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1454-1456 UNITED STATES (New York) - Fire Island Lighthouse
The Fire Island Lighthouse is a visible landmark located on the Great South Bay, actually a lagoon situated between Long Island and Fire Island. It is part of the Fire Island Light Station which...
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1457 JAPAN (Chūbu) - Japanese macaques in the hot springs of Jigokudani...
The largely temperate Japan has its own endemic species of monkey, which comes as a surprise to those who associates these mammals with tropical and sub-tropical areas. In fact, these monkeys are...
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1458 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA (Antigua) - Long Bay Beach
The shorelines of Antigua, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda, are greatly indented, with beaches, lagoons, and natural harbours, rimmed by reefs and shoals. It is said to have 365...
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1459 CAPE VERDE (Boa Vista) - Chave Beach
Part of the Barlavento islands (literally, the Windward), the northern island group of Cape Verde archipelago, Boa Vista (Portuguese meaning "good view") is known for marine turtles and traditional...
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1460 UKRAINE - Old Hutsul woman
Hutsuls are an ethno-cultural group, or rather an ethnic subgroup, who for centuries have inhabited the Carpathian mountains, mainly in Ukraine (Trans-Carpathia and Pokuttya) and in the northern...
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1461 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Sweetheart Rock in Lānaʻi
Lānaʻi, also known as Pineapple Island because of its past as an pineapple plantation, is the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. Since 2012, it is 98% owned by Larry Ellison...
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1462 NETHERLANDS (Curaçao) - Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and...
Formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad is the capital city of Curaçao, a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and part of the Dutch Caribbean. It is a typical port town, but...
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1463 ROMANIA (Braşov) - The city of Braşov presented in the 1960s style
Euphemistically speaking, my knowledge regarding visual arts are very sketchy, but however I have, like any man, a certain visual memory, especially in terms of things I like. As a result, it wasn't...
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1464 FRANCE (Burgundy) - House of Châteauneuf
The Château de Châteauneuf-en-Auxois is a 15th-century fortress located at 43km from Dijon, a vast stone building, 75m in length and 35m broad, situated on a rocky outcrop 475m above the surrounding...
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1465 LESOTHO - Thaba Putsoa Range Malealea
It can be said that this kind of mountainous landscape shown in the postcard is specific for Lesotho, the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000m in elevation (over 80% of...
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1466 POLAND (Silesia) - Rozbarsko-Bytomski folk costume
Silesians are the inhabitants of Silesia, a region of Central Europe, along the Odra river, now located mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. They are of Slavic descent,...
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1467 JAPAN (Shikoku) - Koi in Ritsurin Garden
In Japanese culture, garden-making is a high art, equal to the arts of calligraphy and ink painting. Gardens are considered three-dimensional textbooks of Daoism and Zen Buddhism, and that's why they...
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1468 PHILIPPINES (Central Visayas) - Fort San Pedro in Cebu
Front entrance of Fuerte de San PedroBuilt in 1565 in the pier area of the Cebu City by Spanish and indigenous Cebuano labourers under the command of conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi, Fuerte de San...
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1469 ROMANIA (Brașov) - A Transylvanian Saxon bride of Meșendorf
The Transylvanian Saxons is the oldest and the numerous group of German ethnicity who live in Transylvania. In the 12th century they followed the call of King Geza II, which promoted the colonization...
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1470 CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE - An oilpainting postcard
If the first postcard received from Republic of the Congo was a sand painting one, the second one is an oil painting one. Anyway, I can say that in the last years I didn't see any "real" postcard from...
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1471 SPAIN (Canary Islands) - Playa de las Américas in Tenerife
Playa de las Américas is a purpose-built holiday resort in the southern and southern-west part of the Municipality of Arona, in the west of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. It was built in the...
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1022, 1472 GUYANA - The map and the flag of the country
1472 - Guyana's map and national symbolsPosted on 04.03.2014 and 28.02.2015According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the name "Guyana" comes from an Amerindian word meaning "land of waters". Anyway,...
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1473 AERICAN EMPIRE - The flag of the micronation
The Aerican Empire (also known as Aerica) is a micronation which has no sovereign territory of its own and has never been recognized by any other sovereign state as existing. The name is a pun on the...
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1474 UNITED STATES (Tennessee / North Carolina) - Great Smoky Mountains...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States, straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of...
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1475 UNITED STATES (Indiana) - The map of the State of Indiana
Bordered on the north by Michigan, on the east by Ohio, on the west by Illinois, on the northwest by Lake Michigan and on the south by Kentucky (through the Ohio River), Indiana (Indian Land) is broken...
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