The stamps themselves depict the meteorological station of the Austrian-Hungarian Society at the Botanical Garden of Buenos Aires as well as the historical weather station at Vienna Stadtpark (City Park).
On the 19th October 2010, Malta Post issued a commemorative set of four stamps titled 'Treasures of Malta'. The stamps feature some of the Islands' natural treasures and depict four fascinating sites in the Maltese Islands, the Azure Window - the Natural Arch found at Dwejra Point Cliffs, Blue Grotto – the natural seawater cavern located near Zurrieq, the vertical sea cliffs at Ta'Cenc and the small uninhabited islet of Filfa.
The stamps were designed by the local artist Cedric Galea Pirotta.
On the left of the stamp is Pavarotti's portrait, on the right, the chorus and orchestra.
To complete the stamp, the captions "75th Anniversary of the birth of Luciano Pavarotti", "San Marino", the stamp value "2,20", the printing institute, the year of issue and the name of the stamp designer.
Prime Vision's High Yield Character Recognition technology (HYCR) has been selected for inclusion in an exhibition that celebrates significant Dutch inventions in the last 100 years. This patented recognition technology is the basis of Prime Vision's advanced OCR/ICR that is widely used in automation systems throughout the postal industry. Patent Parade is a touring exhibition that is scheduled to visit 10 Dutch cities and features inventions and patented ideas from diverse walks of life: the home, multimedia, sports equipment, environment and medical technology to name but a few.
"Prime Vision is very proud to be included in Patent Parade," the company's Mark Ryder explains. "And the icing on the cake is that our technology is also the basis of the design for a special postage stamp released to mark the run of the Patent Parade Exhibition."
The exhibition was launched in Delft earlier this year and is currently in Den Haag. It then moves on to Almere, Eindhoven, Arnhem and Rotterdam, with its final port of call being Amsterdam in March and April 2011.
The "cornerstones" of the new series are two postage stamps depicting agate found near the city of Lepoglava and limestone from the island of Brac. The featured samples are from the mineralogical-petrographic collection of the Croatian Natural History Museum.
