US postage stamp -
- issued 1991 -
- in a series of stamps -
- with the theme -
- Immigrants / Prehistory.
Motif: -
People standing overlooking -
-The Bering Land Bridge.
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1943 US POSTAGE STAMPS
The Overrun Countries Series paid tribute -
- to thirteen countries overrun -
- and occupied by Axis powers.
Each stamp has a denomination of 5-cents -
- and shows the flag of -
- the honored country in natural colors.
Each flag is surrounded by a purple frame -
-with the mythological bird Phoenix on the left -
- symbolizing renewal of life and a kneeling figure -
- breaking the bonds of oppression on the right.
The countries honored are Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Norway, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, France,
Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria,
Denmark, and Korea.
The stamps were issued in that sequence -
- at various dates in 1943, except the Korea stamp -
-which was issued November 2, 1944.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882-1945 (63)
32. President
1933-1945 (51.-63.)
Stampcollectors are knowledgeable people.
Every thinkable subject under the sun -
- illustrated or in text -
- tells a story on small pieces of paper.
Franklin Roosevelt was an ardent stampcollector.
He had a deep understanding of the geographi -
- and the status -
- of the very diverse countries in Europe -
- at the outbreak of The Second World War.
David Henry Thoreau
1817-1862 (44)
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