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Monday, December 3, 2007 12:00 AM

Elvis lives! (On Burkina Faso postage stamps)

Mongolia and the X-Men. Chechnya and Groucho Marx. What were these stamp-pandering countries thinking?
Andrew Leonard

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  • Tuesday, December 4, 2007 04:51 PM

    This is nothing new...

    ...it's been going on for at least four and a half decades. Do an Ebay search for "Telstar Stamp" and you'll find impoverished countries like Somalia that put a communications satellite on their postage so they could sell it to technology-worshipping Americans back in 1962.

    Nice to see somebody at the U of M noticed it eventually, though.

    —TimLehnerer Read TimLehnerer's other letters

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