Marilyn Monroe

 
 

Tuvalu Post issued this stamp on 15 October 2007.

 

 

Marilyn Monroe’s origin name is  Norma Jeane Mortenson but baptized and raised as Norma Jeane Baker, was born on June 1, 1926 .  Marilyn Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946.

 

 

St. Vincent & The Grenadines , 1995

Her early film appearances were not success. In 1950, her performance in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve were well received. In  1953, Marilyn Monroe had progressed to leading roles as in Niagara (1953), a melodramatic film noir. 

 

 

75th Birthday Anniversary of Elvis Presley.

The Gambia Post issued this stamp on 15 April 2011

On January 8, 1935 , Elvis Aaron Presley  was born in Tupelo, Mississippi . Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954 when Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, eager to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience, saw in Presley the means to realize his ambition.

Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was one of the originators of rockabilly, an up-tempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues

Barack Obama–Noble Peace Prize 2009

Alfred Nobel was interested in social issues.Perhaps his interest in peace was also due to the use of his inventions in warfare and assassination attempts? He developed a special engagement in the peace movement. An important factor in Nobel’s interest in peace was his acquaintance with Bertha von Suttner.  Peace was the fifth and final prize area that Nobel mentioned in his will.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Barack Obama–44th President of USA

Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital  in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is the first President to have been born in Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas and was of mostly English descent.In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham, and attended Punahou School, a private college preparatory school, from the fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1979.

A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

The stamp issued by Antigua & Barbuda on Jan 20, 2009

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District, which at that time spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park – Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn.