“The postman no longer rings twice,” wrote Frank DeFilippo, in a recent column posted by news outlets in Maryland and Pennsylvania. In contrast, he added, “back in the day the Pony Express and its daredevil riders became early western cinematic celebrities for braving treacherous terrain, marauding bandits and worse weather than Texas and yet relaying

The happiest place on earth is…. Not Disneyland or Disney World but… …Finland? Apparently that’s the case. In fact, in 2020, for the fourth year in a row, Finland was ranked as the happiest country in the world, according to the 2021 World Happiness Report, a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network that was

Who has appeared on the most US postage stamps? It’s not a trick question. Rather, not surprisingly, the answer is George Washington, who was, famously, “first in war, first in peace,” (and for the many years that Washington Senators baseball team existed, “last in the American League.”) Washington not only appeared on many stamps, in

When President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, he continued a bizarre pattern that began in 1840 and (much to Joe Biden’s relief) apparently ended in 1980. Consider: William Henry Harrison, who was elected in 1840 died (probably from drinking bad water) in April 1841. Abraham Lincoln, who was elected to his first term in

You would think that after writing 337 #stampoftheday posts, that a stamp could no longer surprise me. While you’d usually be right. Today you are wrong. The stamp that surprised me is a 5-cent stamp, issued in May 1907, that portrays Pocahontas, who died on March 21, 1617. It was one of three issued in