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Muscle Car TV visits the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum

Spoiler — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:39:42 GMT

My friends over on Muscle Car TV tell me they just completed filming a great feature on the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum. It is scheduled to air on Spike TV May 22 and 23, 2010. This should be a great show you will not want to miss. You can see more on this museum by visiting our Museum Tour page.

Although Tim Wellborn has a special passion for MOPARs he and wife Pam have a beautiful collection of muscle cars from all manufacturers.

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Local Government Law Enforcement

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:27:03 GMT

Japan Post Service Co. will issue a set of stamps "Local Government Law Enforcement Series 60 Anniversary of Nara Prefecture".

(1) Tadashi capital and cherry and Kemari Heij
Chinami year 1300, remains a symbol of the prosperity Heijo historic Nara Period (Youkyuuseki soldier) in Nara Prefecture and Nara prefectural flower Tadashi???the primary center of the building double cherry (and the cherry tree bearing was), and are designed and configured with a ball Kemari tradition dating from the Nara period.

* Has been designated as special national historic ruins Heijo. Also, being a UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara" one of.
* Tadashi???First Emperor's reign, the central building of the Emperor??Heijo to the nation during the ceremony and New Year's. Restoration is currently under construction, 2010 to be completed.

(2) Moran and Hasedera
686 years for Tenmu beginning and that is enshrined in Oka, west of the copper phase diagram of the Tao Hokke Buddhist theory.
Two lanterns are hung on both sides of the aisle that every registration between approximately 7000 and the spring can be seen in the shares of the peony flower.

(3) Hall
light party hall and main hall of the hexagon is floating in a pond heron???of Nara Park, is illuminated at night. (lit up the hall, the year round, sunset to 22 pm)
Light party is a fantastic showcase event of the night lights of Nara.
Nara Park one area spread to seven of bloom lighting 20,000 candles more than beautiful.

(4) Japan's smallest outdoor pagoda pagoda standing Muro (National Treasure) (height 16m) is.
The 1998 Pacific typhoon season has been significantly damaged and is currently being repaired.

(5) Yoshino cherry
From early September through mid-April the cherry blossoms are said to be Kimasu 3 million.
Yoshino cherry is closely tied to religion and mountains, has been protected as a cherry faith.

Title: Local Government Law Enforcement
Date of Issue: 8 February 2010
Country: Japan
Denominations: 80 Yen x 5

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Rose

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:26:24 GMT

Thai post will issue a postage stamp depicting rose.

A rose is a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colours. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Most are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance.

The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with sharply toothed oval-shaped leaflets. The plant's fleshy edible fruit, which ripens in the late summer through autumn, is called a rose hip. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 7 meters in height. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, which has given rise to the many types of garden roses.

Title: Rose
Date of Issue: 5 February 2010
Country: Thailand
Denominations: 5 Bhat

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The Right Honourable Roméo LeBlanc

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:25:36 GMT

Canada Post will pay tribute to a former Governor General whose lifelong pride in his country and steadfast belief in the potential of Canadians inspired a long and distinguished career in public service.

The late Right Honourable Roméo LeBlanc was born in 1927, in Memramcook, New Brunswick. He began his career as a teacher before turning to journalism, working as a foreign correspondent for Radio-Canada. In 1965, LeBlanc became founding president of the CBC Radio-Canada Foreign Correspondents Association. He went on to serve as Press Secretary for Prime Ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.

“If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.”

In 1972, LeBlanc took his first step into the political arena when he was elected to the House of Commons, representing New Brunswick’s Westmorland-Kent riding. He served as Minister of Fisheries in three of Prime Minister Trudeau’s cabinets, becoming Canada’s longest serving minister in this position. During his tenure, LeBlanc oversaw the expansion of Canada’s coastal fishing zone from a 12-mile limit to its current 200-mile limit and helped shape the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. He was appointed to the Senate in 1984 and Speaker of the Senate in 1993.

Title: The Right Honourable Roméo LeBlanc
Date of Issue: 8 February 2010
Country: Canada
Denominations: 57c

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Europa 2010 Children’s Books

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:25:05 GMT

Jersey Post will issue its Europa 2010 stamp issue – Children’s Books – and will interpret PostEurop’s theme by featuring a set of stamps depicting characters from some well-known children’s books and tales written by Hugh Lofting, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

The Europa logo will appear on two stamps only. During the printing process, special luminous ink was applied to the 80p value stamp to enhance the end of the Dong’s strap-on nose and really bring to life the tale portrayed on the stamp – the nose ‘glows in the dark’. ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ by Edward Lear appears on the First Day Cover envelope and the Presentation Pack shows an open book with many well known characters from children’s favourite stories leaping out from the pages.

Title: Europa 2010 Children's Books
Date of Issue: 9 February 2010
Country: Jersey
Denominations: 37p, 42p, 45p, 80p

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Traditional Taiwanese Residences Postage Stamps (II)

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:24:11 GMT

Chunghwa Post will issue a second set of four stamps on the topic, featuring the Lin An-tai Historical Home in Taipei, the Li Family Compound in Luzhou, Taipei County, the Lin Family Compound in Wufeng, Taichung County, and Xiaoyun Villa in Shengang, Taichung County.

1. The Lin An-tai Historical Home in Taipei (NT$5.00): First built in 1783, this compound with two courtyards and several side wings is characteristic of the Anxi style of residential architecture in northern Taiwan. It is an outstanding example of a merchant’s home from that era. Due to a road widening project, the structure was taken apart in 1978 and then reassembled in Binjiang Park by the Taipei City Government in 1984.

2. The Li Family Compound in Luzhou, Taipei County (NT$5.00): First built in 1857 and renovated in 1903, this compound has three courtyards and several side wings. It is representative of large traditional rural dwellings in northern Taiwan. The Li Family Compound has the simple, solid style of a farmer’s home and the stately spirit of a residence of an important official or member of the gentry. It is a historical abode with a strong cultural flavor.

3. The Lin Family Compound in Wufeng, Taichung County (NT$5.00): First built in 1858, this house has several courtyards and side wings. It is the largest historical government official’s residence in Taiwan. Parts of the complex collapsed during the 921 Earthquake. They have largely been restored in the years since.

4. Xiaoyun Villa in Shengang, Taichung County (NT$12.00): First built in 1866, this compound has two courtyards and several side wings. It is a home that is romantic, cultural and artistic at the same time. Several later additions to the compound are a mixture of Japanese and western architectural styles. The villa could serve as a museum to the history of residential architecture in Taiwan all by itself.

Title: Traditional Taiwanese Residences Postage Stamps (II)
Date of Issue: 9 February 2010
Country: Taiwan
Denominations: NT$5.00 x 3, NT$12.00

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Maps

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:12:40 GMT

Jersey Post will issue five new self-adhesive postage stamps for use on items of mail requiring the minimum postage tariff for the other Channel Islands and United Kingdom destinations. The stamps will feature a variety of maps of Jersey, both antique and modern, dating from 1685 and it is interesting to observe the apparent thoughts of cartographers over the different periods of time.

These Non Value Indicator stamps (NVI's) will be the first set of stamps to bear a change in the wording of Jersey Post’s NVIs. Previously, each NVI stamp in this set would have been titled ‘UK Minimum Postage Paid’ but the stamps will now read ‘UK Letter’ instead.

Title: Maps
Date of Issue: 9 February 2010
Country: Jersey
Denominations: Non Value Indicator stamps-UK Letter

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Modern Art in Austria – Helmut Kand

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:12:02 GMT

Austria post issues a new commemorative stamp of cheerful and colourful continuation of the popular “Modern Art in Austria” series. The new stamp depicts a painting by Helmut Kand, a poetic Surrealist or, as the “Münchner Abendzeitung” once put it, “a man who makes the impossible plausible”.

Prof. Helmut Kand spent his childhood in Styria “in an art-loving house” and studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Albert Paris Gütersloh and Rudolf Hausner.

Title: Modern Art in Austria – Helmut Kand
Date of Issue: 10 February 2010
Country: Austria
Denominations: 0.55 EUR

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Prinz Eugen

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:11:49 GMT

In a way the new commemorative by the Austrian Post Office is a philatelic accompaniment to the major exhibition on “Prinz Eugen, General and Philosopher. The Noble Knight as Cultural Hero” (12 February to 6 June 2010 in the Unteres Belvedere and the Orangerie). The stamp thus commemorates one of the country’s most important personalities and shows an impressive portrait by the painter at the Imperial Court, Jacob van Schuppen, dated after 1717 (original 130 x 50 cm, oil on canvass).

Title: Prinz Eugen
Date of Issue: 12 February 2010
Country: Austria
Denominations: 0.65 EUR

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Classic Trademarks “Kleinbahn”

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:10:46 GMT

In 1979 “Gebrüder Klein OHG” was dissolved and split up into two companies. After 1984, two model railway manufacturers were run at the old company site, with Erich Klein managing the “Kleinbahn, mechanische Werkstätte – Spielwarenerzeugung Ing. Erich Klein” and continuing the successful line of inexpensive products, a business that has now been taken over by his daughter. Oskar Klein senior renamed his enterprise “Klein Modellbahn GesmbH”, which was run after his death by his son Oskar Klein.

Title: Classic Trademarks "Kleinbahn"
Date of Issue: 16 February 2010
Country: Austria
Denominations: 0.55 EUR

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Classic Trademarks "Palmers"

Girl guiding

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:09:30 GMT

The Isle of Man Post Office celebrate the Centenary of Guiding with this set of eight stamps which also includes the Europa theme of Children’s Books. The Girl Guides Association was officially formed in 1910 with Agnes Baden-Powell (Robert’s sister) as President.

The first Isle of Man Guide Company 1st Douglas (St. Matthews) was officially registered on 7th February 1916, followed by the 2nd Douglas (St Georges) and 3rd Douglas on 17th October 1917.

Of the early Companies to be registered the Company with the longest continuous registration is 9th Douglas (St Ninian’s), which has run for eighty years, from January 1930 to the present day, without a break.

The lives of many thousands of girls and women on the Island have been influenced by Guiding during the first one hundred years of its remarkable history. Girlguiding Isle of Man is today the largest voluntary youth organisation on the Island, with 1,300 members; girls, young women and adults. Membership of the Trefoil Guild is open to anyone over the age of 18 who has been or still is a member of Girlguiding UK or the Scout Association.

Title: Girl guiding
Date of Issue: 18 February 2010
Country: Isle of Man
Denominations: 32p x 2, 33p x 2, 56p x 2, £1 x 2

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Celebrating our Olympic spirit

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:08:32 GMT

During the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Canada Post will issue a set of commemorative stamps that celebrate the exhilaration and binding power of the Olympic Spirit.

“For fans and athletes alike, the Games are an emotional event,” explains Alain Leduc, Manager of Stamp Design and Production at Canada Post. “The Signals Design Group, the design team behind the issue, had as a goal to create a visual that could represent both the experience and memory of that emotion.” Inspiration for the design was derived from the Olympic Movement’s core goal: “To contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practised without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic Spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” Leduc explains, “The designers wanted to reflect this spirit through the reaction in the eyes and faces of Canadian youth. Their idea was that we, as Canadians, have our own unique way of celebrating, supporting and displaying our national pride; it doesn’t necessarily include marching bands and balloons. It’s often more subtle. It’s commonplace to see young Canadians in toques and painted faces cheering on their favourite teams and athletes. And the iconic maple leaf, along with the red and white colour scheme, tell the viewer immediately that this is a Canadian event.”

The backgrounds of the two stamps feature photographs of four events: men’s four-man bobsleigh, women’s cross-country sprint, men’s short track relay speed skating, and Canadian cross-country skier Chandra Crawford as she accepts her gold medal at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Italy. “The designers chose these particular images from hundreds of contenders because they contained gender representation, individual and team events, colour, form, and energy,” Leduc notes.

The graphic patterns in the background of the first day cover, souvenir sheet and booklet extend the energies within the stamp in abstract ways that can be read as movement, ice, snow, carved lines from blades and skis, and indoor and outdoor environments. “The success of this design relies heavily on the arrangement of its components,” says Leduc of the design team’s vision. “Each element contains energy arcs that we carefully layered to make it dynamic, yet accessible. By overlapping parts of each scene and altering their planes of axis, they work individually and together in a motion-filled circulating collage.”

Title: Celebrating our Olympic spirit
Date of Issue: 22 February 2010
Country: Canada
Denominations: 57c x 2

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The bottom of the sea

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:08:11 GMT

Faroe Islands post will issue a set of postage stamps showing the natural beauty at the bottom of the sea.

The Faroe Islands have many unique and beautiful submarine landscapes. Absolutely fantastic places where nobody has ever been. And many, many years will pass before even half of this exceptional, uncharted world at the bottom of the sea has been explored.

There are also many hidden and forgotten shipwrecks from previous centuries here that conceal numerous exciting, thought-provoking secrets.

What makes diving in the Faroes so unique is the ever-varying submarine landscape, extensive thickets of seaweed alternating with attractive “sand eyes” (patches of sand on the bottom called sandeyga in Faroese), vertical walls that disappear into the depths and a host of submarine chasms and grottoes in shapes of all kinds that are really exciting to explore. The water is crystal clear in many places and allows the sun’s rays to throw shadows on the sea floor. Plaice, flounder, dab, small halibut and angler fish lie immobile in the sand while they observe the diver gliding soundlessly through the water like a bird floating across the firmament.

The Faroes are truly a diver’s paradise that compares favourably with any other place on earth. Expressing the experience of sailing beneath the bird cliffs in fine weather before diving is no easy matter. The sun, the towering cliffs, the birds, the sea, the fish, the thickets of seaweed, the play of colours and incredible rock formations on the bottom where everything forms a synthesis are quite indescribable.

The four photos reproduced on the postage stamps were taken at Kvívík. Diving at Kvívík is like taking a walk in an enchanted grove, with the difference that you can see beautiful, multicoloured thickets of seaweed and the sandy bottom, or “sand eyes”. You can either swim on the surface or negotiate a tangled thicket of seaweed to reach the sand and it was here, at a depth of about five metres, that the photos for the postage stamps were taken. Many different life forms can be seen such as the big starfish that lives on horse mussels, which are also found here – very well camouflaged.

Title: The bottom of the sea
Date of Issue: 22 February 2010
Country: Faeroe Islands
Denominations: 1KR, 6KR,8KR,12KR

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Long-finned Pilot Whale

Philatelynews — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:07:44 GMT

The pilot whale (Globicephala melas) is an extremely gregarious animal that regularly swims along the Faroese coast on its migration within its habitat in the northern Atlantic Ocean. During the approximately 300 years for which we have statistics, somewhere between 800 and 1500 whales have been killed annually in the Faroes. It is estimated that 1000 whales can produce roughly 500 tonnes of meat and blubber, and the pilot whale has thus been immensely important to the population of the islands down the ages.

The only terrestrial mammals on the Faroes are a few small rodents. Therefore, the only mammals that have been hunted regularly are seals, to be found in abundance along the coast. One exception is the hare, but it was introduced onto the islands in the 19th century. The capture of pilot whales is not hunting in the true sense of the word. They are not hunted. They are driven ashore when a pod happens to swim by.

On the Faroes there has always been free access to the resources of the sea. This also applies to pilot whales. On the other hand, catching them requires extensive social organisation. On account of the topography of the islands, there are only a few places where it is possible to drive a pod of whales ashore and slaughter them. Since 1832, legislation has governed where pilot whales may be caught. There were probably also rules on this earlier. However, the legislation does not give the inhabitants of a village with a specified catch site a preferential right to catch the whales. The meat and blubber of pilot whales is equally distributed among all inhabitants, whether newborn or elderly. Even visitors get their lawful share. For practical reasons, the country is divided into pilot whale districts, but over time there will be food for all. In this way, a unique distribution system has emerged in connection with the exploitation of this important resource.

Title: Long-finned Pilot Whale
Date of Issue: 22 February 2010
Country: Faroe Islands
Denominations: 50KR

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