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Jun-16-2010 09:09: Doe: 
blog    Blog Title: Gutenberg Printing Press
Could be, could be... :o
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Jun-15-2010 23:02: boogiechillin526: 
blog    Blog Title: Gutenberg Printing Press
The main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street has a Gutenberg Bible on permanent display. He created his own inks, and the colors are as fresh and bright today as they were when they were printed.
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Jun-15-2010 21:21: Jeff: 
blog    Blog Title: Gutenberg Printing Press
I had purchased a block of four stamps featuring Gutenberg's Printing Press, all different. Maybe they were cinderellas made for the museum?
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Dec-28-2009 04:00: Doe: 
blog    Blog Title: Krakatoa +
Edited original post to change the url for the postcard. New link- http://tinkermapsie.blogspot.com/2009/12/paricutin-volcano.html Peace, Doe
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Dec-10-2009 23:55: md frhm: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
WoW rzafar, many thanks for sharing the stamp image...indeed this is a nice one.
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Dec-10-2009 22:55: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
India issued this stamp on his 50th death anniversary with lines from his poem, sare jehan say acha hindustan hamara.
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Oct-08-2009 01:42: Jeff: 
blog    Blog Title: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe died 160 years ago today. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Forget-Edgar-Allan-Poe-Nevermore.html
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Sep-12-2009 22:06: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
His tomb outside the Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
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Sep-12-2009 21:57: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
Death He continued to travel in Europe and Asia until he fell ill in 1933. A year later he retired as a lawyer and spent his final years establishing the Idara Dar-ul-Islam, a place to study classical Islam and contemporary social sciences. After suffering for month with his illness, he died on 21 april 1938. He was buried in front of the Lahore Fort and Badshahi Masjid in Lahore.
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Sep-12-2009 21:44: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
Professional and Political Career On his return, he taught for a year at Government College, Lahore before leaving to practise as a barrister. While continuing his legal practise, he started writing. He also continued his political activities supporting the Khilafat Movement and in 1926 was elected to the Punjab Assembly. 4 years later he became the President of the Muslim League. It was in 1930...
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Sep-12-2009 21:34: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
He wrote it in his early days around the 1900s before this other great works such as Asrar-i-Khudi (1915), Shikwah and Jawab-i-Shikwah
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Sep-12-2009 01:55: md frhm: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
Nice envelope, and good postmark. I know little about Allama Iqbal and his composition, he wrote the famous patrotic poem Sare Jahn se Accha....Hindostaan Hamara during the Independence Struggle.
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Sep-11-2009 04:06: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
He continued his studies at Government College, Lahore (now Government College University) where he graduated cum laude. He studied philosophy, English literature and Arabic. While studying for his masters, he was influenced by Sir Thomas Arnold who encouraged his to go to Europe. While in the UK, he studied for a Bachelors of Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and became a barrister from Lincol...
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Sep-11-2009 03:57: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
He was educated at Scotch Mission College (now Government Murray College), Sialkot from where he graduated in 1892 becoming proficient in writing prose and poetry. He also became proficient in several languages including Persian, Urdu and English. Scotch Mission College was started by Scottish Missionaries in 1889. They continued to run it until it was nationalised in 1972 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutt...
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Sep-08-2009 04:00: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Muhammad Iqbal
Birth Iqbal was born on 09.11.1877 in the city of Sialkot near the Kashmir border. He was the eldest of 5 siblings who were all given a religious upbringing. His ancestors came from Kashmir. prestamped envelope send from Sialkot in the 1950s to the USA. due: 10 cents.
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Sep-03-2009 08:57: AlexG: 
blog    Blog Title: Cervantes, or Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Another engraved stamp of Cervantes, based on the same portrait. Spain, Scott #O15, 1916
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Aug-04-2009 21:53: Fisherman: 
blog    Blog Title: Irish Writers, Playwrights, Poets and more
James Joyce - Ulysses
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Aug-04-2009 21:52: Fisherman: 
blog    Blog Title: Irish Writers, Playwrights, Poets and more
Jonathan Swift - Gullivers Travels
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Aug-04-2009 21:51: Fisherman: 
blog    Blog Title: Irish Writers, Playwrights, Poets and more
Sean O'Casey - Shadow of a Gunman - Juno and the Paycock - The plough and the stars
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Aug-04-2009 21:50: Fisherman: 
blog    Blog Title: Irish Writers, Playwrights, Poets and more
Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield - The Deserted Village
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Aug-04-2009 18:58: Fisherman: 
blog    Blog Title: Who/What Do You Collect?
Being Irish I have grown up with the works of Irish writers and poets at school and in later life. So being part of my culture, language and mindset it is natural for me love and appreciate their work. I will look for some images to add to the blog on Irish writers. Thanks for creating this group.
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Jul-29-2009 01:38: md frhm: 
blog    Blog Title: Authors and Poets on souvenir sheets
Jayadeva was a Sanskrit poet, who lived in Orissa, circa 1200 AD. He is most known for his composition, the epic poem Gita Govinda, which depicts the divine love of the Hindu deity Krishna and his consort, Radha, and is considered an important text in the Bhakti movement of Hinduism. The Geet Govinda is the best known composition of Jayadeva. It is a lyrical poetry that is organized into twelve c...
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Jul-28-2009 19:01: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Authors and Poets on souvenir sheets
Amongst Victor Hugo's most famous works is The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) Sheets depicts the Disney version
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Jul-28-2009 18:50: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Authors and Poets on souvenir sheets
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) French more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo Due to the rise of Napoleon III and his policies, between 1855 and 1870, Victor Hugo lived with his family in exile in Guernsey.
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Jul-27-2009 21:59: rzafar: 
blog    Blog Title: Authors and Poets on souvenir sheets
3. Return of the King (2003) 0.40: Legolas Greenleaf 'Prince Of Mirkwood' (Orlando Bloom) 0.80: Frodo Baggins (Elijah Woods) 0.90: Meriadoc Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin - Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd) 1.30: King Elessar (Viggo Mortensen) 1.50: Gandalf the White (Sir Ian McKellen) 2.00: Gollum/Sméagol (Andy Serkis) more information on these sheets at: http://www.nzlotrstamps....
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