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7. The FAMOUS and INFAMOUS - The Meter Stamp Society

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<strong>7.</strong>4 NEW ARRWALS<br />

Tennis star Arthur Ashe acquired his HW from infected blood during a transfusion.<br />

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AKTiIURASt1/MIII.ONA<br />

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ARTHUR ASHE<br />

U.S.P.S. MI’&D.C.<br />

Feb.!6,I993 SA 19<br />

Marina Del Rey CA 90311<br />

b<br />

Rudolf Nureyev died of AIDS at age 54 in 1993.<br />

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SAi" MARINO 1500 A1N MAItIINO 1200<br />

Glauber Rocha<br />

film director<br />

<strong>and</strong> an early<br />

AIDS victim.<br />

Thous<strong>and</strong>s<br />

of Brasilians<br />

would follow.<br />

<strong>The</strong> world of figure<br />

skating lost both<br />

John Curry <strong>and</strong><br />

Ondrej Nepela<br />

to AIDS.<br />

<strong>and</strong> among the living, both<br />

Magic Johnson <strong>and</strong> Greg Louganis are HW+<br />

SLOVESK 5<br />

ONDRIJNJPELA<br />

Last exhibited in<br />

its entirety in<br />

October 1996 in<br />

Washington DC.<br />

Over 35 countries<br />

have an AIDS<br />

memorial quilt.<br />

Thous<strong>and</strong>s of other AIDS deaths will never be commemorated<br />

on a postage stamp but are memorialized on the AIDS quilt.<br />

<strong>The</strong>Naw<br />

!RII<br />

QUILT Octobey1M%<br />

Old Giory<br />

USA I<br />

For United States addresses only<br />

45000+ panels<br />

comprised the<br />

U.S. quilt <strong>and</strong><br />

well over 85000<br />

worldwide.

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