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		<title>First transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2010/05/21/first-transatlantic-flight-by-charles-lindbergh/</link>
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		<title>John Fitzgerald Kennedy &#8211; The Eternal Flame</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/11/22/jfk-eternal-flame/</link>
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		<title>Sika Deer on 1970 USSR tourism stamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've always loved the dramatic design of this 10 kopeks stamp issued in 1970 by the USSR. Using only two colours - a warm orange-brown for the two Sika Deer at the centre of the design and the surrounding border, and a cooler and darker sage green for the forest in which they inhabit - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/11/08/sika-deer-on-1970-ussr-tourism-stamp/</link>
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		<title>Apollo 8 and Earthrise United States postage stamp</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/07/18/apollo-8-and-earthrise-united-states-postage-stamp/</link>
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		<title>Bruce Lee miniature sheet</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/06/10/bruce-lee-miniature-sheet/</link>
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		<title>Utagawa Toyokuni on 1971 Hungarian postage stamp</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/04/16/utagawa-toyokuni-on-1971-hungarian-postage-stamp/</link>
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		<title>The Rebirth of Industry in the Republic of Korea 1955</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've always liked this rough cut South Korean stamp with its strong central motif of a germinating seed cupped in a pair of hands with industrial smoke stack chimneys and a huge dam set against the natural landscape of mountains - representing here the Rebirth of Industry in the country. The landscape looks rather like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/03/23/the-rebirth-of-industry-in-the-republic-of-korea-1955/</link>
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		<title>Happy Darwin Day!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/02/12/happy-darwin-day/</link>
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		<title>Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose &#8211; Bengali polymath</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2009/01/15/sir-jagadish-chandra-bose-bengali-polymath/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas from the Penny Black 1840 Blog! To read more about the featured stamps read The Twelve Days of Christmas]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pennyblack1840.com/blog/2008/12/24/xmas/</link>
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