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		<title>Happy Darwin Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/02/12/happy-darwin-day/</link>
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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 and these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog!</title>
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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
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		<title>Crazy GB stamp mixture on one envelope!</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2008/02/22/crazy-gb-stamp-mixture-on-one-envelope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This crazy envelope surely has to win some kind of prize for its eccentric mix of British commemorative and definitive stamps from many different years and issues! Posted on 7 October 2003, it carries the following stamps (running clockwise):
11 1/2p - Policeman Directing Traffic issued on 26 September 1979 as part of the 150th Anniversary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good King Wenceslas, the Page and the Peasant</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/12/03/good-king-wenceslas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas from Penny Black 1840! I have just made this little video of the 1973 British commemorative stamps for Christmas telling the story of Good King Wenceslas - Good King Wenceslas, the Page and the Peasant.

The stamps were issued as a se-tenant strip with a slightly higher value 3 1/2 pence stamp issued separately.




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		<title>The Twelve Days of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always loved these 1977 Christmas stamps because they were one of the first sets I collected as a child, eagerly waiting for different images to arrive on letters and then steaming them off Christmas card envelopes to make up the full set of six.
The five 7 pence stamps represent different lines of the Christmas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Royal Silver Wedding Anniversary 1948</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/11/22/the-royal-silver-wedding-anniversary-1948/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary this week I thought this stamp might make a timely post - The Royal Silver Wedding Stamp issued in 1948 to celebrate 25 years of marriage between Queen Elizabeth II's parents King George VI and the Queen Consort, Elizabeth (later known throughout her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Defeat of the Spanish Armada</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/10/27/the-defeat-of-the-spanish-armada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to have got tickets for the première showing of Elizabeth: The Golden Age  starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush at the Rome Film Festival last week. The film was a sumptuous romp through history with Cate Blanchett as fabulous as ever - the scenes showing the defeat of the Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1981 FDC Guernsey Diana and Charles Stamp</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/10/08/1981-fdc-guernsey-diana-and-charles-stamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst news broadcasts the world over follow the Diana Inquest I thought I'd post this First Day of Issue Postcard featuring the Guernsey 12p stamp featuring Prince Charles and Lady Diana (as she was then known) together on the occasion of their wedding on 29 July 1981. The photograph shows the couple at the announcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George VI stamp find in mixed bag!</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/09/23/george-vi-stamp-find-in-mixed-bag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the fun sides to buying the occasional mixed bag of stamps is that you'll inevitably find the odd rarity that pays back your minimal investment. For example, I was delighted to come across this George VI  £1 brown (SG 478b).  First issued on 1 October 1948 this stamp is actually harder to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1979 GB commemoratives</title>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2007/09/17/1979-commemorativesposted-last-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an interesting curiosity...A very nice strip of three London Post c.1839 13p GB commemorative stamps on an envelope above another strip of three Policeman on the Beat 10p GB stamps. What makes this unusual, however, is that I received this envelope in the post the other day – in fact if you look carefully [...]]]></description>
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