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Stamps featuring General Douglas MacArthur

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Date of Issue: January 26, 1980
#940: 30s --- 500,000 - 105.00 - 55.00
#941: 75s --- 500,000 - 105.00 - 55.00
#942: 2.30p --- 500,000 - 105.00 - 55.00
#943: 5.00p sou.sheet --- 26,600 - 105.00 - 55.00

Stamps featuring the San Miguel Brewery

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Date of Issue: April 16, 1990
Denomination & Quantity ( #1574):

5.50p --- 1,000,000 - 59.00 - 29.00

Trivias about Aviation

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At about 10:35 in the morning of 17th December, 1903 Orville Wright made the first powered flight in a fully controllable aircraft, which the Wright brothers designed and developed. The flight lasted just 12 seconds and stretched only 120 feet. In the next few hours however, Wilbur and Orville made four flights, the longest was 852 feet. After the fourth flight, a gust of wind rolled the aircraft over and smashed it.

 

Trivias about Apolinario Mabini

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On May 13, 2003, the nation remembers one of its greatest heroes, Apolinario Mabini y Maranan. Known as the "Sublime Paralytic," Mabini was the intellectual soul of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine Republic. He was born on July 23, 1864 in barrio Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas, the second of the eight sons of Inocencio Mabini and Dionisia Maranan. His family's poverty did not prevent him from seeking an education. He supported himself serving as a teacher of Latin in the school of Melchor Virrey in Manila and in the school of Sebastian Virrey in Lipa.