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The stamp was first issued on October 15 in New York. [7] The initial version of the stamp has been reissued; in 2006 it was 39 cents, in 2007, it was 41 cents stamp, and in 2008 it was a 42 cent stamp. In 2013 United States Postal Service issued a new version of Hanukkah stamp which depicted menorah again.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born on 24 June 1962 in Mexico City, within a Mexican Jewish family. [11][12] She is the second child of chemist Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz and biologist Annie Pardo Cemo. [13][14] Carlos Sheinbaum was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His father, Chone Juan Sheinbaum Abramovitz, [15] had emigrated from Lithuania in 1928, becoming a jewelry merchant and a member of the ...
Nature of America is a series of twelve self-adhesive stamp sheets that the United States Postal Service released annually between 1999 and 2010 starting with the Sonoran Desert sheet [3][5] and ending with the Hawaiian Rain Forest Sheet. [6][7] Like the Celebrate the Century stamp series, these were printed on large sheets 9"x8¾" (233mm x 171mm), [5] but differed from the former in that they ...
The Mexican drug war is an ongoing asymmetric [40][41] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence. [42] The Mexican government has asserted that its primary focus is dismantling the cartels and preventing drug trafficking. The conflict ...
The first United States non-denominated postage stamp, issued in 1975, was valued at 10 cents. Non-denominated postage is a postage stamp intended to meet a certain postage rate, but printed without the denomination, the price for that rate. They may retain full validity for the intended rate, regardless of later rate changes, or they may retain validity only for the original purchase price ...
The stamp, printed on Giori press in plates of 200, was designed by Herbert Sanborn and engraved by C. A. Brooks. 121,440,000 normal stamps were printed and 40,270,000 of the inverted reprint were produced.
Rolls of newsprint Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material. Invented in 1844 by Charles Fenerty of Nova Scotia, Canada, it usually has an off white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use in printing presses that employ a long web of paper (web offset ...
The first postage stamp was issued in Great Britain in 1840, and by the early 1860s the first postage stamp forgery [3] —in the sense of a stamp created to fool philatelists into thinking that it is a genuine one—appeared on the market. By 1863 forgeries were so common that the book Forged Stamps: How to Detect Them was published [4] and by 1864, forgeries were being produced of both ...