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Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888 – 1989), aviation pioneer and business executive. He learned to fly before World War 1, formed a flying school, then an manufacturing firm which became famous for supplying more than 18,000 aircraft for the allied forces during the war, including 5747 of the Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter. Sopwith was awarded the CBE in 1918. His own firm went under after the war but he later became chairman of Hawker. He also turned his hand toward yachting where he was fairly successful. Micronesia, 1993, depicts Sopwith himself. The Sopwith Camel can be found on a few other stamps.  |
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He passed away yesterday, Kirk Douglas at 103. What I particularly liked about this actor was that he always seemed to put all his talents into his roles, no matter what character he played. There are surely many more stamps picturing him in various roles.  |
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Deng Xiao Ping (1904-1997) (top center)  (Chinese Leaders, Guinea-Bissau, 2012) |
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In 2016 Barbados started a series to celebrate residents over 100 years old by putting them on stamps. Here is Scott 1293, a sheetlet of seven stamps. Barbados apparently has one of the very highest percentages of centenarians relative to national population.  |
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The great Mexican photographer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002). He worked with a veritable who's who of 20th century artists, had over 150 individual exhibitions, and is represented in leading collections around the world. Mexico 2002 Scott 2251. The stamp was issued February 3, the day before Bravo turned 100, so he would've heard about and seen it. He died in October of that year.  |
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Qian Xuesen (1911-2009)  Quote:
Sent to Germany to interrogate Nazi scientists, Qian interviewed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. As the trade magazine Aviation Week put it in 2007, upon naming Qian its person of the year, "No one then knew that the father of the future U.S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program." https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-m...1-story.html |
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Scenery postmark of Kozoji Takamoridai, Aichi County. Japan  When researching this postmark, happen to find a 90-year old Japanese architect, Tsubata Shuichi, and his wife, Hideko, 88. Their stories are made into a documentary film - Life is fruity, which becomes very popular topic in Japan as well as in China as far as I know.  Quote:
90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata (former Professor of Hiroshima University, former Japan Housing Corporation)
Her 87-year-old wife, Hideko, lives in Kozoji New Town in Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture.
Mr. Tsubata is a person who designed the basic design of "Kozoji New Town" which was said to be the largest city plan after the war,
After studying under architects Kenzo Tange and Antonin Raymond,
As a central member of the founding of the Japan Housing Corporation,
After the turbulent war, japan has been building "housing", "housing complex" and "new town".
About 50 years have passed since the Tsubata couple had been living in Kozoji Temple, where they designed it themselves, when they were completed.
At home, a small sapling planted 50 years ago has now grown into a dense wooded forest.
About 100 kinds of vegetables and fruits grow throughout the year in the fields where the dead leaves are planted and the soil continues to grow.
His wife, Hideko, doesn't eat out and doesn't shop at convenience stores.
Using the crops harvested in the field, he spends his days carefully making his husband's proud homemade dishes.
Hideko says, "Food is life."
The house they live in mimics the residence of the respected Antonin Raymond.
A single 30-mat, single-story cedar log hut.
Meals, work and sleep are functional and comfortable lives in a room.
Their lives are like modern Momogen-go.
The motto of the 90-year-old and 87-year-old son of The Tsubata and his wife is "a life that becomes beautiful as they get older."
http://life-is-fruity.com/Review: 'Life is Fruity'- Relaxed garden doc invites contemplationhttp://povmagazine.com/articles/vie...fe-is-fruity |
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Here is another aviation pioneer who defied the odds and lived to 101. Henri Fabre (1882-1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, which he flew in 1910. His developments were then carried on by Glenn Curtiss and others. His Hydravion is in the Musée de l'air et de l'espace outside Paris. First here is Sc. #B577 from his native France, 1986  There are quite a few stamps commemorating his 1910 flights, for instance this 1973 one from Gabon which must exaggerate the angle of climb.  A similar from Gibraltar, and finally one from France. Seems to have kept his mustache from 1910 to ca 1984.   |
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Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (1909 - 2012) was an Australian philanthropist and matriarch of the Murdoch family. She is honored with a stamp in the Australian Legends of Philanthropy series issued in 2008.  |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 – 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. A member of the Académie française, he has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology" Belgium honored him with a stamp in 2001.  |
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Irene Sendler (1910-2008) would have been 110 years old today. Under the worst of conditions she rescued approximately 2500 children from the Ghetto of Warsaw by smuggling them out and providing them with fake identities. She was captured by the Gestapo and condemned to death but was rescued and changed her own identity. At Yad Vashem she is one of the Righteous Among the Nations.   |
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Melchora Aquino (1812-1919)  Quote:
Melchora Aquino was known for her heroic contributions in the history of the Philippines revolution. The revolution broke out in 1896. She was 84 years at that time. Most of the wounded and sick Filipino revolutionaries sought refuge in her store. She not only gave them medical attention, but also encouraged the revolutionaries with prayers and motherly advice. Many revolutionaries also held secret meetings at her home. She earned the name "Mother of Katipunan (revolution)" and was also known as "Tandang Sora", where "Tandang" meant old. Biography Melchora Aquinohttp://www.historyrocket.com/Biogra...-Aquino.html10 Interesting Information About Melchora Aquinohttps://ourhappyschool.com/philippi...chora-aquino |
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