The Statue of Liberty | blog

Seven score and four years ago, as Lincoln lay dying in a boarding house across the street from Ford’s Theater, his myth was already being born. A good part of that myth is owed to Lincoln’s appearance on postage stamps. The first one, a black 15-cent stamp, was issued in 1866, a year after his death.

In their exquisite, miniature engravings, these early stamps began the reincarnation of Lincoln: the little images of his almost saintly visage, gazing serenely past the viewer in three-quarter profile, became part of our public consciousness. Borne on letters overseas, stamps also carried the consciousness of Lincoln around the world.

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The Dalai Lama’s nephew walked into Manhattan on Saturday, ending a 900-mile trek that began in Indiana to support Tibetan independence.

“I lost a lot of my toenails, I lost feeling in one of my toes, and I have a lot of blisters – blisters upon blisters,” Jigme Norbu said as he arrived at the Chinese Consulate on W. 42nd St.

“It’s all mental, though. It’s not physical,” Norbu said. “If you have the determination to fight for your country’s independence it helps you accomplish the goal.”

Norbu began his walk 40 days ago, on March 10, in Indianapolis and it took him through Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Washington, Pennsylvania and finally New York.

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