Hermes (Greek stamp) (Vienna emission) . All these issues have been overprinted in many cases up to 1920: Value, colour and type of the sixteen stamps of common usage set, printed in "taille douce" in 1911 : General Philately: General Philately - Literature: Large Hermes Head - Traditional Philately: Large Hermes Head - Postal History: Hermes (Greek stamp) The Greek god Hermes, messenger of the Gods in the Greek mythology, is the representation chosen, in 1860, by the Kingdom of Greece to illustrate its first postal stamps. The first type, the "large Hermes head", was issued in October 1861, and stayed in circulation
The Council of the Gods The Council of the Gods Der Rat der Götter ("The Council of the Gods") is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1950. In the early 1930s, Dr. Scholz is a chemist working for IG Farben. While he develops new types of rocket fuel and a gas which he believes to be a pesticide, his corporate superiors support Adolf Hitler in his quest to dominate Germany, and subsequently, the whole of Europe. Director General Mauch and his fellow managers, who jokingly call themselves 'the council of the gods', are cleverly using the Second World