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	Definitive stamp -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A definitive (A token that postal fees have been paid) postage stamp is a regular issue stamp that is part of a definitive issue or definitive series consisting of a range of denominations sufficient to cover all postal rates usefully.
		Definitives are the workhorse stamps of a country, and as such, they tend to be small, with designs reflecting local culture and history.
		The definitives of poorer countries will often be very plain and cheaply printed, unlike the large and decorative commemoratives, which are almost pure profit if bought by foreign collectors and never used for postage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/definitive_stamp.htm (418 words)

	Encyclopedia: Postage stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Self-adhesive stamps were first issued in such tropical climates as Sierra Leone and Tonga in an attempt to avoid the sticking-together tendencies traditional water-activated stamps had in humid conditions.
		perforated stamps - while this term is often used to refer to the perforations around the edge of a stamp (used to divide the sheet into individual stamps) it is also a technical term for stamps which have been additionally perforated across the middle leaving a distinctive pattern or monogram.
		Basel Dove 1845 The Basel Dove is a notable stamp from Switzerland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Postage-stamp (3808 words)

	Questions 1 - 10
		Although these stamps were regarded for a long time as private speculations, there is evidence that they were postally used through the assistance of other administrations, including Latvia, which recognized the republic.
		The stamp posted was an unissued imperf sample of issues proposed by general Bulakh-Balakhovitch in 1920 during his brief anti-bolshevik campaign of little value unless used.
		According to the "Catalog of Egyptian Revenue Stamps" by Peter R. Feltus (first edition, 1982), this 1m green stamp is the low value in a set of 10, printed in photogravure by the Survey Department of Egypt, watermarked "crown and arabic F", perf 13 X 13-1/4.
	www.raster.it /stefano/a/stamps/stamps1-10.htm (1594 words)

	You can learn quite a lot from a ministudy
		I have always admired these pictorial stamps for their beautiful designs, but a cursory glance at a variety of different catalogs told me that a ministudy of these stamps would be a good bit more complicated than I had expected.
		The stamp design is transferred to a stone or metal plate using a substance that repels the application of an acidic fluid, which lightly etches the plate where it is not protected by the substance.
		According to the chart, the 1d lithographed stamp has shading on the scene's path that is made of fine dots, and the shading on the mountains is light or nearly absent.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/ministudy_20050815/refreshercourse.asp?uID= (1703 words)

	Canadian National Symbols
		This modest self-adhesive definitive is the one I personally like best, as it shows the flag clearly without any "disturbing" background image.
		A set of five stamps was issued, among those a stamp featuring the original stamp of "Bluenose" (Scott # 913), and the "Beaver" (Scott # 909).
		Equally the polar bear stamp issued 1998 has the face value of 2 Canadian dollars (colloquially called a toonie), corresponding to the 2-dollar coin.
	shoebox.heindorffhus.dk /frame-CanadaNatSymbols.htm (1247 words)

	Alphabetilately: Glossary
		It was used for two different purposes on flat plate engraved stamps of the U. On single-color definitive stamps, which were printed in sheets of 400 (20x20), the guidelines showed where the sheet was to be cut into panes of 100.
		All or part of the surface of each stamp was impressed with a grid of small indentations that were intended to break the surface of the paper and cause it to absorb a cancellation so that it could not be washed and reused.
		Tagging is a chemical substance used to coat a stamp (or as a component of its ink or paper) that reacts to Ultra-Violet light by glowing.
	alphabetilately.com /glossary.html (6447 words)

	Pitcairn Philately
		Through the years since the first definitive issue of Pitcairn stamps was released in 1940, the philately of Pitcairn Island has enjoyed a much-sought-after status among stamp collectors throughout the world.
		The Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis as a species has been known to science since it was discovered in the South Pacific in 1769, but their breeding grounds were not discovered until the 1940s.
		The stamps were designed by Donna McKenna, Wellington, New Zealand.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/pitcairn/philately.shtml (516 words)

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		Through intense character development, innovative plot structure, and dazzling manipulation of point of view, Possessing the Secret of Joy attacks the practice of female genital mutilation and the mythologies various cultures use to sustain this horrific practice.
		Well into her adolescence, Tashi chooses to have a clitorectomy -"the only remaining definitive stamp of Olinka tradition" - to help ensure the solidarity and preservation of her African tribe.
		She almost dies, but she survives and marries.
	www.yoni.com /bookempwr.shtml (1457 words)

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