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Showing posts with label Mills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mills. Show all posts
April 5, 2020

3464 BARBADOS - Morgan Lewis Windmill

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3464 Morgan Lewis Windmill in Saint Andrew Located in the northern parish of St. Andrew overlooking the eastern coastline of the isl...
January 3, 2020

0555-0557, 3319, 3327 BULGARIA (Burgas) - Ancient City of Nessebar (UNESCO WHS)

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3319 The Ancient City of Nessebar Posted on 15.03.2013, 31.12.2019, 03.01.2020 For miles, the road from Varna to Nessebar creeps...
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February 10, 2017

2943 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - A tower mill in Provence

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A tower mill is a type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden "cap" or roof, whic...
January 13, 2017

2925 RUSSIA (Pskov Oblast) - The Old Mill in Mikhailovskoye

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Located in the heart of the Pskov Oblast , on the spurs of the Valdai Hills , not far from Pskov and the border of Latvia , the State ...
October 12, 2016

1925, 2815 GREECE (South Aegean) - Mykonos

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1925 Mykonos - Kato Mili in Chora Posted on 29.09.2015, 12.10.2016 Nicknamed The Island of the Winds, Mykonos is one of the Cyclade...
August 21, 2016

2413, 2700 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / South Holland) - A hollow post mill in Kaag

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2413 A hollow post mill in Kaag Posted on 27.03.2016, 21.08.2016 The post mill is probably the earliest type of European windmill, ...
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March 4, 2016

2345 ESTONIA - The map of the country

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Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland , to the west by the B...
February 11, 2016

2282 RUSSIA (Vologda Oblast) - A log windmill in 1909

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A major component of the Volga-Baltic Waterway (formerly called the Mariinsk Canal System), linking Saint Petersburg (therefore the B...
December 12, 2015

2116 UNITED STATES (California) - The Old Mill in Busch Gardens, Pasadena

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In nowadays, Busch Gardens is the name of two amusement parks, located in Tampa, Florida , and in  Williamsburg, Virginia . There were...
December 1, 2015

2092 Struve Geodetic Arc (UNESCO WHS)

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The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea , through ten coun...
August 15, 2015

1828 NETHERLANDS (Aruba) - The Old Dutch Windmill

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1828 The Old Dutch Windmill Located near the Palm Beach , right where J.E. Irausquin Blvd makes a jug handle turn near the Aruba Butt...
July 17, 2015

1747 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / South Holland) - Windmills of Leidschendam

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Located in the western Netherlands , on the banks of the canal Vliet , near the historic city of Leiden , Leidschendam is now part of ...
July 8, 2012

0272 PORTUGAL (Setúbal) - A windmill with jib sail in Palmela

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So far I received postcards with windmills only from the countries with harsh winters ( Netherlands and Finland ), which have the sail...
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June 19, 2012

0227 & 0254 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / South Holland) - Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout (UNESCO WHS)

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Posted on 28.05.2012 The windmill in the picture is a variant of smock mill (I wrote here about this type of mill), namely grondzeil...
April 29, 2012

0190 FINLAND - An unidentified smock mill

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Yes, after all appearances, what is seen in this postcard is a smock mill with what might be called a boat shaped cap, i.e. (according ...
November 13, 2011

0037 NETHERLANDS - A mill in the moonlight

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A windmill that has close its sails like a butterfly the wings and went to sleep, guarded by the shiny penny of the full moon and by th...
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October 29, 2011

0024 SPAIN (Murcia) - The water wheel of Alcantarilla

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0024 The water wheel of Alcantarilla Between the 9th and 12th centuries the Arabs (or Moors , as the european have named the populati...