By Martinne Geller NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dean Metropoulos may not be a household name, but the food industry veteran's reach extends from the pantry to the refrigerator to the freezer. Metropoulos, who works with his sons Daren and Evan, has teamed up with longtime partner Apollo Global Management to buy some snack cake brands from bankrupt Hostess Brands Inc . Hostess said on Monday that their $410 million bid was unrivaled, paving the way for the sale of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Cupcakes once a U.S. bankruptcy court approves. ...
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Fig.1.The small republic of San Marino issued a series of nine values, showing a Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Pteranodon, Elasmosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Thaumatosaurus, Iguanodon and Triceratops -mostly in dull colors (all images ? as images from government documents ? are in public domain).
Fig.2. An interesting series of psychedelic postage stamps from Tanzania (1991), presenting the first (very) colorful dinosaurs.
Fig.3. Many editions of stamps with dinosaurs are intended for the market and collectors ? therefore often more aesthetic appealing than scientific accurate. Sometimes the motif is even simply copied from other artists or publications, like these two specimens, copies from the Saltopus by Jane Burton and the Tyrannosaurus by Doug Henderson.
Fig.4. The first postage stamps showing tracks of dinosaurs were released in Lesotho in 1984.
Fig.5. Evolutionary ladder in a Polish edition, illustrations by artist Andrzej Heidrich (he designed also advertising posters and Polish banknotes).
Fig.6. Not only ?living dinosaurs?? ? a German series (1990) celebrates with dinosaur-skeletons 100 years Museum for Natural History in Berlin.
Fig.7. The Great End?