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Thanks to late night TV and the added bonus of cable channels that run older shows; most American’s have seen or at least know about the television shows that are represented in the Early TV Memories postage stamps. Issued this month by the United States Postal Service, they are already providing to be a hit among collectors and fans alike. The stamps depict different popular classic television shows from the 1950’s and 1960’s. The Twilight Zone is one of the stamps that are featur …

Traveling through space has been a fascination for not only astronauts and cosmonauts, but regular folks around the world as well. Those of us not lucky enough to have the experience of space travel have often watched in eager anticipation as the various space crafts have lifted off to reach destinations that we can only dream about. There have been many successful missions and sadly some tragic endings to these amazing adventures. Back the 1960’s there was a race between t …

Dr. Jonas Salk was born in New York to Russian immigrant parents. He was encouraged to study hard and eventually attended medical school at New York University. He initially had a particular interest in the study of influenza. Dr. Salk’s first major accomplishment came in the development of a vaccine that controlled the spread of the flu. The original vaccine that Salk created is the basis for the flu vaccine that is still used today.Dr. Salk’s second great accomplishment came w …

The United States Postal Service honored musical great, Henry Mancini with a 37 cent commemorative postage stamp on April 13, 2004. The stamp was originally unveiled months before at the 2003 Mancini Musicale at UCLA before a very large crowd. The postage stamp features Mancini directing with many of his famous works from film and television displayed in the background. The stamp even features a picture of the Pink Panther character, which Mancini composed the music score for. In …

Wilma Rudolph was an amazing American athlete; not only for the medals that she won for the United States, but also for the obstacles she had to overcome in her lifetime. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children in her large family. Her mother was a maid and her father was a railroad porter. At the age of four, she contracted polio and became crippled. Doctors told her mother repeatedly that Wilma would never be able to walk again. She was not able to receive good medic …