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0615, 0685, 1251 ITALY (Sicily) - Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto...
0615 (posted on 25.04.2013) - RAGUSACan be said that Val di Noto (Province of Noto), a area located in south-eastern Sicily, owes its notoriety to a disaster, the enormous earthquake of 1693. After...
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1252 TUNISIA - Amphitheatre of El Jem (UNESCO WHS)
El Jem, or El Djem, was built by the Romans on a former Punic settlement, under the name Thysdrus. In a less arid climate than today's, Thysdrus, which became part of the Roman province of Byzacena,...
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1174-1179, 1253-1256 UNITED NATIONS - UN at a glance
Posted on 12.08.2014, and 28.09.2014The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945, after the WWII, to prevent another such conflict, actually a replacement...
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1257, 1258 ARUBA - Divi-Divi Trees on Eagle Beach
Mostly flat, with only a few hills, and without inland water, Aruba isn't the stereotypical tropical island of lush, steamy forests and constant rains. Its best-known geographical feature is its...
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0245, 1259 BELARUS - The map and the flag of the country
Posted on 11.06.2012, 29.09.2014I have the conviction that Belarus and Ukraine broke away from Russia in 1990s for purely political reasons; ethnic and linguistic differences between the three being...
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0010, 1190, 1260 FINLAND - The map and the flag of the country
Posted on 13.10.2011, 17.08.2014, and 01.10.2014Bordered by Sweden, Norway, and Russia, Finland has a population of around 5.5 million, with the majority concentrated in its southern regions. Lying...
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1261, 1262 SWITZERLAND (Appenzell Innerrhoden) - Little herders
Settlement of the Appenzell region (in the northeast of Switzerland, entirely surrounded by the Canton of St. Gallen) began along the River Glatt during the 7th century. Herisau was first mentioned in...
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1263 RÉUNION - The map of the island
Located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200km southwest of Mauritius, Réunion island is one of the overseas departments of France. Similar to the Island of Hawaiʻi, as both are located...
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1264 GUERNSEY (Alderney) - Moorings alongside the breakwater at Braye Harbour
Alderney, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, is the most northerly of the Channel Islands, located at around 16km to the west of La Hague (Normandy, France), and 32km to the north-east of Guernsey. It...
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1265 BELARUS - Blowing in horn
Generally speaking, the traditional musical instruments emerged from very simple objects of life that were used to produce sounds and developed into rather complicated mechanisms. One should not forget...
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1266 FRANCE (Dordogne) - Château des Milandes, Josephine Baker's nest
The Château des Milandes is a small castle in the commune of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle (Dordogne), built by Francois de Caumont around 1489 for his young wife, who found medieval castle of Château de...
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1267 ITALY (Sicily) - Cathedral-Basilica of Cefalù
Located on the northern coast of Sicily, Cefalù deserves noted mainly for its Cathedral, begun in 1131, in a style of Norman architecture, which would be more accurately called Sicilian Romanesque....
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1268 PAKISTAN (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) - Kalash girls in Chitral
Chitral was an independent monarchical state until 1895, then a semiautonomous state within the Indian Empire (until 1947), and even within Pakistan, until 1969, when became a district of Pakistan, the...
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1269 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur
Located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in Paris, The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the defeat of France in...
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1270 THAILAND - Classical Dancers
The present Thai classical dance (natasin) probably developed during the Ayutthaya period (1350-1767), although very little is known about the process. The possible origins of Thai dance may be found...
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0199 UKRAINE (City of Kiev) - Paton Bridge
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 same day as me, so she is the sixth added to my special topic,...
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1239, 1271 UNITED STATES (New Mexico) - White Sands National Monument (UNESCO...
Posted on 23.09.2014, and 06.10.2014Located in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin, at about 25 km southwest of Alamogordo, at an elevation of 1,291m, White Sands National Monument comprises the...
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1125, 1272 UNITED STATES (Utah) - The map and flag of State of Utah
Posted on 04.07.2014, 08.10.2014Bordered by Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada (and touching a corner of New Mexico), Utah, one of the Four Corners states, is well known as the most...
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0660, 0661, 1273 UZBEKISTAN (Bukhara) - Historic Centre of Bukhara (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 30.05.2013, 09.10.2014According to the Iranian epic poem Shahnameh, it was founded by King Siavash, son of Shah Kai Kavoos, one of the mythical Iranian kings. Officially, it was founded in...
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0547, 1275 INDONESIA (Lesser Sunda Islands) - Barong Dance
Posted on 10.03.2013, 11.10.2014In Hinduism, dance is an accompaniment to the perpetual dissolving and reforming of the world. In the isle of Bali there are various categories of dance, the most known...
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