Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked Paid by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. … To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.

Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end, he says, what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?

Germany absorbed two million refugees from Eastern European Countries and the Russian Federation. The country has small groups of ethnic minorities of Italians, Serbo-Croatians, Greeks, Spanish, and about 98,000 Jews.

Easy money / Rain it down on the wife and the kids / Rain it down on the house where we live / Rain until you got nothing left to give