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What year was the first Australian Antartic Territory stamp issue?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 12:10 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

The first stamp inscribed AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY was a blue and white 2/. value, issued March 27th 1957 in Australia, but was not used in the Territory until December 1957.

http://www.earsathome.co m/aat.html

Answered at 5:57 PM on January 26, 2009

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Why was the 1980 15cent stamp, depicting the ship SY Nimrod, reissued with a different design?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 12:13 PM on January 26, 2009

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The set contained an interesting error. The ship shown on the 15c stamp issued on 21/5/1980 was supposed to be the NIMRO, but as incorrect archival material had been given to the designer Ray Honisett, the ship depicted is actually the Morning .The photograph, taken from Shackletons book Heart of the Antarctic shows very clearly that the funnel on the �NIMROD� is between the 1st and 2nd masts, whereas it is behind the 2nd mast on the �MORNING�.

http://www.earsathome .com/aat.html

Answered at 5:52 PM on January 26, 2009

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The 1994 kangaroo booklet stamps created another Australian 'first', in that they are not square or rectangular. What shape are they?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 12:31 PM on January 26, 2009

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1994 Kangaroo ATM Triangle Booklet

Answered at 5:31 PM on January 26, 2009

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What was unique about the kangaroo booklet of 20 stamps issued on November 2, 1994?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 12:28 PM on January 26, 2009

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They could be procured through ATMs, this was the unique feature of it all.

Answered at 5:34 PM on January 26, 2009

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Moving away from the frozen south, can you give the common name for the first stamps issued by the State of New South Wales in 1850?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 12:21 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

the first stamps appeared on 1 January 1850. They were locally produced, and depicted a scene of Sydney and its harbour, thus becoming known as the "Sydney Views". The 1d, 2d, and 3d stamps were separately engraved, and then re-engraved and retouched over the next year, yielding dozens of varieties.

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal _history_of_New_South_Wales

Answered at 5:42 PM on January 26, 2009

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One of the philatelic world's better known error rarities is the fourpence blue Swan, issued by Western Australia in 1855. What name is given to this stamp?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 12:24 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

The Inverted Swan, a 4-pence blue postage stamp issued in 1855 by Western Australia, was one of the world's first invert errors. Technically, it is a "frame invert".

In 1854, Western Australia issued its first stamps, featuring the colony's symbol, the Black Swan, as did all WA stamps until 1902. While the 1d black was engraved in Great Britain by Perkins Bacon, other values, including the 4d blue, were produced by Horace Samson in Perth using lithography, and with different frames around the swan design for each value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Inverted_Swan

Answered at 5:37 PM on January 26, 2009

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WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANTS?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 5:23 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

Ants are social insects. There are many different kinds that come in different sizes and are located in different places. Ants' bodies definitely narrow between the thorax and abdomen. They have strong bites.

There are three kinds of ants in a colony: a queen, males and workers. The queens and males have wings while the workers don't. When the males and females mate, they fly up in the air and the male deposits huge numbers of sperm cells in the female. They then return to earth where the female tears off her wings and starts laying eggs. The males die soon after the mating.

Answered at 5:25 PM on January 26, 2009

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HOW DO ANTS REPRODUCE?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 5:24 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

When the males and females mate, they fly up in the air and the male deposits huge numbers of sperm cells in the female. They then return to earth where the female tears off her wings and starts laying eggs. The males die soon after the mating.

http://www.virted.org/ Animals/Ants.html

Answered at 5:26 PM on January 26, 2009

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WHAT KINDS OF JOBS DO ANTS DO?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 5:21 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

Most ants have 3 'castes', workers, males and queens.

workers are sterile females and they do all the work of keeping the colony running smoothly (like in honey bees) they build, guard, and clean the nest, take care of juveniles and the queen, forage for food.

male ants only exist to inseminate a queen.

queens produce more ants.

Some tropical ants also have the soldier caste. These specialize in defense.

Source(s):
http://www. antnest.co.uk/caste.html

Answered at 5:23 PM on January 26, 2009

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HOW DO BATS FIND FOOD?

Asked by premkumar v in Do It Yourself at 5:27 PM on January 26, 2009

Keshto Patel's Answer

By sonar and by the heat sensors in the olfactory network.Sonically its a matter of screeching and listening for the return echo of sound waves or the muting of them and by olfactory it is by smell and also as with pit vipers by sensing warmth from mammals and other creatures who have generated or absorbed heat that can be sensed

Answered at 5:28 PM on January 26, 2009

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