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1519 BELARUS (Minsk City) - National Library of Belarus
The National Library of Belarus was founded on 15 September 1922, and houses the largest collection of Belarusian printed materials and the third largest collection of books in Russian behind the...
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1520 RUSSIA - Fight with the bear
Custom to arrange fighting of a man with a bear was known in medieval Russia as a "bear fun". Such funs were represented on frescos of the Kiev-Sofia cathedral (1037). In old manuscript by Daniil...
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1521 CHINA (Guangxi) - Jinxiu Valley of Lushan Mountain
Opened as a tourist attraction in the year 1980, Jinxiu Valley is famous for its natural stone overbridge, strange stones, peaks, streams as well as the rich ecosystems, especially the wide varieties...
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1522 DOMINICA - Mas Domnik
Dominica draws on a mix of cultures: Names of French places appear as often as English. African language, foods and customs often mingle with European traditions as part of the island's Creole culture....
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1523 BURKINA FASO - Peaks of Sindou
Peaks of Sindou (Les Pics de Sindou in French) are a spectacular natural geological formation of sandstone, where nature has really outdone herself. It is incredible rocky chains that have formed due...
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1121, 1524 SURINAME - Arawak people
Surinamese beauty in amerindian cultural clothingPosted on 27.06.2014, 12.04.2015According to the 2012 census, only 3.7% of the population of Suriname are of indigenous ancestry, whitch means about...
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1525 COOK ISLANDS - Te Rua Manga, on Rarotonga
With a population of 10,572, Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand. Captain John Dibbs, master of...
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1526 JAPAN (Kansai) - Gagaku (UNESCO ICH)
In this postcard is a Bugaku dance performance (accompanied by a Gagaku orchestra) at Ise Jingū (Ise Shrine), probably during the Spring Kagura Festival. Gagaku (lit. "elegant music") is the oldest of...
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1528 UNITED STATES - A pin-up by Harry Ekman
Even if this postcard was printed in Russia in 2014, and the signature of the author was erased, it is a reproduction of a pin-up by Harry Ekman (1923-1999), a significant American graphic artist, born...
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0255, 1529 RUSSIA - Matryoshka
Three Matryoshkas from a series containing 30 pieces with the pictures illustrating Ruslan and LudmilaIn 2001 was inaugurated, just in the Moscow's center, in the building of Russian Folk Arts Fund,...
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1530 BELARUS - Belarusian traditional ornaments
Textile is one of the most ancient art forms in Belarus, and the geometric ornaments are so important in this country, that are present on its national flag. It was taken from a hand towel embroidered...
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1531 INDONESIA (Jakarta) - National Monument in Jakarta
First of all, I must thank for this wonderful maxicard to Barbel Plinke, but also all those who signed on it. The maxicard was edited with the ocasion of a meet-up of the Indonesian postcrossers (which...
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1532 NAGORNO-KARABAKH - Gandzasar monastery
Laid in 1216 by the prince of Khachen, Hasan Jalal Vahtangian, Gandzasar Monastery stands atop of the mount with the same name, actually a large green hill that rises above the historical town of Vank,...
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1533 KAZAKHSTAN - Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly...
Set around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid Chu-Ili mountains, Tamgaly (which in Kazakh means "painted or marked place") is a remarkable concentration of some 5,000 petroglyphs dating from...
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1534 UNITED KINGDOM (British Indian Ocean Territory) - Little green heron
The biodiversity of the BIOT is very rich, particularly in the marine environment which contains some of the world's healthiest coral reefs, the world's largest coral atoll (the Great Chagos Bank) and...
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0373, 0448, 0454, 0818, 1535 HUNGARY (Budapest) - Budapest, including the...
0373 Budapest - Hungarian Parliament Building 1The history of what will became Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became, in the beginning of the Christian era, the...
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1536 POLAND (Subcarpathian) - Dubiecko Castle
Dubiecko is a village located at 36km southeast of Rzeszów, in which is situated the castle with the same name, in nowadays became hotel. The building was the birthplace of Stanislaw Stadnicki...
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1537 NAMIBIA - Ju/'hoansi bushmen in Eastern Bushmanland
Khoisan is a unifying name for two groups of peoples of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region. Culturally, they are...
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1432, 1538 SPAIN (Extremadura) - Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida (UNESCO WHS)
1432 Mérida (Emerita Augusta) - Roman amphitheatre and theatrePosted on 31.01.2015, 25.04.2015The Roman colony of Emerita Augusta (present day Mérida) was founded in 25 BC by Augustus, to resettle...
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