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Bedrock Of The Community
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Netherlands Labour Bureau for the Disabled September 6, 1977 The design depicts landscape inaccessible to disabled people.  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Japan First National Sports Games for the Disabled October 26, 2001 The se-tenant pair depicts Flying Disc and Wheelchair Race.  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Germany Sports Aid February 5, 2004 Set of five, one stamp depicts Wheelchair Tennis.  |
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I collected this for the camera, but here is a 1981 issue from Nigeria (Scott #400). I wonder how many countries issued stamps to publicize the International Year for Disabled Persons; there are quite a few shown in this thread.  |
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About 100 different issuing bodies/countries, according to a catalogue not to be mentioned here. |
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While making dinner I was listening to a little Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) and suddenly thought a) there must be a stamp, and b) he might be added to this thread. He's shown on this French stamp of 1993. Reinhardt was born in Belgium to a Romani family, but made his career in France. When he was 18, he was already a good guitar player, but he was horribly burned over half his body in a nighttime fire in his caravan. After a long recovery, the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were left twisted and useless. He relearned his chord work and went on to become one of the most influential and fast jazz guitarists ever using just two fingers on the frets. You can see on the stamp his hand is not positioned as one might expect. A photograph of him is below which shows things more clearly. Also shows his ever-present cigarette which is omitted from the stamp.   |
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Bedrock Of The Community
United States
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Costa Rica International Year for Sports and Physical Education December 6, 2005 The stamp depicts an athlete in racing wheelchair.  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Ghana International Year of the Disabled Persons February 8, 1982 The stamp set depicts a blind man with his walking cane, a woman with her crutches, a girl reading Braille, and two disabled people helping one another.  |
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In 2013 the USPS issued this Forever stamp to honor legendary entertainer Ray Charles, 1930-2004. He was blinded by glaucoma early in his childhood, but even so, he studied music from a very early age, using braille sheet music to learn the fingering on a piano keyboard, and early on learned the piano music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. By his late teens he was already recording and playing professionally  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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United Arab Emirates People of Determination February 20, 2020 The new emblem portrays a positive image of the disabled as active and productive members in the community.  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Oman International White Cane Day October 15, 2004 This large stamp shows light over embossed Braille text, with the emblem of the Association for the Blind Sultanate of Oman.  |
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Tunisia National Day of the Disabled May 29, 2008 The stamp depicts Information and Communication Technology serving the disabled.  |
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This May 31, 1999, 2 bolivianos stamp (Sc #1057) of Bolivia commemorates the country's first National Special Olympics.  |
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On January 5, 2012 the United Kingdom issued these two stamps (SG #3250, SG3252) to publicize the London 2012 Paralympic Games. From wikipedia, "The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 14th Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that took place in London, U.K. from 29 August to 9 September, 2012."  |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Transkei (South Africa) Care for Cripples November 30, 1978 The stamp set depicts boy with a leg brace, man in wheelchair, nurse examining a child.  |
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