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US to honour Mother Teresa with stamp Washington: India’s Nobel Peace prize winner Mother Teresa will be honoured on a US postage stamp on her birth centenary, the US Postal Service said. The postage stamp honouring Mother Teresa is scheduled to go on sale on August 26, 2010 on the occasion of her 100th birthday. "Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who devoted her life to the sick and poor of India, was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. A stamp in her honour will go on sale on her birthday Aug 26," the postal service said in a statement. Every year, the US Postal Service releases a series of commemorative stamps, honoring people, places and institutions. These stamps remain on sale for a limited period and are widely collected, it said. The Albanian catholic nun, who devoted her life to the downtrodden, was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Other personalities to be honoured on US postage stamps in 2010 include Katharine Hepburn, winner of four Oscars, singing Cowboy and later baseball executive Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and the Year of the Tiger, which will be released on January 14. Back |
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