A postcard from Russia! The theme of the postcard is the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. The event will be held from 6 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Sochi was elected as the city to hold the games in 2007. And the stamp shows one of the mascots of the Olympic Games. It is actually a polar bear. The other two mascots are a hare and a leopard. Some news says that the three mascots were elected via a popular public vote through phones and the result was announced on a TV show. The stamp was released in 2013 and it was released as to celebrate the coming of new year 2014.
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A postcard from Belarus. This postcard shows the Corpus Christi Church. The building was built in 1593. And the stamp was a definitive stamp of Belarus and was released in 2012. It is the 13th definitive series of Belarus. The theme of the definitive stamp is Belarusian ornament.
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A postcard from Germany! The postcard shows the main railway station in Hannover, an important industrial and international trade fair city in Germany. Different important exhibitions, like the largest IT and telecommunication exhibition CeBIT would be held in this city every year. Even in 2000, the World Expo was held in this city.
The stamp features a Christmas tree. Merry Christmas to everyone =]
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Here is a postcard from the USA. This card shows the Anna Ruby Falls, which is located in Georgia. There is a National Recreation Trail (a designation given to existing trails that contribute to health, conservation, and recreation goals in the United States) near the waterfall area. The waterfall is actually a combination of 2 waterfalls from two separate streams.
Here are the stamps from the postcard. The first stamp was released in 1950, in order to honor the railroad engineers of the country. The man on the stamp is called Casey Jones. His dramatic death, trying to stop his train and save lives, made him a hero.
The second stamp was released in 1980. At that year, the Winter Olympic Games was held in Lake Placid in the USA. The last two stamps were all released in 2013, and they were from the series New England Coastal Lighthouses.
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A postcard from Germany. Thanks!
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A postcard from the Netherlands. The kind of bird, according to the sender, is Kakapo, a kind of bird that could be found in New Zealand. This kind of bird is now critically endangered. More information could be found here: the post talking about the same bird before.
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Another postcard received from Taiwan! This postcard shows an old map of Chiayi (嘉義) and Tainan (台南).
Another image of the stamp and cop found from another postcard from Taiwan. It is really a special mail chop, as the Rubber Duck visited Taiwan Taoyuan in October and November in 2013.
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Another postcard from Taiwan! This postcard shows Formosan sika deer (台灣梅花鹿). This kind of deer could not be found in natural environment probably since 1969 due to the influence of human activities, like development, or killing of deer. Now you could find them in some zoos, and the amount of the deer is increasing. There is a great discussion on whether to release some deer back to the nature.
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Here is a postcard from Taiwan! Taiwan used to be called “The Kingdom of Butterfly”. Approximately more than 400 kinds of butterflies could be found on Taiwan. Compare with Japan, the area is 10 times larger than Taiwan, but you could find only around 230 kinds of butterflies in Japan.
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A postcard from Germany! This card actually shows an important historic event in the world. It is one of the paintings found on the Berlin Wall. The museum about the Berlin Wall is called East Side Gallery.
The vehicle on this painting is called The Trabant. It is an ironic East-German Car, as it was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc. but the performance of this kind of car is really poor. It was often cited as a disadvantage of centralized planning. And also it is symbolized as the fall of East Germany.
The first stamp had been introduced before. And the second stamp was released in 2007. It is about the 75 Anniversary of the saale talsperre bleiloch (Saale Dam Bleiloch), umm, I guess is an important dam or reservoir built in Germany.
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