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It is a warm sunny day in the American Midwest. We really need some rain.
We are up to the letter "H" in the tour of the alphabet. Here is a British stamp celebrating Edmund Halley:
Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He is remembered most, I suspect, for computing the orbit of a bright comet, and predicting its return. This comet is known as Halley's comet now. This illustration is a mash-up of Halley's face and the comet. I am not sure it's successful.
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5 comments:
What a beautiful stamp! Nice information. (Love your final comment of Halley's paragraph! :-))
Yes its the cartoonist Ralph Steadman he tends to do what I can only describe as scratchy, sometimes grotesque, caricatures.
It is a strange illustration, but I like the theme.
I'm glad you explained the image! I thought it was something with feathers before reading it was H for Halley, therefore the comet.
I was also thinking feathers... had to blow it up (and needed the explanation) to see it. A 'grotesque' is an apt description. I raather like it.
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