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Best Stamp Design Featuring Global warming

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Date of Issue - 30 June 2009 Best Stamp Design featuring Global warming Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F)during the last century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation are responsible for most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century. The IPCC also concludes that natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes produced most of the warming from pre-industrial times to 1950 and had a small cooling effect afterward. These basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 45 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countri...

New Stamp Issue Captures Slow-Moving Turtles

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Cocos Island Turtles - Australia stamps Winged Turtle stamps Spiral Turtle Stamps a set of 3 Turtles stamps Turtle Love postage stamps

Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp Prints

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2005 Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp Print Mallards - By Herb Booth $175 NEW LEGISLATION IN 2005 resulted in the Texas Duck (or Waterfowl) Stamp Print being changed to Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp Print. The Stamp will be required for not only duck and goose hunting, but also required for hunting doves. 2006 Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp Print Green-Winged Teal - By David Maass $175 2007 Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp Print Wood Duck - By Bruce Miller $152 Source: http://www.charliesgallery.com/texas-duck-stamp-prints.html Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp Prints

Australian Stamp - Elythranthera emarginata

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Date of issue : 18 Sept 1986 Designer : O.Schmidinger and C.Stead Plant : Elythranthera emarginata Family : Orchidaceae Pink Enamel Orchid A ground orchid. Single leaf to 10 cm long. Glossy pink flowers on stems 20 cm tall. Occurs in south-western Western Australia. Australian Stamp - Elythranthera emarginata

Tips on How to Get Started with Your Stamp Collection

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Tips on How to Get Started with Your Stamp Collection Collecting stamp is a very famous hobby. It is a very easy activity that provides fun to many. If you would like to start your own collection of stamps, here is how to get started: 1. To get started with the hobby, you need to decide first on what kind of topic you would like to use for your collection. It is also recommended to start general but it is more exciting to choose a specific theme for your stamps. If you would like to collect postage stamps from other countries, you may start narrowing down your collection from stamps coming from a specific country that interests you. 2. You may also start by buying new stamps from the market. You can start the collection by choosing a specific country that you would like to choose. This will help you get a good start on your collection and this will also prevent duplication of your collection. Buying a whole pack will give you different designs that will make it interesting for you and ...