Moose, Canada

Well, my last card for today is one of those lovely "Did you know cards" that I received back in 2009...but Ive realized Im not the only one who has cards left pending from years ago, so I dont feel THAT bad about it :)

So here what the card has to say, in order to spare you zooming and staring your eyes out while looking at the screen.

The moose (so named in North America) is the largest member of the deer family Cervidae, distinguished from the others by the palmate antlers of its males. The great length of the legs gives a decidedly lanky appearance to the moose. The muzzle is long and fleshy with only a very small triangular patch below the nostrils; and the males have a peculiar sac, known as the bell, hanging from the neck. The typical moose stands about 1.9 metres at the shoulder, only the males have antlers. Moose are found in Canadian forests from the Alaska boundary to the eastern tip of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is estimated that there is between 500 000 and 1 million moose in Canada. In Canadian provinces, collisions with moose are frequent enough that all new highways have fences to prevent moose from accessing the road. A moose's body structure, with a large heavy body suspended on long spindly legs, makes these animals particularly dangerous when hit by motor vehicles. Such collisions are often fatal for both the moose and the motorist.

and down to the stamps....there are three samples of the Captain Robert A. Bartlett stamp, issued in 2009, while the other one is from a set of five Beneficial Insects stamps, issued in 2007 and this one here shows us a Golden-eyed Lacewing.

Thank you for following and have a great weekend everyone!  

Ruby Hurley, USA

A bit of education.....

Ruby Hurley (1909-1980) earned recognition with her successful national efforts in organizing and directing youth councils and college chapters for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). In the early 1950's she became the organisation's first  Southeast Regional Director and opened NAACP's first full-time office in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. She worked courageously investigating racial crimes such as the murders of George Lee and Lamar Smith, voter registration workers in Mississippi, and Emmett Till, a Chicago youth murdered in Mississippi while visiting an uncle. Hurley travelled throughout the dangerous environment of the South opening NAACP offices and in 1965 when Alabama outlawed the organization, she fled to Atlanta and opened another office. She worked throughout the 1960's in the Civil Rights Movements and died just two years after her retirement from NAACP at the age of 70.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here is a card that a really really love! I love educational and 'did you know' cards, and this is my first 'did you know' card and its a great great great one! I know you have all at least heard about Martin Luther King....but here you can learn a bit more about him.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin acted as co-pastor. Attending segregated public schools in Georgia, he was graduated from high-school at the age of 15 and received a B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished institution in Atlanta.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963, and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. One the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

As for the stamps, i think you are all more than familiar with the 94c. one :). I think that Kelly used another 4c one due to the postage rise in the US...im not sure how much have the prices gone up though, but until now, all the cards i had received had a 94c. stamp...so this is my guess why there is an additional stamp of 4c. on this card.