Hot tiger in frigid weather. My UNICATE/UNIKAT maximum card (with my custom postcard from winkflash.com) that I created with the Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) superb stamp from UK (50th anniversary of WWF). Also, I got on it a world-class (PAD PRINTED) pictorial postmark (tiger), FDOI 22 March 2011, from Dunkeld, Perthshire, UK

That code on the divider line indicates a custom postcard, that I created at winkflash.com.

The mailing address belongs to my friend Ian Billings, my most favorite stamp dealer from UK.

http://www.norphil.co.uk/2011/03b-worldwide_fund_for_nature_wwf.htm

http://www.norphil.co.uk/

http://www.norphil.co.uk/catalog/

I had to provide a UK valid address to comply with the rules of the Royal Mail UK - so it looks like a valid postcard. Then I got from RM the superb postmark on it.

"The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur, Altaic, Korean, North Chinese or Ussuri tiger, is a subspecies of tiger which once ranged throughout Western Asia, Central Asia and eastern Russia, and as far east as Alaska during prehistoric times, though it is now completely confined to the Amur-Ussuri region of Primorsky Krai andKhabarovsk Krai in far eastern Siberia, where it is now protected. It is the biggest of the eight recent tiger subspecies and the largest living felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen.^[2] Genetic research in 2009 revealed that the current Siberian tiger population is almost identical to the Caspian tiger, a now extinct western population once thought to have been a distinct subspecies."

PR China has many more billionaires in US$ (115), than it has Amur tigers in the wild (20)!

"China says it has nearly 6,000 tigers (of all species) in captivity, but just 50 to 60 are left in the wild, including about 20 Siberian tigers"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_tiger

"Based on the Forbes report released on March 2011, there are 1,210 billionaires boasting worth of $4,500 billion as of February 14, 2011. The United States had 413 billionaires with a total net worth of $1,500 billion; Asia had 332 (nearly three times the number two years previously), 115 of whom were in the People's Republic of China); Europe had 300; and the rest of the world had 165."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire

Comrades, comrades!...save the tigers! :)

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YouTube - Cat mom hugs baby kitten. Lovely! Also, I show you again my cutest blogpost image (rabbit, kitten, piglet), on maxicards. UPDATE: cool jigsaw puzzle from a maximum card

Please watch: YouTube - Cat mom hugs baby kitten
Ain't that cute? :)

UPDATE 29 MAY 2011: here's a cool jigsaw puzzle from one of the above 4x6" postcards/maxicards:

 Joslin Photo Puzzle Co. 

Manufacturers of superb quality custom jigsaw puzzles since 1972 

*Cardboard  *Wood  *Magnetic *Precut Heat Transfer Jigsaw Puzzles 

302 Bel Air Road, Southampton PA 18966-3322 USA 

215.357.8346 

(Fax 215.357.0308) 

http://www.jigsawpuzzle.com

Tell Marcia that Dorincard referred you! (maybe she'll give you a discount) :)

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My second entry for today. :)

Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

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BBC News - Immigrants key to US prosperity. Also, I show you a maxicard that I created in 2006 about the Chrysler Building in NYC. 'Ancestors? I got millions of 'em!' said Walter P. Chrysler, but he admitted that his parents had German and Dutch ancestry

Somebody said that "the immigrants are the backbone of America."


If you think that it sounds that they are not also part of the brain of America - think again. Or read more.

The patent for this classic New York emblem is owned by one of the city's many immigrants, Mr. Chung.

"From Google to Warner Brothers, Goya Foods to Max Factor, immigrants in the US have created some impressive American businesses.

In fact, every census since 1880 shows newcomers to America are more likely than the locals to work for themselves and start a business.

In New York, companies shed 140,000 jobs during the recent recession, but many immigrant communities continued to create employment."

Please read: BBC News - Immigrants key to US prosperity

Maxicard that I created about the Chrysler Building in NYC [New York City, New York]. 

'Ancestors? I got millions of 'em!' said Walter P. Chrysler, but he admitted that his parents had German and Dutch ancestry.

Notice the Technology Day pictorial postmark that I obtained while volunteering at the World Philatelic Exhibition, Washington, D.C. 2006.

"Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American machinist,railroad mechanic and manager, automotive industry executive, Freemason,^[1] and founder of the Chrysler Corporation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_P._Chrysler

"The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. 

Standing at 319 meters (1,047 ft),^[5][6] it was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. 

After the destruction of the World Trade Center, it was again the second-tallest building in New York City until December 2007, when the spire was raised on the 365.8-meter (1,200 ft) Bank of America Tower, pushing the Chrysler Building into third position. 

In addition, The New York Times Building, which opened in 2007, is exactly level with the Chrysler Building in height.^[7]

The Chrysler Building is a classic example of Art Deco architecture and considered by many contemporary architects to be one of the finest buildings in New York City. 

In 2007, it was ranked ninth on the List of America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.^[8] 

It was the headquarters of the Chrysler Corporation from 1930 until the mid-1950s, but, although the building was built and designed specifically for the car manufacturer, the corporation did not pay for the construction of it and never owned it, as Walter P. Chrysler decided to pay for it himself, so that his children could inherit it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Building

"On July 9, 2008 it was announced that the transaction had been completed, and that the Abu Dhabi Investment Council was now the 90% owner of the building."

Like a well-oiled transaction...

http://www.zazzle.com/mm_hmm_postage-172554017647834569?gl=dorinco&rf=238693463283865848

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysler_Building_by_David_Shankbone_Retouched.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysler_Building_detail.jpg

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BBC News - Human brain's 'bat sight' found. Also, I show you The Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) dorincards that I postcardized from book cut-outs (there are no hoary bat regular postcards, for God's sake!) :)

Please read: BBC News - Human brain's 'bat sight' found

Now I show you some of my dorincards with The Hoary Bat, one of the almost 1,000 species of bats known to man.

The alien might know even more.

Since I could NOT find any regular, commercial postcard with a hoary bat, I converted my cut-outs from books into "postcards". 

Don't worry, most of these books and magazines are dirt-cheap, from thrift stores. :)

And you thought that I'm a millionaire, who spend$$ lavishly on this hobby...:)

Notice that the hoary bat is NOT the main subject of the stamp, but ...Hoary Cow!, that never stopped me! :)

Can you see the bat, besides the bird?

Hint: it's below the bird.

Here's a bigger scan:

Compare the above stamp with the stamp in the top image - do you notice the extra selvage that I added, to extend the image of the wings of the bat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lasurius_cinereus.jpg

It's Lasiurus, not Lasurius...

"The hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) is a species of bat in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. It occurs throughout most of North Americaand much of South America, with disjunct populations in the Galapagos and Hawaiian Islands.

The hoary bat averages 13 to 14.5 cm (5 to 5.7 in) long with a 40 cm (15.7 in) wingspan and a weight of 26 g (0.9 oz). It is the largest bat normally found in Canada. Its coat is of a dark brown colour and there is silver frosting on its back. With the major exception of the underside of the wing, most of the bat is covered in fur.

The bat normally roosts alone on trees, hidden among foliage, but on occasion has been seen in caves with other bats. It prefers woodland, mainly coniferous forests, but hunts over open areas or lakes. It hunts alone and its main food source is moths."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoary_bat

"Like other members of the family Vespertilionidae, the hoary bat 

has a unique bony tail that they use as a sort of "feeler"."

You know what? ...Make your own jokes about that...

:)

Like some Stegosaurus, some Hollywood celebutantes/ starlets have created a DUBIOUS NAME for themselves, because they are only known from a certain thing...I also show you a Stegosaurus maxicard from Romania

Maximum card from Romania.

Notice the subject-concordant pictorial postmark;

I bet you saw this beast before...

"Stegosaurus ( /ˌstɛɡɵˈsɔrəs/) is a genus of stegosaurid armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian) in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well.^[1] Due to its distinctive tail spikes and plates, Stegosaurus is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs, along with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Apatosaurus. The name Stegosaurus means "roof lizard" (sometimes put as "covered lizard", but in the sense that a roof covers a building) and is derived from the Greek στέγος-, stegos- ("roof") and σαῦρος, -sauros ("lizard").^[2]At least three species have been identified in the upper Morrison Formation and are known from the remains of about 80 individuals. They lived some 155 to 150 million years ago, in an environment and time dominated by the giant sauropods Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, and Apatosaurus.^[3]

A large, heavily built, herbivorous quadruped, Stegosaurus had a distinctive and unusual posture, with a heavily rounded back, short forelimbs, head held low to the ground and a stiffened tail held high in the air. Its array of plates and spikes has been the subject of much speculation. The spikes were most likely used for defense, while the plates have also been proposed as a defensive mechanism, as well as having display and thermoregulatory (heat control) functions. Stegosaurus was the largest of all the stegosaurians (bigger than genera such as Kentrosaurus and Huayangosaurus) and, although roughly bus-sized, it nonetheless shared many anatomical features (including the tail spines and plates) with the other stegosaurian genera."

"The fact that an animal weighing over 4.5 metric tons (5 short tons) could have a brain of no more than 80 grams (2.8 oz) contributed to the popular old idea that dinosaurs were unintelligent, an idea now largely rejected"

Some Hollywood celebutantes/ starlets have created a DUBIOUS NAME for themselves, because they are only known from a certain thing...

"Nomina dubia (dubious names)

S. ungulatus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

• Stegosaurus affinis, described by Marsh in 1881, is only known from a pubis and is considered a nomen dubium.^[18] It is possibly synonymous with S. armatus."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus

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S, as in Stegosaurus.

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