Li ' l Abner was one of 20 classic American comic strips honored with a USPS commemorative postage stamp.

In 1985, he was honoured with his image on a postage stamp of the United Kingdom, and in 1994 he appeared on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

" The stamp was part of a set commemorating American folk heroes.

Judson Mitchell claims that the Central Committee meeting which elected Andropov as General Secretary, was little more than a rubber stamp meeting.

In the interim, the British parliament periodically passed enabling acts with respect to amendments to Canada's constitution ; this was never anything but a rubber stamp.

The etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.

The stamp was corrected and reprinted with a different color.

In 1980 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and was on a U. S. postage stamp in 1983.

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.

The stamp was designed by Ronald Adair and was part of the U. S. Postal Service's Great Americans series.

In 2006, Greenberg was featured on a United States postage stamp.

The Millennium of Russia monument ( was opened on 8 September 1862 ) on a postage stamp dedicated to the 1140th anniversary of the Russia n statehood in 2002

The College was officially recognized, with its diplomas marked with the official stamp of the Guangdong provincial government.

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.

Bardeen was honored on a March 6, 2008, United States postage stamp as part of the " American Scientists " series designed by artist Victor Stabin.

The $ 0. 41 stamp was unveiled in a ceremony at the University of Illinois.

* He was honored by the United States Postal Service with a 22 ¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.

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

By the time he was 17, Baum established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers ' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends.

Paper record-keeping transformed in the 1960s into a trading stamp scheme managed by the Co-operative Wholesale Society ( CWS ), which was gradually withdrawn as margins declined.

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

The first adhesive postage stamp, commonly referred to as the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840.

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.

Drogba's headed effort marked his ninth goal in nine cup final appearances for Chelsea, Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola spoke after the match about Drogba's ability in big games: " In all their very important matches he has put a stamp on it.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

Schanze and a friend discovered a " stamp " on the flat metal sheet, which upon further inspection turned out to be a faded copy of the Apollo 16 mission insignia.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

In May 2006, Wray became one of the first four entertainers to ever be honored by Canada Post by being featured on a postage stamp.

Hyperinflation is generally associated with paper money, which can easily be used to increase the money supply: add more zeros to the plates and print, or even stamp old notes with new numbers.

The hitchhiker's stamp should also be recorded in the host letterbox's logbook, and vice versa.

A hitchhiker hostel has its own stamp and logbook, just like a traditional letterbox, and any hitchhiker that is placed within it should be stamped and recorded within the logbook, preferably with both the date of its being added to the hostel ( in order to make it easier to move the older hitchhikers out ), and the date it is removed.

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

Maximum Cards can be defined as a picture post card with postage stamp on the same theme and a cancellation, with a maximum concordance between all three.

The identification of watermarks is important and may be done with the naked eye by turning the stamp over or holding it up to the light.

If this fails then watermark fluid may be used, which " wets " the stamp to reveal the mark.

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.

During his evidence, he read from the letter he had written to the Chancellor, which included the statement that a notation of paid postage could be created "… by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash …".

The first stamp, the penny black, was put on sale on 1 May, to be valid as of 6 May 1840 ; two days later the two pence blue was introduced.

By 1850, various methods such as rouletting wheels were being devised in an effort to make stamp separation more efficient and to allow for large numbers of stamps to be quickly separated.

was the first stamp to be perforated in the course of the trials of Archer's perforating machine.

The first stamp issue to be officially perforated, the 3-cent George Washington, was issued by the U. S. Post Office on February 24, 1857.

* 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.

* 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.

The adhesive or gum on a water-activated stamp must be moistened ( usually by licking, thus the stamps are also known as " lick and stick ").

Stamp collectors are an important source of revenue for some small countries that create limited runs of elaborate stamps designed mainly to be bought by stamp collectors.

This plan to stamp out communism backfired, however, and proved to be a damaging embarrassment for the government, especially after Buck was the target of an apparent assassination attempt.

It is not uncommon for the term philatelist, correctly or incorrectly, to be used to mean a stamp collector.