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		<title>John Fitzgerald Kennedy &#8211; The Eternal Flame</title>
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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>Bruce Lee miniature sheet</title>
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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>
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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>
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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>Amelia Earhart and U.S. Air Mail Stamps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day 20th May, in 1932, Amelia Earhart the American aviator, set off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland on the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman! The flight lasted 14 hours, 56 minutes and she landed in a field in Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland. This 8¢ U.S. Air Mail Stamp featuring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Anna Magnani Postage Stamp &#8211; 1997</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody living in Italy could have failed to notice that 2008 is the centenary year of the birth of one of Italy's greatest and best loved actresses, Anna Magnani, with numerous television documentaries, exhibitions, DVD releases and book publications accompanying the event. Sadly, Nannarella as she was affectionately known in Italy, died in 1973 but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winston Churchill at Race Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World leaders have always been an obvious choice as subjects on commemorative stamps but this stamp issued on 25 November, 1974 by Dominica on the occasional of the Centenary of Winston Churchill's birth on 30th November, 1874 is unusual in the informality of the setting. The one-half cent issue pictures Winston Churchill at the Race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln 1965 US stamp</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/12/15/abraham-lincoln-1965-us-stamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It probably won't come as a surprise that I have a particular liking for small stamps that have the feel of the very first stamp - the Penny Black! This 4 cent US postage stamp featuring President Abraham Lincoln was issued on 19 November, 1965 as part of the Prominent Americans Issue between 1965 -1978 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sima Guang &#8216;Breaking the Vat&#8217; on Chinese stamps</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/11/16/sima-guang-breaking-the-vat-on-chinese-stamps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a great example of why it's nice to get international snail-mail now and again! My writer friend Adam Williams sent me some documents from China a couple of years ago in a large envelope, quite literally, covered with commemorative stamps. The large block of twenty stamps on the right depicts an anecdote about the [...]]]></description>
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