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How a “Sultry” Statue of Liberty Cost the U.S. Post Office More Than $3.5 Million

 orever stamps may set you back 50 cents apiece these days, but that's nothing compared to what one particular stamp will cost the United States Postal Service (USPS). Tom McKay at Gizmodo reports that a judge has ordered the agency to pay a sculptor more than $3.5 million after it failed to secure his permission or pay him royalties for putting his replica Statue of Liberty on a stamp. www.google.com www.wikipedia.org www.yahoo.com www.youtube.com The mix-up happened in 2010, when the USPS printed a Forever stamp featuring a close-up of the Statue of Liberty’s face from Getty Images' stock photo collection. After 3.5 billion of the stamps were issued, a collector noticed that statue, which arrived in the New York Harbor 133 years ago this June, looked a little different than how he remembered, and he alerted the USPS that it had made a mistake. https://www.rallypoint.com/shared-links/nadra-divorce-certificate-in-pakistan-nazia-law-associates--48 https://www.diveboard.com/nanee

A Research Ship Is Hunting Meteorite Fragments Off the Coast of Washington

 n March 7, the largest meteor to fall on the United States in many years hurtled into the atmosphere along the Pacific Coast, exploding in a fireball and raining two tons of material over NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, 16 miles off the coast of Washington State. Now, reports Sandi Doughton at The Seattle Times, researchers are trying to recover bits of the meteorite, and if successful, it will be the first time a chunk of space rock has been retrieved from the ocean floor. www.google.com www.wikipedia.org www.yahoo.com www.youtube.com The search effort is the brainchild of Marc Fries, NASA curator of cosmic dust, who has set up many meteorite hunts in the past. Even though very few people witnessed the fall of the meteorite, Fries was able to pinpoint its trajectory using weather radar. Based on the signals it produced, he estimates the rock was the size of a golf cart before it broke into chunks—including one ten-pounder the size of a brick—and spread over a .38-squa