Katharine Hepburn, Mother Teresa top list of new 2010 stamps

Screen legend Katharine Hepburn and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa are being commemorated by the United States Postal Service in 2010. Katharine Hepburn's stamp is part of the "Legends of Hollywood" series. This four-time Best Actress Oscar winner's stamp will go on sale May 12, 2010.

The Mother Teresa stamp is being held back until Aug. 26, 2010, when it will be released on Mother Teresa's birthday. This remarkable woman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in India.

Other stamps include:

• A Sunday Funnies series that features Archie, Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Dennis the Menace and Garfield, available in July.
  
  
• Ten more "Flags of Our Nation" stamps will be released in April. This set covers the states of Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and North Carolina.
  
  
• A series of two stamps honoring the Negro Leagues Baseball will be available in June.
  
  
• The new "Love" stamp this year goes on sale in the spring and is called "Pansies in a Basket."
  
  
• A block of four stamps commenorating "Cowboys of the SIlver Screen." These stamps include Gene Autry, William S. Hart, Tom Mix and Roy Rogers. This series goes on sale April 17. Yippee kay-yay.
  
  

Check out all the 2010 stamps in our photo gallery.

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