The United States Postal Service has created individual item numbers for ordering each of the five varieties of the Flag forever stamp issued Jan. 29. The stamp is offered in two different coils of 100 stamps, two different double-sided panes (foldable booklets) of 20 stamps, and one booklet of 10 stamps in a single pane.

The director of The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind was a California native born Feb. 23, 1889. Victor Fleming won an Oscar as best director for Gone With the Wind.

Also this week, readers learned about the new Linn's Stamp News digital edition platform, a Moon global forever stamp was announced, and a Linn's contributor recalled his experience at the first-day ceremony for the latest Lunar New Year stamp.

A forever stamp marking the 200th anniversary of Indiana statehood will be issued June 7 at the state capitol.

On April 29, 1946, Poland issued a 3-zloty+5z Death Spreading Poison Gas over Majdanek Prison Camp semipostal stamp (Scott B45). This stamp remembers the more than 350,000 Jews who were exterminated at this camp during the Holocaust. The macabre and striking design features an allegory of death as a skeleton dressed in a Nazi SS uniform.

American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, which she did in 1923. She was also a playwright, and completed the libretto for an opera.

In her three terms as a U.S. Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan was a member of the House Judiciary Committee and sought to strengthen civil rights protections.

The newest round global forever stamp from the United States Postal Service pictures Earth’s moon. Features of the lunar surface are easily seen in the detailed image created from an existing photograph by Beth Swanson. The stamp and pane selvage were designed by Greg Breeding. William J. Gicker was the USPS art director for this issue.

Col. William Prescott led troops during the 1775 Battle of Bunker's Hill, and was also involved at the 1777 Battle of Saratoga in New York.

The March 18-19 public auction by Dutch Country Auctions of Wilmington, Del., offers United States and worldwide stamps, postal history, first-day covers, collections, accumulations, large lots, and more. The auction opens with U.S. covers, including Naval and ship covers, air covers, postal cards, and accumulations.

United States Postal Service representatives mentioned last August that a new 5¢ Grapes stamp would be issued in 2016. However, it wasn’t until Feb. 18 that the issue date was revealed: Feb. 19. No first-day ceremony is planned. Kansas City, Mo., is designated as the official city of issue.

If you are a frequent visitor to Linn’s website Linns.com, you might have noticed improvements in early February. We’ve given the website an updated, user-friendly look to make content more accessible to you, our readers. We start out with a fresh, modern color scheme with a pleasing-to-the-eyes font, or typeface, for the text and headlines.

Four New Zealand stamps picturing glowworms glow in the dark. The stamps are being issued March 2. New Zealand Post said, “The stamps have been printed using glow-in-the-dark technology to replicate the effect of glowworms in the wild — simply expose them to sunlight and then step into a dark space to see the stamps light up.”

Match and medicine revenue stamps (known formally as private die proprietary stamps) remain one of the most active segments of the U.S. stamp market. The Revenue Act of 1862 was enacted to help pay for the cost of fighting the Civil War. It levied taxes on the sale of matches, patent medicines, perfumes, playing cards, and other items.

Waterville, Maine, bookseller Robert Sezak auctioned his pane of the upright $2 Jenny Invert stamp through James D. Julia Auctioneers. A high bid of $50,000 won the lot.

The United Kingdom's Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, is the third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Prince Andrew was born Feb. 19, 1960, and has been depicted on many stamps from the British Commonwealth.

“Six degrees of separation” is the notion that everything is only a few short steps away from everything else. This term’s widespread use in contemporary culture might be a side effect of worldwide email and social media, fueling the feeling that even in our vast and populous world, connecting with others is easier every day. The same kind of connectedness is often noteworthy in stamp subjects or themes, each one connecting to another and yet another as time goes by.

When you use Google, Bing or other search engines to look up information about stamps, you often get information not related to postage stamps as well. One way to avoid these extraneous results is to use sites that are limited to stamps.

Admission to the March 29 Sarah Vaughan forever stamp first-day ceremony in Newark, N.J., requires a ticket. Tickets can be reserved in person or by phone.

A label affixed to the postcard shown nearby reads “Remember S-D Day December 1.” Nothing on the card indicates what S-D Day is. It was sent from Melbourne, Fla., to Owega, N.Y., franked with a 2¢ Jefferson stamp. It is postmarked Nov. 15, 1955.