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Stamp collecting, in my opinion, is one of the greatest hobbies. One never knows when studying one's stamps where that pursuit might lead you as happened in this case with a plant that I have used for many years but never thought twice about how it prevents fungal disease from attacking my seedlings. But now I have a better understanding on why I use it in growing my vegetable plants and a why it has been used in medicine.
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Agreed, AgathaWatson! Not a day goes by that my covers, stamps, postcards, and collateral collectibles don't teach me something interesting. Just yesterday, I learned something interesting about this stamp, or I should say about the aircraft shown on the stamp, a Beechcraft T-34 Mentor.
I learned that T-34A (used by the U.S. Air Force) and the T-34B (used by the U.S. Navy) were quite different aircraft. The T-34B is heavier, stronger, and easier to maneuver on the ground. That's because the Air Force teaches pilots to land their aircraft softly, gently as a feather, to avoid damage and injury to pilot-instructors, and that the Navy teaches pilots to land like they mean it, on the spot, firmly, without hesititiion, so their tail hooks can engage arresting cables on aircraft carriers.
Sidebar (a bit gruesome): When I was training as a Navy hospital corpsman at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, one of the patients and good reason to be in a wheelchair. He had no legs. Period. His body stopped at his hips. He had been a deck crewman on an aircraft carrier. An arresting cable broke when a plane grabbed it, went whipping across the flight deck, and amputated the guy's legs and probably some important parts of his lower abdomen. I can't imagine how he survived that trauma.
In ways, experiences like that helped to form my interested in collecting stamps and covers related to military medicine.
Bob
The T-34 is not an especially well-known aircraft. My Dominican Republic stamp is the only one I've found that pictures it.
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For the last two weeks here in Florida (Sebring), the navy has been training pilots using the T-34's replacement the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II. They are flying from dawn to late afternoon, depending on the weather, using two local airports and the facilities at the AP bombing range. The paper says that they will be here until the beginning of March. They are fun to watch!
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By coincidence the BBC had an article 3 days ago regarding the reintroduction of sphagnum moss to parts of the UK.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lx3e ...
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Hi folks,
I really appreciate the feedback. It really makes Stamporama such a great place to be. And Vic, I did go to that link and read what about the reintroduction of the moss. A great project.
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Sphagnum works as a compress on wounds. On the other hand it can carry a fungal disease that affects humans: sporotrichosis.
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One of my topical collections is plants on stamps and in 1981 Liechtenstein issued a set of 4 stamps showing mosses and lichens. One of the stamps, and the only one that I am aware, shows sphagnum moss which I have used for many years in preventing damping off (a fungal disease) on my vegetable seedlings. In doing some research on this set of stamps, I came across some fascinating information on sphagnum moss and its role in human medicine over the centuries. I uploaded to the article section under the Stamporama research category a short story about that role.
Stamp collecting, in my opinion, is one of the greatest hobbies. One never knows when studying one's stamps where that pursuit might lead you as happened in this case with a plant that I have used for many years but never thought twice about how it prevents fungal disease from attacking my seedlings. But now I have a better understanding on why I use it in growing my vegetable plants and a why it has been used in medicine.
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re: Sphagnum Moss Saved Lives
Agreed, AgathaWatson! Not a day goes by that my covers, stamps, postcards, and collateral collectibles don't teach me something interesting. Just yesterday, I learned something interesting about this stamp, or I should say about the aircraft shown on the stamp, a Beechcraft T-34 Mentor.
I learned that T-34A (used by the U.S. Air Force) and the T-34B (used by the U.S. Navy) were quite different aircraft. The T-34B is heavier, stronger, and easier to maneuver on the ground. That's because the Air Force teaches pilots to land their aircraft softly, gently as a feather, to avoid damage and injury to pilot-instructors, and that the Navy teaches pilots to land like they mean it, on the spot, firmly, without hesititiion, so their tail hooks can engage arresting cables on aircraft carriers.
Sidebar (a bit gruesome): When I was training as a Navy hospital corpsman at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, one of the patients and good reason to be in a wheelchair. He had no legs. Period. His body stopped at his hips. He had been a deck crewman on an aircraft carrier. An arresting cable broke when a plane grabbed it, went whipping across the flight deck, and amputated the guy's legs and probably some important parts of his lower abdomen. I can't imagine how he survived that trauma.
In ways, experiences like that helped to form my interested in collecting stamps and covers related to military medicine.
Bob
The T-34 is not an especially well-known aircraft. My Dominican Republic stamp is the only one I've found that pictures it.
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re: Sphagnum Moss Saved Lives
For the last two weeks here in Florida (Sebring), the navy has been training pilots using the T-34's replacement the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II. They are flying from dawn to late afternoon, depending on the weather, using two local airports and the facilities at the AP bombing range. The paper says that they will be here until the beginning of March. They are fun to watch!
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re: Sphagnum Moss Saved Lives
By coincidence the BBC had an article 3 days ago regarding the reintroduction of sphagnum moss to parts of the UK.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lx3e ...
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re: Sphagnum Moss Saved Lives
Hi folks,
I really appreciate the feedback. It really makes Stamporama such a great place to be. And Vic, I did go to that link and read what about the reintroduction of the moss. A great project.
Fred
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re: Sphagnum Moss Saved Lives
Sphagnum works as a compress on wounds. On the other hand it can carry a fungal disease that affects humans: sporotrichosis.
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