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I just like the chrome.
These figures don't seem to based off of any thing BG related made in 1996 ?
I guess Trendmasters took liberties with the character designs. Instead of making identical to their 70s counterparts ?
And they don't look like the new BG series that came out either..
Not really digging the gigantic gun ! That is Trendmasters for you :)
I love the Mars Attacks figures they did. Their guns are too big as well though !.
Trendmaster's toys are kind of like Toy Biz toy's from the 90s for me. I didn't care for most of what they made. But they made so many different lines. That I couldn't help but find some stuff I liked.
"The Ceylon Covered Bridge is located in Congressional Township 25 North, Sections 21 & 16, and Range 14 East two miles northeast of Geneva on County Road West 950 South, Adams County (latitude: 40°36'51.36"N; longitude 84°56'34.42"W). Originally crossing the Wabash River, over time the river shifted leaving the structure straddling a back channel. Of the 23 known covered bridges to have once traversed this important river this is the last still standing."
I was at home sick for a week, so I broke out the sewing machine and worked on this dress whenever I wasn't lying down watching TV. I love it!
You can find the pattern here:
Sapindaceae (soapberry family) » Schleichera oleosa
SCHLE-eye-cher-uh -- named for J. C. Schleicher, Swiss botanist
oh-lee-OS-uh -- meaning, oily or rich in oil
commonly known as: Ceylon oak, honey tree, lac tree, macassar oil tree • Gujarati: કુસુમ kusum • Hindi: कुसुम kusum, कुसुम्ब kusumb • Kannada: chakota, sagade • Konkani: कोसिंब kosimb • Malayalam: ദൂതളം duuthalam, പൂവം puuvam, പൂവണം puuvanam • Marathi: कोशिंब koshimb, कुसुंब kusumb • Sanskrit: कुसुंभ kusumbha • Tamil: கொஞ்சி konchi, கும்பாதிரி kumpatiri • Telugu: kosangi
Native to: India, Sri Lanka, southeast Asia
References: Flowers of India • Forestry Compendium
Here is two King George V 2 cent stamps. The first is an overprint "War Stamp" its issue was on November 17th 1918 and essentially was a war tax stamp. From what I've seen, which is very limited, wartime stamps, surcharges, taxes etc were typically of a lower quality paper and printing.
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The second is an earlier definitive stamp which was issued in 1912. It carries a cancellation from Slave Island, Ceylon which is just south of the capitol city of Colombo. This postmark was much easier to find than most. The towns on Ceylon have a tendency to have names a mile long. When you have a partial postmark and there are 100 towns that end in "uduwa" well you seen the delima! This definitive stamp was issued in 1912. Note the overall superior appearance of this issue.
Scientific name: Basella alba,
Khmer name: ជន្លង់, ជន្លង់ស,
English name: Malabar spinach, Ceylon spinach,
French name: Epinard de Malaba, Baselle blanche,
Japanese name: ツルムラサキ ,
Thai name: ผักปลัง, ผักปั๋ง,
Korean name: 인디언시금치 ,
Russian name: Базелла белая, Малабарский шпинат,
Chinese name: 落葵, 天葵, 木耳菜, 胭脂豆, 豆腐菜 ,
Vietnamese name: Mồng tơi, Mùng tơi, Mùng tơi trắng.
Ceylon Frogmouth, also called Sri Lanka Frogmouth, is a scarce endemic resident in South India and Sri Lanka. The Frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds mainly found in the tropical forests. The Ceylon Frogmouth is a highly adapted forest bird with froglike croaking call and shape of the head. At night, it hunts insects and beetles with its large gape.
Frogmouth is about 23 cm long. It looks large-headed, and has a large flattened hooked bill and huge frog-like gape. The female is rufous, lightly spotted with white. The male is grey and more heavily spotted. Frogmouths blend brilliantly with the surrounding of its day roosting perch, and roost everyday at the same location. The flight appears weak and fluttery.
Ceylon Frogmouth
Frogmouths build nests on woody climber, dense branches of trees or wooden platforms. They lay 1 or 2 white eggs, which both sexes incubate, usually the female by night, and the male by day. Frogmouths sleep horizontally or lengthwise on the branch of a tree with their heads up and eyes closed. While sleeping no one can easily identify or spot the bird because of its specific colour which perfectly matches with the colour of the surrounding. Frogmouth is best located at night by its song, which is a loud descending cackly and frog-like series of Klock-klock-klock-klock-klock calls. It has the quality of sound produced by rattling pebbles. This is the call of the male and it is often answered by the female whose call is low long harsh Krrshhhh.
Ceylon Frogmouth was first recorded by Dr. Salim Ali in 1930s in Thattekkad. Later it was rediscovered in circa 1990 by ornithologist Dr.R Sugathan, from the same sanctuary. Dr. R Sugathan the famous ornithologist and a student of Dr. Salim Ali.
Ward St, Kandy.
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co (nicknamed 'Right-away & Paid-for' because it operated on cash payments only, no credit) was 'the' colonial emporium or department store in British India and became a household name throughout the East. It was founded in Calcutta by two eponymous Scotsmen in 1882 and it grew to have branches in Bombay, Madras, Lahore and Simla as well as further afield in Burma, the Straits Settlements and in Shanghai. My photo of the Calcutta head office is at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/3030463591/ .
It was a relative latecomer to Ceylon's retail landscape which had its own colonial emporium Cargills & Co (established in Kandy in 1844) - see my photo at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/8269336688 and Miller & Co (also established in Kandy in the 1850s) - see my photo at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/8447304573 .
Ceylon, (now Sri Lanka) ceased operations in 1978, logo used from the late 1950s till 1970s, the bigger one,
17cm
Almost gem Ceylon sapphire with beautiful intense sky blue color. It weighs 3.93 ct., the diamonds total .80ct.
The baguette diamonds were cast in place. The mounting is 18kt. yellow gold
Ceylon Lesser Albatross ( Appias paulina )- Male
Endemic Species
Family: Pieridae. Genus: Appias.
Wingspan : 50-60mm
Kumana National Park, Sri Lanka.
Amazing views, I fell in love with this country at first sight.
This is the place where I felt such a tranquility and peace that I was absolutely happy and in harmony with the Universe. This nature is so wise and perfect.. You just switch off your brain and listen to your soul. And the soul really can hear you.
They say "speak your mind". But here - speak your soul, it is the most sincere way of discovering the inner essence of yourself.