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New Stamp Issue: 50th Anniversary of First Manned Spaceflight

by admin on May 4, 2011

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — The Postal Service dedicated two stamps today commemorating two historic events — one that occurred a half century ago, and the second that’s making history now.

The 50th anniversary of America’s first manned spaceflight and an unmanned spacecraft currently charting planet Mercury were commemorated today on two 44-cent First-Class Forever stamps. The dedication ceremony took place next to a seven-story replica of the rocket Alan Shepard piloted to become America’s first man in space. A second stamp celebrates the MESSENGER Mission spacecraft that is currently orbiting and charting planet Mercury. [click to continue…]

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New Stamp Issue: Latin Music Legends

by admin on March 1, 2011

On March 16, 2011 in Austin, Texas, USPS will issue a Latin Music Legends commemorative series of stamps.

The five stamps feature Selena, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz.  As with all commemorative stamps in 2011, these stamps will be “forever” stamps.  The series was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland.

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1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps

February 14, 2011

The 1930 Graf Zeppelins were a set of three commemorative postage stamps issued by the United States in 1930. Although the stamps were valid for postage shipped via the Zeppelin Pan American flight from Germany to the United States (via Brazil), the set was marketed to collectors and was largely intended to promote the route. […]

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Inverted Jenny

November 24, 2008

The Inverted Jenny is a United States postage stamp first issued on May 10 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately. Only one pane of 100 of the invert stamps was ever found, making this error one of the most prized in all philately; […]

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Innocent Branches in War

August 3, 2005

Removing the dead, brown branches of your tomato plant is similar to war: you only want to remove the bad branches (the antagonists), but you end up pulling the green branches (the innocent) despite your best intentions.

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Difficult People

August 3, 2005

Radio commentaries this morning dealt with difficult supervisors. What do we do when our supervisors are unapproachable, impolite, and unprofessional? If you think about it, they should be the least ones you should upset, but if they do not treat you properly, you have a predicament. You don”t have to be miserable. Go to the […]

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