There will usually be a first day of issue postmark, frequently a pictorial cancellation, indicating the city and date where the item was first issued, and " first day of issue " is often used to refer to this postmark.

Every year, the post office also creates a special Christmas hand-cancellation pictorial postmark for use during December, which also attracts mail from all over the world.

It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann's early tales, however pictorial or even picturesque the surface, is already toward the symbolic, the emblematic, the expressionistic.

Flatness may now monopolize everything, but it is a flatness become so ambiguous and expanded as to turn into illusion itself -- at least an optical if not, properly speaking, a pictorial illusion.

An emoticon () is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood.

Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.

Paul Cézanne, who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasising pictorial structure, and he is more often called a post-Impressionist.

The study of ancient Mesopotamian architecture is based on available archaeological evidence, pictorial representation of buildings, and texts on building practices.

The fact that the toy car has four wheels, for example, is part of its pictorial form, because the real car had four wheels.

The pictorial form of a proposition is best captured in the pictorial form of a thought, as thoughts consist only of pictorial form.

This pictorial form is logical structure.

Found in 1852, it is one of the main pictorial testaments to the layout of the trireme.

The frieze is located around the inside of the base of the dome and is a chronological, pictorial history of the United States from the landing of Christopher Columbus to the Wright Brothers's flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and Norse laws recorded in the 13th century.

The use of human skulls as drinking vessels — another common motif in popular pictorial representations of the Vikings — is also ahistorical.

: Though in Theravāda literature there is no mention of an actual pictorial execution of a ” Wheel of Life ,” yet the concept of comparing Dependent Origination to a wheel is not unknown.

Nevertheless, the Demoiselles is the logical picture to take as the starting point for Cubism, because it marks the birth of a new pictorial idiom, because in it Picasso violently overturned established conventions and because all that followed grew out of it.

The Late Bronze Age is the time par excellence of the lens-shaped seal and the seal ring, which continued in to the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods, in the form of pictorial engraved gems.

It is worth pointing out that the sidereal signs and the tropical signs are both geometrical conventions of 30 ° each, whereas the zodiacal constellations are pictorial representations of mythological figures projected onto the celestial sphere based on patterns of visible star groupings, none of which occupy precisely 30 ° of the ecliptic.

This is particularly true in the case of pictorial postmarks if the colour in question has some connection to the commemoration.

It is common to use add-on code 9998 for mail addressed to the postmaster ( to which requests for pictorial cancellations are usually addressed ), 9999 for general delivery and other high-numbered add-on codes for business reply mail.

Early Lakota history is recorded in their Winter counts ( Lakota: waniyetu wowapi ), pictorial calendars painted on hides or later recorded on paper.

:" We frankly confess that we detest his subjects ... he has chosen the least pictorial range of scenery and civilization ; he has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial ... and, to reward his audacity, he has incontestably succeeded.

The concentration on each element as equally important was a key step towards generating a pictorial sign for each element.

The equilibrium which the Yellow Book poses between art and text is emphasized by the separate title pages before each individual work whether literary or pictorial.

Other Plains tribes kept pictorial records, known as " winter counts ", however the Kiowa calendar system is unique recording two events for each year, offering a finer grained record of the passage of time and twice as many entries for any given period.

Finally, language-based approaches require that the user and system share some, very limited, domain-specific language so that they can react to each other and the system can ' understand ' a greater proportion of the users actions, Crawford suggests approaches that only use, for example, pictorial languages or restricted versions of English.

Also known Teppothsavam (= Theppam + urchavam ), this pictorial and colourful festival takes place on 7 days in the Tamil month of masi, 3 days for Lord Parthasarathy, one each for Sri Narasimhar, Sri Ranganathar, Sri Ramar and Sri Gajendra Varadhar.

By the 1920s and 1930s the pictures which dominated each issue of the magazine were almost exclusively photographic, although artists might still be used to illustrate in pictorial form topics such as budgetry expenditure or the layout of coal mines.

* AdaOnline " combines the text of Vladimir Nabokov's longest and richest novel, in one frame, and in another, annotations and fore-and afternotes to each chapter, hyperlinked to each other and to a third frame incorporating supplementary materials, especially pictorial illustrations and a list of verbal and thematic motifs in the novel.

The KCVI Yearbook Committee creates a pictorial account of each year in a year book called " The Times ".

( Theatre World is the oldest definitive pictorial and statistical record of each American theatrical season and serves as a reference for theater professionals, students, and historians worldwide.

Apparel brands and retailers are more focused on presentation and use pictorial planograms that illustrate the look and also identify each product.

In 1853, he started a pictorial weekly newspaper Illustrated News and a year later completed his autobiography, which through many revisions, sold more than one million copies.

In 1908, Austria issued a series of large pictorial stamps, designed by Koloman Moser, to commemorate the 60th year of Franz Josef's reign, depicting previous emperors, Franz Josef at various ages, Schönbrunn Palace, and the Hofburg ( both in Vienna ).

In the same year, Denmark's first pictorial stamp was a 5-kroner issue depicting the Copenhagen General Post Office.

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning has been awarded since 1922 for a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons published during the year, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing, and pictorial effect.

His work as a film critic led him to Hollywood, where he wrote several articles on censorship and a pictorial review of the first year of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, The Roosevelt Year: 1933.

Later that year, she was featured in a nude pictorial in the March 2006 issue of Playboy.

Naba Hullod: Reform screams ; a pictorial review at the close of the year 1921.

During the time Byron has worked for them, he has photographed some of Britain's top glamour models ncluding Samantha Fox, Katie Price aka Jordan, Jessica-Jane Clement, Marina Baker ( whom he had discovered and photographed for her Miss March 1987 pictorial ), and 2006 Playboy Special Edition model of the year Louise Glover.