Canada Post honors Fay Wray with a postage stamp
Best known as the heroine in the hands of an infatuated ape - King Kong - Fay Wray also stared with such leading men as Gary Cooper, Joel McCrae and Henry Fonda. Now, the Cardston, Alberta native will star on her own postage stamp.
CANADAPOST
December 30, 2005
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Canada Post announces new stamps for the Chinese Lunar New Year
On January 6, 2006, Canada Post will issue a stamp and a special souvenir sheet to commemorate the 2006 Lunar New Year (Year of the Dog). The stamps recognize the Asian contribution to the multicultural richness of Canadian life in anticipation of the Lunar New Year that begins on January 29, 2006.
CANADAPOST
December 27, 2005
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Hillary Clinton continues her fight for Purple Heart stamp
Senator Hillary Clinton is continuing to press Postmaster General John Potter to keep issuing the Purple Heart Stamp honoring the heroes who have received this medal. She has launched a petition inviting those who agree with the effort to save the Purple Heart Stamp to add their name to her letter.
MIDHUDSONNEWS
December 24, 2005
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2006 Definitive Stamps
The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled its definitive stamps, postal cards and other stamp products to be issued in 2006.
USPS
December 18, 2005
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House of the Future
The Hungarian Post Office commemorates the ceremonial opening of the House of the Future by issuing a regular stamp.
POSTA.HU
December 16, 2005
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Canada's holiday stamps
The Ottawa Citizen reports that for the first time, Canada Post is offering both religious and non-religious stamps during the Christmas season.
December 14, 2005
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Mini-Sheet '30th Circus Festival'
The International Monte-Carlo Circus Festival was created in 1974 on the initiative of the Prince Rainier III Who lent his credibility to it in a difficult period. This world-renowned event became a reference and the most sought-after distinction by the artists of the Ring, a profession among the most difficult in the world, a calling for the pleasure of the old and young people.
OETP-MONACO.COM
December 13, 2005
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Poster of the 30th Circus Festival
Reusing of the official poster of the 30th International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo that will be held in the Big Top of Fontvieille from January 19 until 27, 2006.
OETP-MONACO.COM
December 12, 2005
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MonacoPhil 2006
This 6th International Philatelic Exhibition will be held, as usually, on the "Terrasses de Fontvieille", at the Stamp and Coin Museum and at the "Salle du Canton", next to the "Monaco Top Cars" Collection of H.S.H. the Prince of Monaco, on the "Club de Monte-Carlo" initiative in collaboration with the Stamp Issuing Office. The Exhibition of the "100 stamps and philatelic documents among the rarest in the World" is still a jewel and will be shown in a De Luxe catalogue, a real reference for all the philatelic libraries.
OETP-MONACO.COM
December 11, 2005
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Singapore mark Year of the Dog
SingPost kick off their 2006 stamp program with the issue of a new set of stamps on 6 January to mark the Year of the Dog.
December 10, 2005
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Larkin lobbies to retain Purple Heart postage stamp
State Senator William Larkin of Cornwall-on-Hudson, who was a driving force in creating the Purple Heart postage stamp and building the Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor, is now on his latest crusade, to save the postage stamp.
MIDHUDSONNEWS
December 08, 2005
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New 39-cent stamp on sale Thursday
The US Postal Service will begin selling a new 39-cent stamp portraying the Statue of Liberty and the American flag on Thursday to be used when the postal rate hike goes into effect Jan. 8.
WASHINGTONPOST
December 07, 2005
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Orange Revolution anniversary
The world was gripped last winter by scenes of popular revolution in Ukraine, with orange-clad demonstrators pitched out in the snow fighting against the criminality of the old regime and for their democratic rights.
December 06, 2005
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Religious stamps not outlawed after all
The annual brouhaha over whether it's Christmas or "the holidays" spilled over into the U.S. Postal Service this week, with the Internet and public conversation awash with horror that no new religiously themed stamp was printed for the 2005 season.
POST-GAZETTE
December 04, 2005
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Postal Service unveils 2006 Commemorative stamps
What do Baseball, Batman, Brooklyn's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Hattie McDaniel and Harley Davidson have in common? They're all just a sampling of American icons that will be highlighted on 2006 Commemorative postage stamps, the Postal Service announced today.
USPS
December 01, 2005
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