[Nfbmo] Fw: [nfbmi-talk] An item of interest regarding Louis Braille

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From: "Mary Ann Rojek" <brightsmile1953 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:02 PM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] An item of interest regarding Louis Braille


Vatican issues first Braille stamp in honor of bicentenary of Louis Braille
Vatican City, November 5 (
CNA
) .- The Vatican post office has issued it's first ever Braille stamp to 
celebrate
the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, who created the 
universal reading
and writing system for the blind.
The stamps feature a portrait of Louis Braille, the inventor's name, the 
Vatican
City State and the price written in the raised dots of the Braille system. 
Valued
at $0.96 each, 300,000 stamps have been issued and will go on sale at the 
Vatican's
post offices near St. Peter's Basilica, according to the Canadian Press.
Born in France in 1809, Louis Braille was blinded in an accident at the age 
of four.
Despite this challenge, he insisted on attending school at the age of ten 
and was
accepted to the Institute of the Blind in Paris. He was instructed in the 
Huay method
for teaching the blind, which did not allow for any writing.
Braille became an instructor at the school at the young age of 18 and within 
two
years had developed a simpler and more intuitive learning method. He 
eventually expanded
his method to include musical notation.
Shortly after his death at the age of 43, France adopted his system and at 
the World
Congress of Education for the Blind in 1878, the Braille method was declared 
universal.



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