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Prince Edward Island Map

Postcard from Canada Monday Maps

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Sunday Stamps: Marine Life

..is the theme for today’s Sunday Stamps Singapore – 2020 Black Oranda. An oranda is a breed of goldfish characterized by a prominent bubble-like “hood” on the head. The headgrowth or hood may be a prominent growth on the top of the head or may encase the entire face except the mouth. Singapore – 2020 Butterfly Tail. The Butterfly telescope goldfish is a variant of telescope goldfish that is…

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Pocket Watches

Postcard from Finland Sunday Sundries

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Lord of the Rings

Postcard from New Zealand 20th Anniversary. – Attack of the Warg Riders The stamp: sARTurday

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***Bird Stamps

Japan – 2022 Letter Writing Day – Birds Japan – 2015 Japanese Crested Ibis Japan – 2021 Letter Writing Day Japan – 1992 Spotbill Duck China – 2014 Birds of Prey: Hawk of the Gentiles Finland – 2017 Long-tailed duck (clangula hyemalis) Finland = 2027 Velvet Scoter (melanitta fusca) Poland – 2023 Polish Post Russia – 2018 Se-tenant: Green Woodpecker – Great Spotted Woodpecker Niger – 1985…

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Venice

Postcard from Italy Bridge of Sighs Thursday Take Me To…

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Gray Wolves

Postcard from Germany Friday Flora and Fauna

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Norfolk, Virginia

Postcard from USA This postcard was created by me, with photos I captured. It’s available for sale!

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Owl

Postcard from USA This is a postcard featuring one of my colored pencils drawing. It is for sale 😊

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Sannen-Zaka Slope

Postcard from Japan. Sannenzaka, or Sannen-zaka, is a stone-paved pedestrian road and tourist attraction in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The road is lined with traditional buildings and shops Thursday Take me To…

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Thursday postcard Hunt: cable cars, gondolas

“Cable cars, gondolas”” is this week’s theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt. No luck finding cable cars or “air” gondolas: but here is a “water” gondola …

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Time

Postcard from USA Photo by Elliott Erwitt Wednesday Who

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Notable Humans Stamps

USA – 1968 Walt Disney USA – 2023 Chief Standing Bear USA – 1984 Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro, but spent the early part of his career making comedies. Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Luxembourg – 2006 Grand Duke…

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Women Stamps 1

Great Britain – 1994 Queen Elizabeth II Austria 2020 Austrian Inventions Frequency Hopping Process. “Frequency hopping” was an ingenious way of switching between radio frequencies in order to avoid a signal being jammed. It was developed by Hedy Lamarr with the American composer George Antheil as a “secret communications system”.Armed with equipment gifted to her by fellow innovator (and…

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Dewa Shrine

Postcard from Japan. Subordinate Shrine of Dewa Shrine in Tsuruoka City. It enshrines three deities: Mt. Hassan, Mt, Haguro. and Mt. Yudono. Tuesday Take Me To…

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Bodensee

Postcard from Germany. Lake Constance (known as Bodensee in German) is a 63km-long central European lake that borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Fed by the Rhine River, it’s composed of 2 connected parts, the Untersee (lower lake) and the larger Obersee (upper lake). Multi-view Monday

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Financial Education

Postcard from Italy Italian Post Office ad postcard – October is the month of financial education, an opportunity to talk about finance and spread some knowledge on topics often considered difficult such as those of managing personal and family financial resources. Sunday Sundries