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Ghostwire: Tokyo was released on March 25, 2022 for Windows and PlayStation 5, where it remained a timed console-exclusive for one year. A version of the game for Xbox Series X/S was later released on April 12, 2023 alongside the "Spider's Thread" content update, which introduced new enemy types, unlockable skills, side-missions, story ...
The 5-cent Franklin and the 10-cent Washington postage stamps issued in 1847 were the first postage stamps issued and authorized for nationwide postal duty by the U.S. Post Office. The firm of Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, and Edson of New York City were given a four-year contract to print the first U.S. postage stamps in 1847.
Stamps produced by the offset process were issued with a perforation gauge of 11 with the one exception of the 1919 1-cent issue with gauge 12½. The first Washington–Franklin stamp printed by the offset process was a 3-cent Washington-head, issued on March 22, 1918. The 1-cent green followed and was issued on December 24, 1918.
The 1869 Pictorial Issue is a series of definitive United States postage stamps released during the first weeks of the Grant administration. Ten types of stamp in denominations between one cent and ninety cents were initially offered in the series, with eight of these introduced on March 19 and 20, 1869 and the two greatest values being distributed somewhat later. [1]
The Benjamin Franklin Z Grill, or simply "Z-Grill", is a 1-cent postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in February 1868 depicting Benjamin Franklin.While stamps of this design were the common 1-cent stamps of the 1860s, the Z-Grill is distinguished by having the so-called "Z" variety of a grill pressed into the stamp, creating tiny indentations in the paper.
It offered twenty-four denominations, ranging from a half-cent issue showing Benjamin Franklin to a five dollar issue depicting Alexander Hamilton. However, in a notable departure from all definitive series since 1870, the stamp for a normal first-class letter—the 3-cent value—did not present the portrait of a president, but instead offered ...
Flat-faced, long-nosed, miserable, is the mask of that jovial philosopher as Uncle Sam's one-cent stamp depicts him. Not content with names and dates, the designer has added certain touches of "high art" which will make other nations split with envy. Who ever thought of putting full-length caryatids, and caryatids of the male sex on a postal stamp!
The library now had eleven paid-up members. [3] Joseph Stretch and his brothers provided half of the original capital to build Pennsylvania Hospital, [4] another of Benjamin Franklin's projects. Over time, fifty subscribers invested 40 shillings each and promised to pay ten shillings a year thereafter to buy books and maintain a shareholder's ...