When he was a kid in the 1960s, my late brother was very proud of the fact that he could recite, from memory, the following statement: ”Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional […]
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Believe it or not, chicken is the focus of today’s #stampoftheday, which is a posting I’ve been looking forward to since I first saw this stamp in my late father’s albums. A 3-cent stamp, issued on September 9, 1948, it commemorates 100 years of the poultry industry. (I have no idea how they concluded that
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“Law and Order” is one of the most contentious – perhaps even one of the most noxious – political phrases of the last few decades. So I was stunned, when, while looking for something else in one of my late father’s stamp albums, I found it on a 6-cent stamp issued in May 1968. The
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It is oddly appropriate that I am writing today’s #stampoftheday while sitting on my back patio, having just returned from a wonderful and bucolic week on a lightly settled pond in Liberty, Maine. Oddly appropriate because the 3-cent stamp, which was issued in 1952, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Society
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Are you old enough to remember paperboys? I am. So I smile when I look at today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp, issued in 1952 in honor of America’s newspaper boys. Or as the stamp say, it’s “in recognition of the important service rendered their communities and their nation.” The stamp itself merits a closer look.
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The diminished importance of the American labor movement, the declining economic fortunes of working-class white Americans, and the ominous rise of violent ethnic nationalism can all be found in today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp marking Labor Day issued on September 3, 1956. Like most of the stamps from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s that I’ve
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The Palomar Mountain Observatory, one of the world’s most iconic and important scientific facilities, comes into to focus as todays #stampoftheday and, in doing so, provides some wise advice on life. The stamp in question is a 3-cent stamp issued in on August 30, 1948 that depicts the observatory, which in 1949 began using the
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There’s something poignant about the image and subject of today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp issued on August 29, 1049 to commemorate the last (and 83rd) annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a fraternal organization of men who had fought for the Union in the Civil War. While the GAR had more
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Today’s #stampoftheday travels to four important and very timely ethereal places (in contrast to yesterday’s stamp, which went to four distinct and important parts of the United States). A 3-cent stamp issued on August 24, 1953 that marked the 75th anniversary of the American Bar Association, it shows four figures—representing Wisdom, Justice, Divine Inspiration, and
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Oddly enough, today’s #stampoftheday, which features flora from four different parts of the US, captures a thought I had in the shower last night, not long after I posted yesterday’s #stampoftheday. It occurred to me that in the “before time” (i.e the time before COVID), we would often travel and one of the things I
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