ISSUE 3 - March 4, 2011 - Stamp News Online Magazine
March is Women's History Month
Women on Stamps
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Queen Victoria The first postage stamp, issued May 6, 1840, picturing a young Queen Victoria. Because Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps, they still are the only nation that does not need to have the country name on their stamps. |
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Queen Isabella |
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Turkey - Women's Suffrage |
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| Women in the People's Republic of China | |
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Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union Spy during the American Civil War. |
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19th Ammendment The 19th Ammendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified August 26, 1920. The fight for woman's suffrage had been won, ending a struggle that began in the mid-19th century. from Celebrate the Century 1920s 1998 USPS |
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When millions of men joined the armed forces millions of women took over factory jobs and made up more than one-third of the civilian workforce. Millions of women also served as volunteers. from Celebrate the Century 1940s 1999 USPS |
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Madame Curie is famous for her work on radioactivity and was the first person ever honored with two Nobel Prizes, in physics and chemistry. |
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Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross |
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Australia Post celebrates 100 Years of International Women’s Day |
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| Eminent women named as the 2011 Australian Legends - Eva Cox AO, Elizabeth Evatt AC, Germaine Greer, and Anne Summers AO | |
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Juliette Gordon Low - Founder of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. |
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Pocahontas, assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown and married English settler John Rolfe. |
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| Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. | |
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Pearl Buck award-winning American writer. |
| March is Women's History Month, click to link to http://womenshistorymonth.gov/ | |
