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2248 FRANCE ( Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie) - Picardy Coast
The Picardy Coast stretches 60 km from the mouth of the Bresle in the south to where the Authie flows into the sea in the north, and set between them, the estuary of the Somme River or Bay of Somme....
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0355, 2249 RUSSIA - Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia
0355 - Engagement portrait of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (1894)Posted on 09.10.2012, 29.01.2016Even though it's been almost a century since then, the dramatic fate of the last tsar of...
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2250 UNITED STATES (Alabama) - The Muscogee (Creek)
2250 - Calvin W. McGhee (1903-1970), Chief of the Poarch Band of Creek IndiansThe Muscogee, also known as the Creek, are a Native American people traditionally from the southeastern woodlands, who live...
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2251-2253 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) -...
2251 - Dauphiné RegionThe Dauphiné is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère and Drôme, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and...
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2254 ROMANIA (Olt) - Independency Monument in Corabia
In 1877, when Romania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire, the town of Corabia had only 6 years since the foundation and was only a small port on the Danube. In order that the...
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2255 UNITED STATES (Florida) - Dames Point Bridge
The Dames Point Bridge (officially the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, built between 1985 and 1989. The main span is 396.2m, and is...
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2256 PANAMA - Panama Canal map
People have dreamed since the 16th century to pass with ships from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean without traveled around South America, but this was not possible until 1914, when the Panama Canal...
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2257 GUINEA (Kankan) - The Great Mosque in Kankan
Founded by the Mandinka people in the 17th century on the Milo River in eastern Guinea, Kankan became an important trading centre, particularly for kola nuts, and the capital of the Baté Empire. In...
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0706, 0978, 1018, 2258 UNITED STATES (California) - San Francisco cable car...
0706 San Francisco cable car system - Powell-Hyde Line - Car no. 9Posted on 28.06.2013, 21.01.2014, 01.03.2014, 01.02.2016It is said that there is no better way to experience the hills and views of San...
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0805, 1659, 1660, 2169, 2258 UNITED STATES (Arizona / Utah / New Mexico) -...
0805 An old Navajo woman and his granddaughterPosted on 31.08.2013, 12.06.2015, 30.12.2015, 01.02.2016The Navajo are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States, with more then 300,000...
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2259 ANTARCTICA - Polar Star on duty in Antarctic waters
Polar Star (WAGB-10) is a United States Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker commissioned in 1976 and built, along with her sister ship, Polar Sea (WAGB-11), in Seattle (Washington), which is also its...
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2260 MEXICO (Veracruz) - Casa de Cortés in La Antigua
Located just 20km north of Veracruz, the small town La Antigua reveals little of its past identity with its languid grid of sleepy, cobbled streets and moss-covered ruins. Regarded (wrongly) as the...
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2261 BAHRAIN - A wedding procession of men
InBahrain, the population is mostly Muslim (both Sunni and Shia), so country's culture is similar to that of its Arab neighbours in the Persian Gulf region, and the traditions related to the wedding...
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2262 ROMANIA - All the best from Bucharest!
Postcrossing community from Romania isn't among the largest, but it is certainly one of the most active. Thanks to a small group of enthusiasts, true ambassadors of this idea which has become...
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2263 UNITED STATES (Massachusetts) - Old South Meeting House in Boston
Built in 1729, the Old South Meeting House has been an important gathering place for locals for nearly three centuries. Renowned for the protest meetings held here before the American Revolution when...
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2264 BELGIUM - Moules-frites and beer
Belgian cuisine is widely varied with significant regional variations while also reflecting the cuisines of neighbouring France, Germany and the Netherlands. It is sometimes said that Belgian food is...
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2265 SENEGAL - Serer and Fula women in Saloum
Located north of the Gambia and south of the Petite Côte, Sine-Saloum is a region in which were for hundreds of years the kingdoms of Saloum and Sine, the last pre-colonial kingdoms of Senegambia that...
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2266 ROMANIA (Tulcea) - Carol street in Tulcea at the beginning of the 20th...
Founded in the 7th century BC under the name of Aegyssus, the city of Tulcea, laid out on seven hills like Rome, has been, since ancient times, an important harbor on Danube River, not far from its...
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1475, 2267 UNITED STATES (Indiana) - Indiana map
1475 Indiana map (1)Posted on 02.03.2015, 06.02.2016Bordered 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...
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1222-1224, 1231-1233, 2268-2271 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Historic Town of...
1222 Cruise ship entering through Town Cut in St. George’s HarbourPosted on 15.09.2014, 20.09.2014, 06.02.2016St. George's(formally, the Town of St George), located on the island of the same name, is...
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