How to Cook Chicken Tempura

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Yoshinori Ishii, executive chef at Japanese restaurant Umu in London, shows us how to cook tempura vegetables and seafood, including a useful trick for determining the temperature of hot oil.

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Female Silver Screen Celebrities on Postage Stamps

Consequent to my previous post on the Male Silver Scree Celebrities, this post of mine is quite logical to follow. The female silver screen celebrities have charmed the cinema goers all over the world. Some of these are celebrities whose names will always be remembered like Marilyn Munro, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn and even Madhu Bala of Indian silver screen.  

Herein under is a selection of commemorative stamps from around the world. No names have been given underneath the stamps as each face is a famous and familiar, besides the name given on each stamp .

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Fun of playing online poker - even for free

Poker is one of the most interesting, mind boggling and challenging games of rest of the many card games. I was first introduced to Poker when I played it online awhile ago and since then I take my time out to play a game or two as playing it online is much easier, simpler and exciting. However, poker in US is one of the most resorted to online games and a lot of people find it easier since there is a lot of choice for poker players in USA.

In fact online poker provides a wide variety of safe online poker rooms and players from US have thus a wide variety of choice to choose suiting their taste, pocket and level of expertise. Most of these sites are secure by applying good security safeguards for the players. Besides, these sites assist the players by offering a wide variety of poker deals, suiting their budget.

Mac poker UK is yet another facility that allows the players in UK to play Mac compatible online poker. It may be added here that all sites that are listed on line, also allow players to play free games, so it makes it much more fun while playing with someone on the other end even with empty pockets. Try these on line sites for fun, or even for serious hands as well. And one last thing: playing at a US poker room is completely legal and you do not break any law while playing Poker on line.

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Superb Art of Paper Relief Miniatures

Source: Funzug

Christina Lihan is a US based architect who has transformed some of the great architecture marvels into paper relief sculptures. Mounted in shadowboxes and ranging from two to six inches deep, she has created miniatures of some of the finest building of the world like the Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower.

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Postage stamps and postal history of Serbia

First stamp of Serbia 1866

Serbia issued its first stamp in 1866 and continued issuing its stamps till 120 when its postal system was merged with that of the former Austro-Hungarian territories. After the Nazi Germany established Nedić's Serbia in 1941 it issued its own stamps until 1944. Initially, Yugoslavian stamps were simply overprinted in German with the word Serbien. 

 Yugoslavia stamp with overprint Serbien 1941

Later regular issues were inscribed both Serbien and Србија (Serbia). 

Airmail stamp with Serbia overprint - 1942

A 1942 issue reprinted with "Bombardment of City of Nis" in 1943

From 1944 onward, Serbia was part of Yugoslavia. 

First Serbian Stamp issued in 2006 after independance

Upon the dissolution of the union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, Serbia began issuing its own stamps once more. The Post of Serbia issues the country's stamps.

Serbia issued a set of 18 stamps on the eve of FIFA World Cup Football held in South Africa 2010.

The stamp showed flags of all 32 countries that participated in the tournament.

The stamps above showed the national flags of South Africa and Serbia in the background

Postal History/First Serbian stamp courtesy: Wikipedia

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Postage Stamps of Male Celebrities of Silver Screen

The celebrities of the silver screen has always fascinated people wanting entertainment and fun. The film makers of Hollywood have a special place in introducing actors of highest repute, like Charlie Chaplin, Clarke Gable, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and many more. The acting skills and the charm they left on their fans has been acknowledged by various countries by issuing postage stamps commemorating these big names of the silver screen. The list may also include Ronald Reagan, who after his acting stint in Hollywood, joined politics and became the US president.

Herein under is a selection of commemorative stamps from around the world. All these stamps appear in alphabetical order. No names however been written as each face is a famous and familiar face for most of the movie goers around the world.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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