any philatelist can tell you that there is much more to stamps than meets the eye.
This week Correios (the state-owned company responsible for the Brazilian postal service) released a stamp depicting former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It is legal to pay that type of homage to people who are still alive, if they won a Nobel prize or an Olympic golden medal. Or if they are former presidents. Naturally, some complained that Lula was into some sort of self-praising.
Anyways, presidential stamps have some interesting stories behind them. Continue reading Presidents in stamps