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October 13, 2014

1297 SOUTH KOREA (North Gyeongsang) - Gyeongju Historic Areas (UNESCO WHS)

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Formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla (57 BC-935 AD), which ruled about two-thirds of the Korean Peninsula between the...

1296 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Waihi, the Heart of Gold

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Located in the Coromandel Peninsula , one of the great gold mining districts of the world, Waihi is a little settlement (4,503 inhab...

1295 MOZAMBIQUE - Inhambane, Land of Good People

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Located 470 km northeast of Maputo , Inhambane , Terra de Boa Gente (Land of Good People), one of the oldest settlements on Mozambique ...
October 12, 2014

1278 MALDIVES - Boduberu Music

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The most widely known form of indigenous music in Maldives , and also the most popular, especially in the Northern Atolls, is called bo...
October 11, 2014

1277 MALAYSIA (Penang) - Kapitan Keling Mosque in George Town

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Founded in 1786 on the north-east corner of Penang Island , by Captain Francis Light , a trader for the British East India Company , as...

1276 IVORY COAST - Le Plateau in Abidjan

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Located on the  Gulf of Guinea , between Liberia , and Guinea , Ivory Coast , known also as Côte d'Ivoire was a French colony un...

INDONESIA (Lesser Sunda) - Three genres of traditional dance in Bali (UNESCO ICH)

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Balinese dance is a very ancient dance tradition that is part of the religious and artistic expression among the Balinese people of Bali ...

0547, 1275 INDONESIA (Lesser Sunda) - Barong Dance - part of Three genres of traditional dance in Bali (UNESCO ICH)

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0547 Barong Dance (1) Posted on 10.03.2013, 11.10.2014 In Hinduism , dance is an accompaniment to the perpetual dissolving and refor...
October 9, 2014

0660, 0661, 1273 UZBEKISTAN (Bukhara) - Historic Centre of Bukhara (UNESCO WHS)

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0660 Bukhara - Minaret Kalyan and the main portal of Kalyan Mosque Posted on 30.05.2013, 09.10.2014 According to the Iranian epic p...
October 6, 2014

1239, 1271 UNITED STATES (New Mexico) - White Sands National Monument (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)

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Posted on 23.09.2014, and 06.10.2014 Located in  the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin , at about 25 km southwest of Alamogordo , at an e...
October 5, 2014

0199 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - Paton Bridge

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I have at least four reasons to consider this postcard a special one. The first is that the sender (many thanks, Tamila) is born in the...
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October 4, 2014

1268 PAKISTAN (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) - Kalash girls in Chitral

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Chitral was an independent monarchical state until 1895, then a semiautonomous state within the Indian Empire (until 1947), and even ...
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October 3, 2014

1266 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - Château des Milandes, Josephine Baker's nest

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The Château des Milandes is a small castle in the commune of  Castelnaud-la-Chapelle ( Dordogne ), built by Francois de Caumont ar...

1265 BELARUS - Blowing in horn

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1265 Belarusian blowing in horn Generally speaking, the traditional musical instruments emerged from very simple objects of life that...
October 2, 2014

1263 FRANCE (Réunion) - The map of the Réunion Island

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Located in the Indian Ocean , east of Madagascar , about 200km southwest of Mauritius , Réunion island is one of the overseas departme...
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1261, 1262 SWITZERLAND (Appenzell Innerrhoden) - Little herders

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Settlement of the Appenzell region (in the northeast of  Switzerland , entirely surrounded by the Canton of St. Gallen ) began alo...
October 1, 2014

0010, 1190, 1260 FINLAND - The map and the flag of the country

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Posted on 13.10.2011, 17.08.2014, and 01.10.2014 Bordered by Sweden , Norway , and Russia , Finland has a population of ...
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September 29, 2014

0245, 1259 BELARUS - The map and the flag of the country

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0245 Belarus map I have the conviction that Belarus and Ukraine broke away from Russia in 1990s for purely political reasons; eth...
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