Quotes by People on Stamps

Susan B. Anthony

 

1820-1906

American reformer, suffragist

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Germaine Greer

Born 1939   

Australian writer, academic, journalist

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

1929-1994

American First Lady, wife of John F. Kennedy and editor

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Thomas Edison

1847-1931

American inventor

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The U.S. Post Office and Valentine's Day cards

Here is an interesting item about how something we take for grant it can make a huge impact.

"It can take people a while to grasp the implications of a new communications system. When Thomas Edison invented his improved telephone receiver in 1877, he thought it would become a medium for broadcasting concerts and plays to remote auditoriums. For twenty-five years after radio was developed at the end of the nineteenth century, people chiefly regarded it as a means of ship-to-shore communication.

"Then there's the US Postal System. For the first half century after its founding, its main function was to circulate newspapers to a national audience. Not that
you couldn't send letters, too, but the rates were much higher than for periodicals. In 1840, sending a letter from Boston to Richmond cost 25 cents a sheet, at a time when the average laborer made 75 cents a day. Postal inspectors were always on the alert for people who sent each other newspapers at the cheaper rate and added coded personal messages by putting pin pricks in certain letters.

Abigail Adams

 1744-1818

Wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth

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Christopher Columbus

1451-1506
Italian Explorer

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