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DECEMBER 2001 £2.75 Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) Main Photograph: A rare photograph taken from a balloon, of the Poldhu Hotel and one tower, Spring 1903. Photos reproduced courtesy of Marconi’s Atlantic Leap. Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. 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