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What about those of you in the US or Canada? Are there any 20th century figures you think ought to have appeared by now on your stamps?
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I'm surprised we haven't had Carl Sagan on a stamp yet.
I'm surprised you haven't had Benny Hill! 
Chris
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How about W.E.B. Du Bois?
He would have my vote!
Randy
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W.E.B. Du Bois has been on two US stamps.
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01:28:54am
I just watched the BBC interview of Sir Nicholas Winton this afternoon.
I often become bored to distraction at the repetitive and sometimes mindless commentary by the newsreaders on NBC, CBS, CNN and ABC which leads me to switch to the BBC or AL Jazeeria where there is a much wider variety of world news plus some very interesting in depth interviews or reports.
I am sure that before the weekend is out BBC will rebroadcast the Winton interview, and I would venture to guess not 1one in a hundred US viewers can explain what he did to earn a knighthood.
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"I'm surprised you haven't had Benny Hill!"
Comedians: always a source of disagreement! This year's GB set has only a couple I can never find funny (including one who isn't even British), but several who purvey(ed) the sort of gentle, inoffensive humour you could not take exception to, nor get very excited about. The same could not be said of Benny Hill, whose sniggering, sexually-repressed humour is now considered to be quite beyond the pale. For US readers the nearest equivalent would be those early Russ Meyer flicks featuring Mr Teas. In both cases neither funny nor titillating but fifty years ago inexplicably popular.
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I thought more about it after I posted and realized - you are right, Michael!
Oh, well....
Randy
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We in the UK have never been very good at commemorating our famous men and women on stamps, although there has been some improvement in the past few years. With the passing of Sir Nicholas Winton at the extraordinary age of 106 I would hope that at some time in the near future he might join Alan Turing, Odette Hallowes and Noor Inayat Khan among the few WW2-related personalities we consider worth remembering in this way. Those of you who don't know the name can find out more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11711344/Sir-Nicholas-Winton-humanitarian-obituary.html
What about those of you in the US or Canada? Are there any 20th century figures you think ought to have appeared by now on your stamps?
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I'm surprised we haven't had Carl Sagan on a stamp yet.
I'm surprised you haven't had Benny Hill!
Chris
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How about W.E.B. Du Bois?
He would have my vote!
Randy
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11:56:15pm
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W.E.B. Du Bois has been on two US stamps.
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04 Jul 2015
01:28:54am
re: Famous Nationals
I just watched the BBC interview of Sir Nicholas Winton this afternoon.
I often become bored to distraction at the repetitive and sometimes mindless commentary by the newsreaders on NBC, CBS, CNN and ABC which leads me to switch to the BBC or AL Jazeeria where there is a much wider variety of world news plus some very interesting in depth interviews or reports.
I am sure that before the weekend is out BBC will rebroadcast the Winton interview, and I would venture to guess not 1one in a hundred US viewers can explain what he did to earn a knighthood.
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"I'm surprised you haven't had Benny Hill!"
Comedians: always a source of disagreement! This year's GB set has only a couple I can never find funny (including one who isn't even British), but several who purvey(ed) the sort of gentle, inoffensive humour you could not take exception to, nor get very excited about. The same could not be said of Benny Hill, whose sniggering, sexually-repressed humour is now considered to be quite beyond the pale. For US readers the nearest equivalent would be those early Russ Meyer flicks featuring Mr Teas. In both cases neither funny nor titillating but fifty years ago inexplicably popular.
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I thought more about it after I posted and realized - you are right, Michael!
Oh, well....
Randy
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