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Showing posts with label Paintings and not only. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paintings and not only. Show all posts
March 3, 2020

3446 RUSSIA (Saint Petersburg) - Postcrossing Meetup, Saint Petersburg, 19 February 2020

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This postcard was made on the occasion of the postcrossing meeting that took place on February 19, 2020 in Saint Petersburg . The o...
March 1, 2020

3444 UNITED STATES (California) - Big Sur Coast Highway

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Big Sur Coast Highway is a section of California State Route 1 that is widely considered to be one of the most scenic driving routes i...
February 21, 2020

3429 ROMANIA - The Dacians

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The Dacians were a Thracian people who were the ancient inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia , located in the area near the Ca...
January 25, 2020

3392 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / North Holland) - The Bulldog Coffeeshop in Amsterdam

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The story of The Bulldog starts in 1975, when Henk de Vries, who had started selling marijuana in 1970 at the Kralingen Music Festival...
January 22, 2020

3379 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Queen Liliuokalani

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    If Kamehameha The Great ( c.  1758? - 1819) was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii , Liliuokalani was the last one, rulin...
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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December 20, 2019

3295 ROMANIA - Postcrossing Meetup, Bucharest, 5 May 2018

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3295 The fifth postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (5/12) - "The passage of the Romanian ...
December 6, 2019

3286 INDONESIA - Gibran Rakabuming Raka and Selvi Ananda at their wedding

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Mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012, and the Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014, Joko Widodo (born Mulyono, 21 June 1961) becam...
January 8, 2018

3238 LATVIA (Riga) - Riga

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With 639,630 inhabitants (2016), Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states , home to one third of Latvia 's population and on...
January 6, 2018

0671, 3235 RUSSIA (Moscow) - The towers of Moscow Kremlin - part of Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (UNESCO WHS)

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0671 Spasskaya Tower Posted on 07.06.2013, 06.01.2018 The Spasskaya Tower is the main tower with a through-passage on the eastern w...
December 30, 2017

3229 ROMANIA - George I Rákóczi (1593-1648)

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George I Rákóczi (8 June 1593, Szerencs - 11 October 1648) was Prince of Transylvania from 1630 until his death in 1648. He was the...
December 1, 2017

3210 VIETNAM (Red River Delta) - Vietnam Fine Arts Museum

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3210 Vietnam Fine Arts Museum - Two Girls and a Child, by Tô Ngọc Vân Just across the street from the Temple of Literature , Vietnam ...
November 8, 2017

3192 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Mary Rose

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Launched in 1511, during the reign of King Henry VIII , the Mary Rose was named after the King's younger sister, Mary Tudor (1496...
August 19, 2017

3130 ROMANIA (Timiş) - Fabric Synagogue in Timişoara

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The Fabric New Synagogue in Timişoara is a Neologue synagogue inaugurated in 1899, when Timişoara (Temesvar) was a part of Transylva...
August 4, 2017

3116 POLAND (Mazovia) - Warsaw between 1767 and 1779 in the paintings of Canaletto

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In 1569 was established the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (a bi-confederation of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch, wh...
June 16, 2017

3088 ROMANIA - Michael the Brave (1558-1601)

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Michael the Brave (1558, Târgul de Floci - August 9, 1601, Câmpia Turzii ) was the Prince of Wallachia (1593-1601), Prince of Moldav...
June 4, 2017

3076 ROMANIA - Stephen the Great (1438/1439-1504)

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    Stephen III (1438-1439, Borzeşti - July 2, 1504, Suceava), known as Stephen the Great , was the voivode (or prince) of Moldavia b...
December 20, 2016

1639, 2911 ESTONIA (Pärnu) - Kihnu cultural space (UNESCO ICH)

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1639 Posted on 08.06.2015, 20.12.2016 Lying off Estonia 's Baltic coast, the small islands of Kihnu and Manija are home to a c...

2910 UNITED STATES - Grandfather Earth

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" Native Americans have always believed that the earth beneath their feet was sacred. Every river, canyon and forest was evidence...