ARTICLES IN THE TOPICAL TIME MAGAZINE
Listings for Letters S, T and U
(Organized by Topic)

Over the 55 years that the American Topical Association has been in existence, many articles have appeared in our award-winning magazine, Topical Time. We have tried to group these articles together by topic, realizing that this could never be 100% accurate. There are many cross-over topics. We have tried to make two copies where the subject is questionable as to the main topic and put them in both areas. The "General" sub-topics shown under several topics include articles that are of a general nature and not specific subjects. If you collect a certain topic, it might be advisable to obtain the items in the general category as well, where available. The listing is divided down by main and sub-topics. When there are sub-topics, the number of pages beside the main topic includes ALL of the sub-topic pages. Those items with the symbol (#) after them indicate sub-topics are available, and can be seen by double clicking on the main topic name.

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This list is current through the January - February 2004 issue of Topical Time.
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• S Listings (#)

  • Scientists (9)

  • Scouts (14)

  • Shells (8)

  • Sherlock Holmes (7)

  • Ships (80) (#)

    • General Articles (37) (#)

      • 1930's Ships of Papua New Guinea (1)

      • Armchair Voyage, An (1)

      • Atlantic Blue Riband (1)

      • Black Ships of the Evil Mien (2)

      • Four Chaplains (1)

      • German Lifeboat Association (1)

      • Hokule'a - Polynesian Canoe (2)

      • How Much Does a Ship Weigh? (1)

      • International Canals (7)

      • John Williams - Missionary Shipbuilder (2)

      • Looking Through a Ship Collection (2)

      • Lost at Sea (2)

      • Mysterious Phoenicians - Phoenician Ships and Voyages (3)

      • Newfoundland Ships on Stamps (1)

      • Of Shoes and Ships (2)

      • Ships for a Show (1)

      • Ship Stamp Forum (3)

      • Ship Stamps From Canoes to Submarines (1)

      • Shipwreck of the Medusa, 1816 (2)

      • Slips on Ship Stamps - Errors (4)

      • Story of Ships on Stamps (5)

      • Through the Lion's Gate (2)

      • Types of Ship Stamps (1)

      • Ways to Save Ships on Stamps (2)

      • Why Not These Vessels, Too? (1)

    • Cable (2)

    • Catapult (1)

    • Equipment on Board (1)

    • Freighters (2)

    • Landing Ship Tank (2)

    • Mayflower (2)

    • Ocean Liners / Passenger Ships (7)

    • Phoenician Ships (3)

    • Sailing (7)

    • Covers (7)

    • War Ships (11)

    • Yachting (5)

  • Signatures / Autographs (9)

  • Space (80) (#)

    • General Articles (21) (#)

    • Astrology - Astronomy - Rocketry (2)

    • Europa Space Exhibit (1)

    • Haiti Honors GT-7 and Space Rendezvous (1)

    • JFK and the Space Program (3)

    • Sheer Lunacy - Man in Moon (4)

    • Societa Trasporti Missilistici (1)

    • Space and the New Frontier (5)

    • Space on Stamps (3)

    • Space Variety Checklist (3)

    • Third World Space Firsts (4)

    • Three-D Stamps Honor Space (2)

    • Twenty Years After First Moon Landing (2)

    • US Space Stamps (2)

    • Apollo (6)

    • Apollo-Soyuz (25)

    • Brahe, Tycho (2)

    • Comets (3)

    • Gemini (2)

    • Mercury (4)

    • Rockets (1)

    • Satellites (4)

    • Science Fiction (1)

    • Shuttle (9)

    • Skylab (4)

    • Soyuz (15)

    • Space Walking (2)

    • UFOs (2)

    • Venus (1)

    • Voshkod/Vostok (3)

  • Sports (98) (#)

    • General Articles (26) (#)

      • 1972 Single-Handed Transatlantic Race (2)

      • Athlete and His Animal Counterpart (1)

      • Bibliography (5)

      • Game of Morabaraba (1)

      • Game of Ti-Khi (2)

      • Handbooks on Sports (1)

      • Meso-American Ballgame Complex (3)

      • Olympic Rings (2)

      • Problems of Classifying Sports / Olympic Stamps (1)

      • Regulation of Sports and Olympics (2)

      • Safety and Fairness in Sport (1)

      • Sokol Stamp Story (1)

      • Sport Precursors of Israel (1)

      • Sports and Recreation Checklist (3)

      • Sports on Stamps (5)

      • Sweet's Collection of Athletic Events (1)

      • Women's Sports and Stamps (3)

      • World Cooperation in Sports (2)

    • Bowling (2)

    • Fencing (1)

    • Football (2)

    • Gymnastics (2)

    • Hiking (1)

    • Hockey (1)

    • Hunting (3)

    • Judo / Karate / Tai Kwon Do (2)

    • Olympics (33)

    • Rodeos (1)

    • Skating (2)

    • Skiing (6)

    • Soccer (5)

    • Swimming (2)

    • Table Tennis (4)

    • Tennis (4)

    • Wrestling (1)

  • Stampic Twins (1)

  • Stamps on Stamps (7)

  • Statue of Liberty (10)

  • Statues (1)

  • Steel Industry (3)

  • Submarines (4)

  • Sugar (2)

• T Listings (#)

  • Tattooing (1)

  • Telecommunications (19)

  • Theater (13)

  • Time (11)

  • Topical Collecting (588) (#)

    • Also see Miscellaneous

    • General Articles (181) (#)

      • 1962’s Most Popular Topical Subjects (1)

      • 1984 Tax Law Changes (2)

      • Analogophilic Thesis of Marian Haydzicki (2)

      • An Art Form (2)

      • Birth and Growth of a Topical Collection (2)

      • By Topic (3)

      • Camel That Broke the Collector’s Back  (1)

      • Can Philatelists Have a Concern for Others?  (1)

      • Case of the Puzzling Date (2)

      • Classical Themes on Stamps (6)

      • Collection – From Beginning To End (2)

      • Collector’s Response to Exploitation (4)

      • Collecting Air Post Topicals (3)

      • Collecting Countries Topically (1)

      • Collecting for Beauty (2)

      • Collecting: Topical vs. Other (2)

      • Collecting Topical Stamps (2)

      • Communist Stamps or No? (2)

      • Definition of Topicals (1)

      • Dictators (1)

      • Discrimination and Selectivity in Topical Collecting (1)

      • Don’t Fight the Rules; Try to Understand Them (2)

      • Embellishing Your Topical Collection with Booklets (3)

      • Essig. Courvosier Led Topical Movement (2)

      • Evolution of a Thematic Exhibit (1)

      • Finding Your Topic in Unlikely Places (2)

      • First Topicals (2)

      • From a Topical Collector’s Diary (4)

      • Glimpse at Thematic Collecting in the Soviet Union (2)

      • Go With the Good Guys (1)

      • Guide for Topical Collecting (1)

      • Hole Story of Perfins (5)

      • How I Built My All-American Topical Collection (2)

      • Illustrating Stamp Discussions (1)

      • In Principio Erta Verbum (2)

      • Inclusive or Exclusive? One Viewpoint (3)

      • Information Retrieval and the Stamp Collector (2)

      • Instant Displays (1)

      • Is Your Collection a Topical or A Thematic (3)

      • It’s More Than Just Pretty Pictures (2)

      • Levels of Topical and Philatelic Knowledge (3)

      • Look at the Philatelic Market (2)

      • Making Your Topic Grow (2)

      • Mini Topical (1)

      • Miniature Sheets Colorful Topical Specialty (2)

      • My Collection of Autographed Stamps (2)

      • New Research Reveals Topical Collecting is Centenarian (2)

      • New Zealand Goes Topical (2)

      • Not All Topics are On Stamps (2)

      • Obtaining Topical Information (2)

      • Organizing a Topical Collection (1)

      • Personal Topical Collection (1)

      • Philatelic Elements in Topical Collecting (5)

      • Philatelic Literature Decade (2)

      • Philatelic Specialty Items (1)

      • Philately and the Energy Crisis (1)

      • Philately Keeps the Faith (1)

      • Philately on Stamps (1)

      • Philately – the Study of Stamps (2)

      • Pictorial Topicals (1)

      • Popularity of Topics (3)

      • Preparing Your First Topical Collection (3)

      • Primer for Critics of Topical Philately (19)

      • Principles of Thematic Philately (4)

      • Problems of Topical Stamp Collecting (1)

      • Publicity for Topical Collecting (2)

      • Rugged Individualism in Stamps (2)

      • Rules? What Rules? (2)

      • Russian Medals in a Topical Collection (1)

      • Sepia Inspection & Color Printer’s Die Proofs (1)

      • Sizes and Shapes of Stamps (11)

      • Sociological Aspects of Topicals (2)

      • Some Observations on Speculation in Stamps (2)

      • Some Second Thoughts on the Topical Explosion (2)

      • Some Thoughts on New Issues (3)

      • Sorting According to Topic (4)

      • Stamp Chart (10)

      • Stamp Preservation (2)

      • Stamps as Unique Primary Research Materials (2)

      • Stamps That Actually Talk (1)

      • Stumbling Into a Philatelic Twilight Zone (2)

      • Subject is Topical (2)

      • Tax Questions and Answers (4)

      • Thematic Philately, an International View (2)

      • Thematic Philately in Brazil (2)

      • Thematic Philately in France (2)

      • Thematic Philately in Great Britain (2)

      • Thematic Philately in Italy (2)

      • Thematic Philately in Korea (2)

      • Thematic Philately in Sweden (2)

      • Thematic Philately in Taiwan (2)

      • Thematics at Philympia (2)

      • Themes and Postal Wars (2)

      • Those Magnificent Topicals (4)

      • To Master a Topic (1)

      • Top Ten Topicals Nostalgic Memories (7)

      • Topical Collecting (3)

      • Topical Collecting in the Peoples Republic of China (2)

      • Topical Collecting, Its Metes & Bounds (2)

      • Topical Collection is Never Completed (1)

      • Topical Collection of Pre-Stamp Letters (3)

      • Topical Collectors and Black-Blot Issues (2)

      • Topical Detective Work (2)

      • Topical Highlights (2)

      • Topical Philately (1)

      • Topical Philately in Latvia (2)

      • Topical Postal Stationery  (1)

      • Topical Stamp Articles in the Popular Press (1)

      • Topical Stamp Collecting (2)

      • Topical Stamp Collecting Adventures (5)

      • Topical Stamp Layouts (2)

      • Topical Versus Thematic (4)

      • Topicals Defined (1)

      • Topicalize Your Company (2)

      • Topicals: Peace Preservers (1)

      • Topicals Move Forward (1)

      • Topics Amongst Bogus Issues (4)

      • Topics in Zimbabwe (2)

      • Trash on Your Album Page (1)

      • Trends in Topical Collecting and Exhibiting (3)

      • Trends of Stamp Designing (4)

      • Trials and Tribulations (5)

      • Two Kinds of Topical Collecting (1)

      • US Multiple Stamp Designs (1)

      • Various Countries (2)

      • What do ATA Members Collect – How Do They Mount and Arrange Their Stamps (2)

      • What Tax Records Must a Collector Keep? (2)

      • What to Collect in Thematics (1)

      • What Topicals Do the Russians Collect? (1)

      • World of Thematics (3)

      • World Wide Topical Firsts (3)

    • Checklists / Bios (12)

    • Cinderellas/Locals (47)

    • Computerizing (13)

    • Errors (19)

    • Essays / Proofs (3)

    • Exhibiting (80)

    • Meters / Cancels (77)

    • Overprints (2)

    • Personalized Stamps (4)

    • Postal Stationery (115)

    • Revenues (10)

    • Tagged Stamps (2)

    • Thematic Organizations (5)

    • Write-Ups (22)

  • Traffic Safety (2)

  • Trains (58)

  • Transportation (21)

  • Treasure Hunting (1)

  • TV / Radio (4)

  • Twelve Tribes of Israel (2)

  • Typewriter (3)

• U Listings (#)

  • UNESCO (1)

  • United Nations (44)

  • United States (see Americana)

  • United States Cities (6)

  • United States History (24)

  • United States Postal Service (5)

  • United States Stage and Screen Stars (15) (#)

    • Art of Charlie Chaplin (6)

    • Guys and Dolls - Directors and History (3)

    • Hail the King (Elvis) (4)

    • Star-Studded Stamps (2)

    • World War II Motion Pictures (6)

  • Universal Postal Union (7)