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Postage Stamp commemorating the transcontinental Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1803-1806.

#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Feb 7, 2009 [SPOILER]

Here is the picture of the postage stamp. I had to really fiddle around with it to make it solvable.

http://www.usps.com/communications/news/images/04stamps/04_louisandclark37_d.jpg

Meriwether: "Oh look, I can see the ocean!"

William: "That's not the ocean, Dimwit, you've water in your spyglass."

Meriwether: "Let's see, if up is North, then left must be West. Oh look, a monkey tail!"

William: "That's not a monkey tail, that just some fancy scroll work on this postage stamp we are stuck on."

Nice, and fun to solve. It kept looking like a big fancy armchair, until I started doing the people (which were last).

Thanks, Adam.

Thanks, Teresa, for another fantastic puzzle! At first I thought it was actors on stage in an ornate Victorian-era theater. Lewis & Clark had a much more vast and grand stage, don't you think? Great job, as usual!!!

Thank you, Tonia. They had plenty of drama along the way, according to their journal. Did you know that President Jefferson agreed to have the government pay for anything they might want or need along the way? A road trip with an open line of credit. Wow.

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Oh my gosh - whatever are Thunderclap Pills? And why would they need so many?

I know what "pills" are needed to treat "the clap," having to prescribe them routinely, but I, too, don't know what "Thunderclapper pills" are. LOL!

I believe that they were used for almost any ailment as many were back then. It had quite a bit of mercury in it so I would imagine that it harmed more than it helped. Since mercury doesn't degrade, they ( ?? ) were able to pinpoint at least one of L & C camps by buried burnt embers and mercury in the ground. One for giong in and the other ...

No wonder I didn't recognize the picture :) Great job, Teresa.

Thanks, Mary.

It kept looking like the front of a car with headlights and stuff, until I got the people. Nice puzzle.

Thanks, Diana.

fun to solve!

Sadly, the link is broken. This one works, for the moment: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/native-history-jefferson-asks-congress-to-fund-lewis-and-clark-expedition-kKp2d6MexEe50dA06aTSLw/

It's a lovely stamp!

Thank you, Kristen. (✬‿✬)

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