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Post by REL1948 on Nov 18, 2024 13:18:50 GMT
Happy Birthday Louis-Jacques Daguerre!
Louis-Jacques Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognized primarily for his significant contributions to the field of photography. He is most famously known for developing the daguerreotype process of photography, which became the first commercially successful photographic process in the mid-19th century. Before his adventures in photography, Daguerre was a skilled decorator and creator of theater sets, and was a pioneer in diorama presentation. His fascination with light effects on painted surfaces eventually led him towards experiments with light-sensitive chemicals, and the quest for a process to capture images permanently.
In the 1820s, Daguerre formed a partnership with Nicéphore Niépce, another pioneering French inventor, who had been working on early photographic processes. Following Niépce's death in 1833, Daguerre continued their experiments, ultimately developing a process that involved exposing a silver-plated sheet of copper, treated with iodine vapor, to create a light-sensitive surface. The resulting image, known as a daguerreotype, was made visible by exposing it to mercury vapor and then set by dipping in a salt solution. This process, announced to the world in 1839 and named after its inventor, was a major milestone in the development of photography. Daguerre's work laid the foundation for the photographic processes that would continue to evolve throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
France, 1939 Yvert & Tellier number 42, commemorative postage stamp with portraits of Niépce and Daguerre; Centenaire de la photographie.
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 18, 2024 13:30:08 GMT
Happy Birthday Sojourner Truth!
Born November 18, 1797, died November 26, 1883.
She was a prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist in the 19th century. Born into slavery, she gained her freedom and became a powerful speaker against slavery and in support of women's rights, leaving a significant impact on these reform movements. Her birth name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born enslaved in New York. She escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826, and later successfully sued for the freedom of her son, becoming one of the first black women to win such a case against a white man.
In 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth and embarked on a journey to "speak the truth" about the evils of slavery and the necessity of equal rights for all. She is best known for her speech, often titled "Ain't I a Woman," delivered at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851. In addition to her advocacy for abolition and women's rights, Truth also championed prison reform and property rights for former slaves. Her tireless work earned her an invitation to the White House by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
United States, 1986, Scott number 2203, 22c Black Heritage: Sojourner Truth
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Post by franoise on Nov 18, 2024 13:35:54 GMT
France, 1939 Yvert & Tellier number 42, commemorative postage stamp with portraits of Arago and Daguerre; Centenaire de la photographie - Arago and Daguerre.
Rob The man on the left is Niepce,not Arago (Arago is supposed to be the speaker) |
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 18, 2024 13:41:23 GMT
Happy Birthday Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Born: November 18, 1860
He rose to fame as a concert pianist, noted for his striking looks and great charm. He was also a composer, producing an Opera and a Symphony, popular in their day. As a member of the Polish National Committee during WW I he became a spokesman for an independent state of Poland. In 1919 he became the first prime inister of Poland, and represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference of the same year, signing the Treaty of Versailles.
United States, 1960 Scott number 1160 Champion of Liberty Issue 8c
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 18, 2024 13:45:09 GMT
France, 1939 Yvert & Tellier number 42, commemorative postage stamp with portraits of Arago and Daguerre; Centenaire de la photographie - Arago and Daguerre.
Rob The man on the left is Niepce,not Arago (Arago is supposed to be the speaker) Thank you Franoise, I corrected the text. Rob |
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Post by franoise on Nov 19, 2024 12:32:45 GMT
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov,a famous Russian scientist and writer,was born on 19 November 1711 (according to the Gregorian calendar) He was a professor at the St Petersburg Academy of science and a founder of Moscow University (which bears his name)
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 19, 2024 15:26:03 GMT
Happy Birthday Indira Gandhi !
Born November 19th 1917, Died: October 31, 1984.
She was the first and only female Prime Minister of India. She first served from 1966 to 1977, and then again from 1980 until she was killed in 1984.
Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister and she grew up around politics which shaped her goals from a young age.
At first, Gandhi was thought to be a "puppet" of the Congress party leaders. Soon enough, however, she became a strong leader in her own right and took control of her power. Her policies would ultimately split the party.
Gandhi's biggest achievement was leading India to win the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War which made India the main power in South Asia.
In 1975, Gandhi declared a State of Emergency, thereby restricting personal freedoms and controlling the press. While she was criticized for this, it ultimately allowed her to implement socialist policies and programs for the benefit of poor people.
Gandhi was a strong supporter of India's nuclear program. She also dealt with the Punjab crisis and Operation Blue Star.
She was killed by two of her Sikh bodyguards in 1984, which then led to riots against Sikhs across India.
Even though she was controversial, Gandhi is still an important figure in Indian history and is remembered as the "Iron Lady" of India.
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India, 1984 Scott number 1069
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 19, 2024 15:45:08 GMT
Happy Birthday George Rogers Clark
Born November 19th 1752, Died February 13th 1818.
He was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky (then part of Virginia) throughout much of the war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia in 1778 and Vincennes in 1779 during the Illinois campaign, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory (then part of the British Province of Quebec) and earned Clark the nickname of "Conqueror of the Old Northwest". The British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. George's younger brother was William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame.
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United States,1929 Scott number 651, 150th anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sackville to George Rogers Clark. It's now the present site of Vincennes Indiana.
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 19, 2024 16:03:43 GMT
Happy Birthday August René Caillié !
He was born 19th November 1799, Died 17th May 1838.
He was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city.[3] Caillié was therefore the first to return alive. Caillié was born in western France in a village near the port of Rochefort. His parents were poor and died while he was still young. At the age of 16 he left home and signed up as a member of the crew on a French naval vessel sailing to Saint-Louis on the coast of modern Senegal in western Africa. He stayed there for several months and then crossed the Atlantic to Guadeloupe on a merchantman. He made a second visit to West Africa two years later when he accompanied a British expedition across the Ferlo Desert to Bakel on the Senegal River.
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Dahomey 1939, Scott numbers 108 - 110. Common design type also used in: French Guinea, French Sudan, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo.  France 1999 - Anniversary of the Birth of René Caillié, Scott number 2731
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Post by TimG on Nov 20, 2024 3:52:01 GMT
Well, it appears the birthday well ran dry and so as not to leave this day without a Happy Birthday, let's give it to bonnie old Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution in 1649. Here is the king who pushed England into democracy by pushing so hard against it. As part of the Kings and Queens, the House of Stuart series, Great Britain issued the following stamp featuring Charles (June 15, 2010 - Scott #2808, SG #3088)  |
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 20, 2024 5:11:03 GMT
Happy Birthday Edwin Powell Hubble
Born: November 20th, 1889
He proved the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and discovered evidence for an expanding universe. Hubble also developed a system for classifying galaxies, which is still used today.
He initially pursued a career in law at his father's request, earning degrees from both the University of Chicago and Oxford University. After his father's death in 1913, Hubble returned to his passion for astronomy, completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in 1921.
In 1919, Hubble joined the staff at the Mount Wilson Observatory, where he would spend the rest of his career. Using the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, he identified Cepheid variables in several nebulae in 1924, proving there were separate galaxies outside the Milky Way. This discovery expanded our understanding of the universe's size and structure.
Hubble developed a system for classifying galaxies based on their appearance, known as the Hubble Sequence. In 1929, he discovered the relationship between a galaxy's distance and its recession velocity, later known as Hubble's Law. This provided evidence for an expanding universe, a concept that would revolutionize cosmology.
During World War II, Hubble worked as a civilian for the U.S. Army, improving the design and performance of bombs and rockets. For his contributions, he received the Legion of Merit award. After the war, Hubble spent much of his later career campaigning to have astronomy recognized as part of physics, hoping to make astronomers eligible for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Hubble died of cerebral thrombosis on September 28, 1953, in San Marino, California. His legacy lives on through the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990 and named in his honor.
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United States, 2008, Scott number 4226 from the American Scientists series on a First Day Cover.
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 20, 2024 5:29:13 GMT
Happy Birthday Robert F. Kennedy
Born November 20th, 1925.
He was the younger brother of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United Sates (1960-1963). He attended Harvard University (1948) and the University of Virginia Law School (1951), and he served as attorney general during the Kennedy presidency. When Lyndon B. Johnson, John Kennedy's vice president and successor, decided not to run for re-election in 1968, Robert Kennedy began his campaign for the presidency. He was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968, by an Arab immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan.
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United States, issued January 12, 1979, Scott number 1770.
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Post by Hugh on Nov 20, 2024 13:06:58 GMT
Sir Wilfred Laurier ... was born on November 20, 1841. He was Canada's first francophone prime minister. He was a member of parliament for 45 years and the Leader of the Liberal Party for 32 years. Stamp:Canada - 60th Year of Confederation Series Sir Wilfred Laurier Issued on June 29, 1927 5c, Violet Unitrade 144  |
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 20, 2024 13:49:15 GMT
Happy Birthday Chester Gould
Born November 20th 1900, Died May 11, 1985. He was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 21, 2024 5:27:45 GMT
Happy Birthday Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Born on November 21st, 1694 in Paris where on May 30th, 1778 he also died. A French writer and philosopher, enjoying international fame during his lifetime and considered today as an emblematic and central figure of the Enlightenment .
Passionate about the arts and sciences, a friend and collaborator with the encyclopedists, Voltaire marked his era with his literary production and political commitments. His influence on the educated classes was considerable in the decades preceding the French Revolution and throughout the 19th century, particularly in anti-clerical bourgeois circles .
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France 1949, Scott number B239
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Post by franoise on Nov 21, 2024 9:14:06 GMT
René Magritte was born on 21 November 1898
"René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art" (from Wikipedia)
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Post by Hugh on Nov 21, 2024 13:20:43 GMT
Sir Samuel Cunard ... born on November 21, 1787 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He founded the Cunard shipping line and established the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. His father was a Loyalist émigrée who relocated to Halifax after the American Revolution. Stamps:Canada - Pioneers of Transatlantic Mail Service Sir Samuel Cunard (with the SS Britannia) [The cancelation printed on the stamp is the day the ship first arrived in Liverpool) Issued on May 28, 2004 49c, Self-adhesive Unitrade 2041 The complementary stamp on the right features Sir Hugh Allan (and, the ship North American). In the mid-19th century he used mail contracts to subsidize regular steamship lines between Montreal and Britain. [The cancellation on the stamp is the date the North American first sailed for Canada from Liverpool) Unitrade 2042 Unitrade 2041a ... Se-tenant pair The stamps are perforated. This is the first time self-adhesive stamps were printed this way in Canada.  |
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Post by TimG on Nov 21, 2024 22:35:03 GMT
Happy birthday Friedrich Schleiermacher, born November 21, 1768. He was a German Reformed theologian, know for his attempts to blend Enlightenment insights with traditional Protestant Christianity. He was a key figure in developing what is known as "higher critical" approaches to biblical study which also made him the father of modern liberal theology (not my personal cup of tea). The German Federal Republic issued a stamp commemorating his 250th birthday on November 2, 2018 (Scott#3066, SG #4219). The stamp has a quote in German which is roughly translated as: "There is something good and worthy to do in every moment." I'm open to correction.  |
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Post by franoise on Nov 22, 2024 7:37:48 GMT
French writer André Gide was born on 22 November 1869. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947  |
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 22, 2024 11:38:37 GMT
Happy Birthday Charles de Gaulle
Born November 22nd, 1890, Died November 9, 1970.
He led the Free French Forces during World War II and later served as President of France. He is known for his efforts to maintain the independence and global influence of France.
De Gaulle began his career in the French Army before World War I. He was captured by German forces during the war and spent time as a prisoner. Between the wars, de Gaulle developed new ideas about mobile armored warfare, but these were not widely accepted by French military leaders.
When France fell to Nazi Germany in 1940, de Gaulle escaped to England. He made a radio broadcast on June 18, calling for French resistance against the German occupation. This speech became known as the "Appeal of 18 June." De Gaulle led the Free French Forces throughout World War II, often disagreeing with Allied leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After the war, de Gaulle briefly led the French government but resigned in 1946. He returned to power in 1958 during a political crisis. De Gaulle established a new system of government called the Fifth Republic and became its first president.
As president, de Gaulle pursued policies to strengthen France's position in the world. He developed France's nuclear weapons program and withdrew the country from NATO's military command. De Gaulle also blocked the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union.
In 1968, de Gaulle faced major protests by students and workers. He briefly left France during this crisis but returned to restore order. De Gaulle resigned in 1969 after losing a referendum on government reforms. He died the following year at his home in eastern France
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France 1971, Scott numbers 1322-1325 + label.
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 22, 2024 11:52:25 GMT
Happy Birthday George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Born November 22nd, 1819, Died December 22nd, 1880.
Mary Ann Evans is known more by her pseudonym George Eliot, a name she took up in the 1850s when she started to publish works of fiction.
Her first novel "Adam Bede" (1859) was immediately successful. Other works followed such as "Mill on the Floss" (1860) and her masterpiece "Middlemarch" (1871-2) now regarded as one of the most important nineteenth century novels, all written with Eliot's characteristic realistic style.
Eliot's personal life was scandalous, from 1854 to 1878, she lived openly with the married journalist George Henry Lewes, whose wife was already involved with another man. Upon Lewes' death she married a Scottish banker 20 years her junior.
Rob
Great Britain 1980 Stanley Gibbons number SG1126
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Post by hdm1950 on Nov 22, 2024 12:47:37 GMT
Happy Birthday Charles de Gaulle
Born November 22nd, 1890, Died November 9, 1970.
de Gaulle caused a major controversy in Canada Rob REL1948 during his visit to Expo 67 by declaring “Vive le Québec libre.” It has a lasting affect on our country. It emboldened the separatist movement in Quebec. link |
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 22, 2024 15:37:57 GMT
Happy Birthday Charles de Gaulle
Born November 22nd, 1890, Died November 9, 1970.
de Gaulle caused a major controversy in Canada Rob REL1948 during his visit to Expo 67 by declaring “Vive le Québec libre.” It has a lasting affect on our country. It emboldened the separatist movement in Quebec. link  Ouch...
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Post by REL1948 on Nov 23, 2024 14:02:31 GMT
Happy Birthday Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)
Born November 23rd, 1887, Died February 2nd, 1969.
An English actor, he was known professionally as Boris Karloff and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film Frankenstein (1931), his 82nd film, established him as a horror icon, and he reprised the role for the sequels Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939). He also appeared as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932), and voiced the Grinch in, as well as narrating, the animated television special of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), which won him a Grammy Award.
Aside from his numerous film roles (174 films), Karloff acted in many live stage plays and appeared on dozens of radio and television programs as well. For his contribution to film and television, Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 8 February 1960.
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United States,1997, Scott number 3170.
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Post by franoise on Nov 24, 2024 10:31:59 GMT
Charles d'Orleans was born on 24 November 1394 He was a French prince,duke of Orleans and Valois,but is best known for his poetic works written during his long English captivity following the battle of Azincourt (1415)
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