A postage stamp may have played a role in setting the course of....well, yes, history, in a localized sense of nearly universal importance. With the intent of influencing their decision on setting the course, a lobbyist sent one to each of the United States' 90 senators after what was depicted on it fortuitously vented. Can you provide an image of the stamp?

peasypod

I wonder if it's one of these beauties? http://www.iomoon.com/momotombo.html Mar 24 09, 11:56 PM

Verbonica

In 1901 the U.S. senate was set upon picking Nicaragua as the site for a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Then, in May 1902, the Nicaraguan volcano Momotombo erupted. Panama advocates seized the opportunity, warning that a Nicaraguan canal might be destroyed by fire and lava. Nicaragua advocates responded that Panama's earthquakes were just as bad. Then Philippe Bunau-Varilla had a brainstorm; with the assistance of American lobbyist and lawyer William Nelson Cromwell, he mailed every senator a letter to which he affixed a Nicaraguan postage stamp that proudly depicted an exploding volcano. Thus unnerved, the senate eventually voted by 42 to 34 for Panama. http://www.preferredadventures.com/PMA-CanalTransitExtension.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Bunau-Varilla Mar 25 09, 12:08 AM

queproblema

Peasy! So lovely to see you. Close, but it featured a train, not a plane. Mar 25 09, 12:08 AM

queproblema

Oh, yes! That's it, Verbonica--well done. Mar 25 09, 12:10 AM