A www petition initiated by NASA scientists is pushing for new postage stamp for the dwarf planet and is hoping to hit at least 100.000 signatures by March 13th, which is the 82nd anniversary of Pluto's discovery.
The Artist Dan Durda concepted a U.S. postage stamp honoring the New Horizons mission to Pluto. The probe's team has launched an online petition to make the stamp a reality:
The Kingdom of Lesotho, one of the dwarf countries of the African continent has already published a Pluto stamp:
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37.895 pieces of a most spectacular collection of coins relating to the entirety of Spanish history went on display Tuesday in New York for an auction organized by Sotheby's next month.
The collection - part from the Archer M. Huntington collection - includes coins from antiquity through modern era. The coins are and valued between US$25 million and US$35 million. They will be sold in a single batch in a sealed bid auction that ends March 8.
The Chinese postage stamp depicting a dragon – designed by Chen Shaohua – has drawn sharp criticism on the nation's microblogs, with many saying it puts too frightening a face on their rising country. In defense, Chen Shaohua, said the fierce-looking dragon represents China’s growing confidence.
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Two British students – Saiman Miah and Pippa Sanderson – have had the honour of designing the official UK coins to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The winning designs were selected following a Royal Mint competition for art and design students attending higher education colleges and universities across the UK.
Saiman Miah designed the Official London 2012 Olympic £5 coin. His design features the London skyline and the River Thames, with the pictograms of athletes placed around the outside of the design like a clock face, representing one of London’s greatest icons - Big Ben.
Pippa Sanderson, graduated student at Hereford College of Arts, won the Royal Mint competition to design the official UK £5 coin for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
No meat: here are new U.S. holiday postage stamps launched by PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to salute famous vegetarians. One sheet with 20 stamps costs US$ 19,99.
Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson teamed up to unveil the postage sheets in Hollywood.
Paul McCartney: "If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty."
As the Washington Post reports the four bronze coins were stamped around 17 A.D. by the Roman official Valerius Gratus. The coins were found inside a ritual bath that predated construction of the renovated Temple Mount complex.
This newly found coins underneath Jerusalem’s Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world’s most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists say.
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