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Episode 166: When I stick a buck in a jar at Starbucks, I’m not evading anybody's tax; I’m saving Starbucks .025%.
Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church (Ode to Joy) -- Clsing courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church "Blue Grass Trio" Amazing Grace recorded live by iPhone.
I collected postage stamps when stamps did more than validate use. Commemoratives were designed to tell a story.
Although the first postage stamps were issued in 1848, stamp collecting received its first emphasis with the Columbian Exposition of 1891/1892 in Chicago.
Two cent purple, “Columbus Landing in The New World…” The stamp was so popular that it morphed into regular usage and was finally phased out in 1922.
It remained the most popular stamp until it was succeeded by the Elvis Presley commemoratives, which will show you how far we have fallen as a nation…
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Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church (Ode to Joy) -- Clsing courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church "Blue Grass Trio" Amazing Grace recorded live by iPhone.
I collected postage stamps when stamps did more than validate use. Commemoratives were designed to tell a story.
Although the first postage stamps were issued in 1848, stamp collecting received its first emphasis with the Columbian Exposition of 1891/1892 in Chicago.
Two cent purple, “Columbus Landing in The New World…” The stamp was so popular that it morphed into regular usage and was finally phased out in 1922.
It remained the most popular stamp until it was succeeded by the Elvis Presley commemoratives, which will show you how far we have fallen as a nation…