WORLD, COME TO MY HOME!

This is the first Soviet postcard received by me. Yes, Soviet, because it was issued in 1981, so with a year before Brezhnev's deat...

In Prague, on the corner of the embankment Rasinovo nabrezi and the street Resslova, was until WWII a house in the Neo-renaissance style,...

0197 The cathedral of Saint Anthony of Padua Pastavy is located on the bank of the river Myadelka, 250km away from Vitebsk , on the ...

The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton , a fishing village from the south coast of Great Britain, which b...

The 521.000 Taiwanese aborigines constitutes now only 2% of the island population, although they were the first who colonized it, with ...

"When, by chance, you have a heart and a shirt, you have to sell the shirt to see the surroundings of Lake Maggiore..." wr...

After the historic trams in Adelaide and Melbourne , is the turn of the electric train in Perth (how modern is possible) to be in the ...

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 ...

On 15 November 1505, few ships under the command of Don Lourenço de Almeida , deviated on their way to the Maldive Islands , sought san...

If I visit Novosibirsk, I wouldn't rush to see neither the colossal sculpture of Lenin or State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, ...

0186 Geirangerfjord Located in the southwestern part of the county of Møre og Romsdal , at about 100km from the town of Ålesund , the...

Until late in the modern era, the fairs were the most important means of trade, especially in rural areas, but also an occasion for ent...

In 1985, a KH22 American spy satellite, mandated by President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative to stealthily drifted above southea...

Sagrada Família , on its full name Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family...

On 15 April 1912 the passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden v...

"Hey ... you know what day is today? April 20, ie 4/20, ie look here . Happy Birthday!" wrote on facebook a friend who adopte...

"But what is your affair in Elsinore?" asks Hamlet in the first act of the play. "Without any affair, my lord, I just r...

The fourth piece of the puzzle that I try to create here, having Japan as subject (after Shinto theatrical dance , A-Bomb Dome from Hir...

American cities names (the toponyms in general actually) are divided into three categories: that remind of the founders places of origin, t...

Baghdad is rich not only in wonderful buildings, but also in monuments. Many of the open-air sculptures are dedicated to the Iraqi peo...