100 Days of COVID-19, Day 24

My Art in the Time of a Pandemic

Creating a postcard a day from postage stamps I've been collecting since childhood.

Gold leaf postcard with 1964 Olympic stamps
by Suzanne Coley, 4/23/2020

Today's stamps: 1964 Tokyo Olympic games printed in Poland. The stamps show the victories won by the Polish team. The Polish team won 7 gold medals that summer.

On my postcard are stamps of the following athletes:
1. Waldemar Baszanowski - Weightlifting
2. Egon Franke - Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
3. Women's 4x100 meters relay (Teresa Cieply, Irina Kirszenstein, Halina Gorecka, Ewa Klobukowska)

This year's Olympic Games in Tokyo have been postponed until 2021 due to the new coronavirus pandemic. The Games have been cancelled only three other times in the history of the modern Olympics Games. Those cancellations were due to war.

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*Coronavirus Disease 2019:
Update in Maryland- 4/23/2020

15,737 confirmed cases

748 deaths

Update in New York State - 4/23/2020

263,460 confirmed cases

20,973 deaths, including 16,388 in NYC

Total in United States: 867,459 confirmed cases, 49,804 deaths
Total Worldwide: 2,704,676 confirmed cases, 190,549 deaths

* All numbers are taken from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

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