According to Truffaut's theory, auteurs took material that was beneath their talents — a thriller, a pulpy action film, a romance — and, through their style, put their own personal stamp on it.

Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp, either on their personal notebook or on a postcard, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's " visitors ' book " or " logbook " — as proof of having found the box and letting other letterboxers know who has visited.

Early stamp images were almost always produced from engravings — a design etched into a steel die, which was then hardened and whose impression was transferred to a printing plate.

* Airmail stamp — for payment of airmail service.

* Booklet stamp — stamps produced and issued in booklet format.

* Commemorative stamp — a stamp that is issued for a limited time to commemorate a person or event.

* Customised stamp — a stamp on which the image can be chosen by the purchaser by sending in a photograph or by use of the computer.

* Late fee stamp — issued to show payment of a fee to allow inclusion of a letter or package in the outgoing dispatch although it has been turned in after the cut-off time.

* Military stamp — stamp for a country ’ s armed forces, usually using a special postal system.

* Minisheet — a commemorative issue smaller than a regular full sheet of stamps, but with more than one stamp.

* Newspaper stamp — used to pay the cost of mailing newspapers and other periodicals.

* Official mail stamp — issued for use by the government or a government agency.

* Occupation stamp — a stamp for use by an occupying army or by the occupying army or authorities for use by civilians

* Non-denominated postage — postage stamp that remains valid even after the price has risen.

* Perforated stamps — while this term usually refers to perforations around a stamp to divide a sheet into individual stamps, it can also be used for stamps perforated across the middle with letters or a pattern or monogram, which are known as " perfins.

* Postage due — a stamp showing that the full postage has not been paid, and indicating the amount owed.

* Postal tax — a stamp indicating that a tax above the postage rate required for sending letters has been paid.

* Self-adhesive stamp — not requiring moisture to stick.

* Semi-postal / charity stamp — a stamp with an additional charge for charity.

There is a movement to petition the postmaster general to issue a U. S. postage stamp for him in 2011, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter.

Bellarmine's books bear the stamp of their period ; the effort for literary elegance ( so-called " maraviglia ") had given place to a desire to pile up as much material as possible, to embrace the whole field of human knowledge, and incorporate it into theology.

Holders of a Russian passport need a visa authorized by Costa Rica, or alternatively Costa Rican authorities will accept Russian nationals with a visa stamp for the European Union, Canada, USA, South Korea, or Japan valid for 90 days after arrival ; with a tourist visa, Russians can stay in Costa Rica for a maximum of 90 days.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

Geocachers are free to take objects ( except the logbook, pencil, or stamp ) from the cache in exchange for leaving something of similar or higher value.

At the time an IRC could be exchanged for a single-rate, ordinary postage stamp for surface delivery to a foreign country, as this was before the introduction of airmail services.

This is the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism ( against Jews, Arabs, and British alike ), and misrepresentation are means, and a " Leader State " is the goal.

On March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.

They could be bonus stamps inside boxes, a stamp you just have to ask for, etc.

This National Assembly, which essentially acts as a rubber stamp for the LPRP, approves all new laws, although the executive branch retains authority to issue binding decrees.

* 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

" It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word " sex ," although as a synonym for gender.

This stamp is taken to mean that the person is deemed to have permission to remain either for three months or for the period shown on his visa ( whichever is shorter ).

Most such devices include a tiny postage stamp sized LCD screen for viewing simplified ladder logic ( only a very small portion of the program being visible at a given time ) and status of I / O points, and typically these screens are accompanied by a 4-way rocker push-button plus four more separate push-buttons, similar to the key buttons on a VCR remote control, and used to navigate and edit the logic.

The postage stamp resolved this issue in a simple and elegant manner, with the additional benefit of room for an element of beauty to be introduced.

The postage stamp afforded convenience for both the mailer and postal officials, more efficiently recovered costs for the postal service, and ultimately resulted in a better, faster postal system.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

For immigration control, immigration officials of many countries stamp passports with entry and exit stamps.

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* Topical stamp collecting – many collectors choose to organize their philatelic collection on the theme of the stamps, covers, or postmarks.

For this reason, many highly-specific stamp clubs have been established on the Web, with international membership.

Social organizations, such as the Lions Club and Rotary International, have also formed stamp collecting groups specific to those stamps that are issued from many countries worldwide that display the organization's logo.

The two most common type of event driven property taxes are stamp duty, charged upon change of ownership, and inheritance tax, which is imposed in many countries on the estates of the deceased.

Historically, in many countries, a contract needed to have a stamp affixed to make it valid.

Perhaps his most impressive achievement as a composer was his ability to transform so many of the main musical forms of his day and stamp them with his own identity.

The cancellations of some countries have been extensively studied by philatelists and many stamp collectors and postal history collectors collect cancellations in addition to the stamps themselves.

Historically, collectors disliked pen cancels and removed many of them, making the stamp appear unused or to add a fake cancellation.

All traces of former ownership marks, except for a small part of a bright pink stamp which overlapped the writing on folio 223 of the Speculum, had been removed, perhaps to avoid tax liability for the former owner ( although as historian Kirsten Seaver noted many years later, stamps on random book pages indicate institutional, not private ownership ).

He was struck with horror, along with many other Romans of the graver stamp, at the licence of the Bacchanalian mysteries, which he attributed to the influence of Greek manners ; and he vehemently urged the dismissal of the philosophers ( Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus ), who came as ambassadors from Athens, on account of the dangerous nature of the views expressed by them.

The whole affair, which became known as the Arms Crisis, allowed Lynch to stamp his control on his government, but would eventually lead to deep division in Fianna Fáil for many decades to come.

In many countries this practice is legal, provided the artistamp isn't passed-off as or likely to be mistaken for a genuine postage stamp.

The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

* The shamrock is featured on the passport stamp of Montserrat, many of whose citizens are of Irish descent.

So many of his peers of the time had that one huge mega-hit that would stamp them as eternal legends, and while Burke came close, he never found that one everlasting song.

His life was one of incessant eager questioning of nature on all sides, and his many and varied works all bear the stamp of a fresh and original genius, capable of stating and solving problems in all departments of science — at one time finding the true explanation of stone skipping ( formerly attributed to the elasticity of water ) and at another helping to lay the foundations of our modern vulcanology and meteorology.

The first stamp magazine was the Monthly Intelligencer from Birmingham, England, followed shortly by many others.

The first use was by Sierra Leone in 1964, and the United States tried it on a 1974 Christmas stamp, although the experiment was judged a failure and not repeated for many years.

For this version, it seems he may have used the same female sitter for The Satyr and the Peasant as he did for The Adoration of the Shepherds, and it is thought that Jordaens used this painting as instruction for his assistants and pupils, as many versions and copies of the scene have been found which bear the same style, but without the master's stamp.

Westphalian, and Low German in general, unlike many of the Middle German dialects, were too distant from standard German to be considered dialects and were therefore not tolerated and efforts were made to stamp it out.