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On Common Ground News Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height to be featured on “Forever Stamps”On Common Ground NewsThe U.S. Postal Service has announced the 2017 Forever Stamps will honor civil rights icon Dorothy Irene Height. Height, the fourth national president and national chair of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), is on the 40thstamp…

Space travel has always been nothing short of magical. The intrigue of John Glenn’s 1962 orbit of Earth and the popularity of the movies “The Right Stuff” and “Apollo 13” are proof of that. More: continued here

GulfNews Pyse stamps class in purebred Arabian race at Moscow DerbyGulfNewsTaleb Daher Al Muhairi, Emirates Equestrian Federation Secretary-General, and UAE Embassy officials in Moscow during the prize distribution ceremony for the …and more » More: continued here

Globe and Mail Stamps trade QB Henry Burris to TicatsGlobe and MailStill, given Tate's lack of CFL experience, the Stamps were keen to add Glenn. The 32-year-old quarterback was unhappy in Hamilton being relegated to a backup role or splitting time with Quinton Porter. Even so, Glenn threw for 3963 yards and 19 …From West…

Smithsonian Before Reefer Madness, High Times and 4/20, There Was the Marijuana Revenue StampSmithsonianWhen the United States government issued its official Marijuana Revenue Stamps in 1937, the year after the exploitative film Reefer Madness declared weed a national scourge, it didn't engrave a special issue tax stamp with a distinctive cannabis leaf, … More: continued here

(Washington, DC) — According to the federal government, nearly 32-million people are subsisting on food stamps. The latest count represents an increase of 700-thousand people in just one month, roughly equivalent to the number of recent monthly job losses. More: continued here