January 18, 2025
Tag: The Fischer Quints
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The Fischer Quintuplets
By Dorothy Stabler
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The Fischer Quintuplets were born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on September 14, 1963. They were the first quintuplets to survived after the birth in 1934 of the Dionne quintuplets of Ontario, Canada. At the time of their birth, the statistical odds of giving birth to quints was estimated to be one in 54 million. There…
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An international treaty signed at Bern, Switzerland, in 1874 was the culmination of decades of work done by postal authorities in nearly two dozen countries. To greater appreciate the Treaty of Bern, the postcard collector needs to draw from personal experience. If you have examined an early foreign postcard you have likely found some with […]