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0976 GERMANY (Hesse) - A Bembel of Apfelwein, please, and Handkäse mit Musik!
Cider or cyder (named also "apple wine" in some regions) is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from fruit juice, traditionally apple juice, which varies in alcohol content from 1.2% ABV to 8.5% or...
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0977 MOROCCO (Souss-Massa-Drâa) - Aït Larbi Kasbah on Dadès River valley
A kasbah is a type of fortress (citadel) in the Islamic cities, built by local leaders to live in it, and as defense when the city was under attack. On the valley of Dadès River, which rises in the...
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0706, 0978 UNITED STATES (California) - San Francisco cable car system
Posted on 28.06.2013, completed on 21.01.2014It is said that there is no better way to experience the hills and views of San Francisco than aboard one of the city’s famous open-air cable cars, the...
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0710, 0979-0984 UNITED STATES (Pennsylvania) - Life in Amish Country
Posted on 30.06.2013, completed on 23.01.2014"Strolling along a rural road and admiring the flower, this Amish family is the sum total of all who went before. The Amish work with nature, not against...
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0985, 0986 SPAIN (Andalusia) - Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada...
Although the area was inhabited from at least the 8th century B.C., the actual founding of present day Granada, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers (the Beiro,...
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0029, 0987 INDIA (Tamil Nadu) - Great Living Chola Temples - Brihadisvara...
Posted on 06.11.2011, and completed on 24.01.2014In both postcards is Brihadisvara temple, also known as Rajarajeswaram or Peruvudaiyar Kovil, located in Thanjavur (formerly Tanjore) in state of Tamil...
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0988 SPAIN (Andalusia) - The map of Andalusia
Even if Spain is a highly decentralized state, being composed, in terms of administrative, by 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities, is, in accordance with the constitution of 1978, a...
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0989 MOROCCO - Two women, two colours, the same hayek
The Qur'an instructs both Muslim men and women to be modest. According to the Encyclopedia of Islam and Muslim World, this modesty concerns to gaze, gait, garments, and genitalia. The consequence is...
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0990-0995 UNITED STATES (New York) - The bridges in New York City
Brooklyn Bridge & Downtown ManhattanNew York City is home to over 2,000 bridges and tunnels, some of which were premieres or set records. For example the Holland Tunnel was the world's first...
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0996 FRANCE (Aquitaine) - Bordeaux, Port of the Moon (UNESCO WHS)
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River, in southwestern France, known mainly as the world's wine industry capital. At first a Celtic settlement, it came under Roman rule around 60 BC, being...
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0997 INDIA - Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Indian Nation
In 1869, when was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, had passed 11 years since the British Crown had taken over the direct rule of British Raj (comprising at that time almost all present-day India,...
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0998 GERMANY (Bavaria) - Freight locomotive 86 260 in 1968 at Plattling depot
The DRG Class 86 was a standard goods train tank locomotive with the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) (German Imperial Railway Company), intended for duties on branch lines. They were of 2-8-2...
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0999 INDONESIA (Java) - Being the owner of a cock makes him proud
The truth is that the cock from the postcard is a really beautiful one. At first I believe that is a fighting cock, especially that cockfighting is a very old tradition in Balinese Hinduism, but then I...
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0891-0892, 0911-0912, 0943 & 1000 UNITED STATES (Arizona) - Grand Canyon...
Posted on 07.12.2013, 20.12.2013, 06.01.2014, and 31.01.2014The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge carved out by the Colorado River (nearly 1,500m deep, 445.8km long), which is often...
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1001 RUSSIA - Lenin
If Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most luminous personalities of the 20th century, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was one of the darkest. Born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov to a middle-class family in...
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1002 SPAIN (Andalusia) - La Alcazaba in Málaga
Located on the Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) of the Mediterranean, at about 100 km east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about 130 km north of Africa, Málaga enjoys a subtropical-mediterranean climate...
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1003 NETHERLANDS - Tulip fields & cheese girl
As wrote Wilma, this is, obviously, a touristic postcard, following three clichés about Netherlands: the tulips, the cheese and the Dutch bonnet. But it fully attains its purpose, because the image is...
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0092, 0171, 0534, 1004-1005 CAMBODIA (Siem Reap) - Angkor (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 06.01.2012, 14.04.2012, 02.03.2013 and 16.02.2014Subjected to the Indian influences, passed through filters Thai or Lao, for more than 1,000 years, the Khmer have created firstly kingdoms of...
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1006 BAHRAIN - Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy (UNESCO WHS)
Located on the island with the same name, Muharraq (literary "burned down" in Arabic) has long been a centre of religiosity, and even the capital of Bahrain until 1923, when it was replaced by Manama....
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1007-1008 INDONESIA (Java) - The Olden Days Indonesia
"The Olden Days Indonesia" is a series comprising wonderful reproductions of postcards issued at the beginning of the 20th century. The couple shown in the first of these was immortalized, undoubtedly,...
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