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		<title>First transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day 21 May, 1927, American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh made history when he successfully completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The transatlantic flight left from New York and landed in Paris and was made in the monoplane Spirit of Saint Louis and took about 33.5 hours to complete the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Fitzgerald Kennedy &#8211; The Eternal Flame</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/11/22/jfk-eternal-flame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John F Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States was assassinated on this day - 22 November - in 1963. He was shot dead in Dallas, Texas, while riding in an open car, in a killing that sent shock waves across the entire world. Less than a year later on 29 May, 1964 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apollo 8 and Earthrise United States postage stamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This United States postage stamp (Scott #1371) was issued on 5 May, 1969, just months before the Apollo 11 mission and the first moonwalk. Apollo 8 was, instead, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon and the first manned voyage to return to planet Earth from another celestial body i.e. Earth's Moon. The design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Lee miniature sheet</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/06/10/bruce-lee-miniature-sheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Bruce Lee miniature sheet was issued by Abkhazia for the China '96 9th Asian International Philatelic Exhibition. China '96 took place in Beijing from 18 May to 24 May 1996 and celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Modern Chinese Postal Service. The four stamps all feature an iconic image of Bruce Lee in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utagawa Toyokuni on 1971 Hungarian postage stamp</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/04/16/utagawa-toyokuni-on-1971-hungarian-postage-stamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 19th century Japanese artists of the floating world very much in vogue this spring with two major exhibitions running in European capital cities at the moment - Utagawa Hiroshige in Rome and Utagawa Kuniyoshi in London - I thought I'd share this 1971 Hungarian postage stamp featuring the work of another master of Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Darwin Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around February 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. In his On The Origin of Species, published in 1859, Darwin outlined how life evolved through natural selection over millions of years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose &#8211; Bengali polymath</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/01/15/sir-jagadish-chandra-bose-bengali-polymath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst the rest of the world took decades to begin to acknowledge the importance of the pioneering work of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) a commemorative Indian postage stamp had been issued to celebrate the centenary of his birth in 1958 with a portrait of the Bengali polymath. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog!</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2008/12/24/xmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog! To read more about the featured stamps read The Twelve Days of Christmas]]></description>
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		<title>1975 Polish Mountain Guides Anniversary Stamps</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2008/11/13/1975-polish-mountain-guides-anniversary-stamps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These four stamps were issued as joined pairs as part of a six stamp set - sadly I don't have the 4 Zt value stamps - on 30 September, 1975 to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Polish Mountain Guides. The stamps feature scenes of mountains paired with flowers and were designed by well-known Polish graphic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian postage stamps featuring other stamps!</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2008/09/05/italian-stamps-pictured-on-stamps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an interesting example of a vintage postcard design issued on the occasion of the XX National Philatelic Convention in Rome in 1965 (Convegno Nazionale Filatelico) which includes a 1961 Italian postage stamp within the design - in the carriage window there is a 30 lire stamp featuring the Sibilla Eritrea which was issued as [...]]]></description>
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