Showing posts with label POSTMARKS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POSTMARKS. Show all posts
INDONESIA
The lovely card from Indonesia.
Thank you Mia for lovely Chinese Lunar New Year cards ..This one being The Year of The Goat 2015 with the most wonderful large stamp set released by the Indonesian POSTAL SERVICE
HONG KONG
"Greetings from HONG KONG " This is another of my favourite" Greetings from " card
Hong Kong is a special administrative Region of The Peoples Republic of China that covers and area of 1,104 square Klm.with a population of &, 234, 800 it has over 7100 Postcrossing postcard members.There are some really interesting facts on this card and one especially is that Hong kong has the most skscrapers ( buildings classified as having more than 14 floors) in the world more than double its nearest rival New York City.Also people with the highest IQ in the world is in Hong Kong with an average score of 108. Bauhina is the Central Emblem of The Hong Kong flag.and "Sousa Chinensis is The emblem of the reunification of Hong Kong with China "Sousa Chinensis" is the Chinese white dolphin.The. Tsing Ma Bridge is The Worlds longest road and rail suspension Bridge and is a famous Hong Kong Land mark.Famous Hong Konger's, Bruce Lee,Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun Fat.
Thank you soo much Hannah for this nice card :) :)
FRANCE
This is art of Menton .Menton is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Situated on the French Riviera, along the Franco-Italian border, it is nicknamed la perle de la France ("The Pearl of France").
Thank you soo much Frederiue for your nice card :) and soo nice stamp :) :)
BELARUS
Thank you soo much Minsk for your beautiful Jetoy cat cards its really lovely card and soo beautiful stamp and postmark :)
AUSTRALIA
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974. It is the most compact cyclone or equivalent-strength hurricane on record in the Australian basin, with gale-force winds extending only 48 kilometres (30 mi) from the centre and was the most compact system worldwide until 2008 when Tropical Storm Marco of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season broke the record, with gale-force winds extending only 19 kilometres (12 mi) from the centre. After forming over the Arafura Sea, the storm moved southwards and affected the city with Category 4 winds on the Australian cyclone intensity scale, while there is evidence to suggest that it had reached Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale when it made landfall.
Tracy killed 71 people, caused A$837 million in damage (1974 dollars), or approximately A$4.45 billion (2014 dollars). It destroyed more than 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, including 80 percent of houses.Tracy left more than 41,000 out of the 47,000 inhabitants of the city homeless prior to landfall and required the evacuation of over 30,000 people.Most of Darwin's population was evacuated to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs and Sydney, and many never returned to the city. After the storm passed, the city was rebuilt using more modern materials and updated building techniques. Bruce Stannard of The Age stated that Cyclone Tracy was a "disaster of the first magnitude ... without parallel in Australia's history."
Thank you soo much Roma for your card :) and stamp :)
AUSTRALIA
Echidnas
Echidnas sometimes known as spiny anteaters, belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals. The four extant species, together with the platypus, are the only surviving members of that order and are the only extant mammals that lay eggs.Their diet consists of ants and termites, but they are not closely related to the true anteaters of the Americas. They live in Australia and New Guinea.
Echidnas evidently evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago, descending from a platypus-like monotreme.This ancestor was aquatic, but echidnas adapted to life on land.
Echidnas are medium-sized, solitary mammals covered with coarse hair and spines.Superficially, they resemble the anteaters of South America and other spiny mammals such as hedgehogs and porcupines. They are usually black or brown in colour. There have been several reports of albino echidnas, their eyes pink and their spines white.They have elongated and slender snouts that function as both mouth and nose. Like the platypus, they are equipped with electrosensors, but while the platypus has 40,000 electroreceptors on its bill, the long-billed echidna has only 2,000, and the short-billed echidna, which lives in a drier environment, has no more than 400 located at the tip of its snout.[6] They have very short, strong limbs with large claws, and are powerful diggers. Echidnas have tiny mouths and toothless jaws. The echidna feeds by tearing open soft logs, anthills and the like, and using its long, sticky tongue, which protrudes from its snout, to collect prey.
Thank you so much Denny for your nice card like this very much :) :)
AUSTRALIA
The koala
The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae, and its closest living relatives are the wombats.The koala is found in coastal areas of the mainland's eastern and southern regions, inhabiting Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It is easily recognisable by its stout, tailless body; round, fluffy ears; and large, spoon-shaped nose. The koala has a body length of 60–85 cm (24–33 in) and weighs 4–15 kg (9–33 lb). Pelage colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown. Koalas from the northern populations are typically smaller and lighter in colour than their counterparts further south. It is possible that these populations are separate subspecies, but this is disputed.Thank you soo much my loving friend Denny for your lovely card and soo cute stamps ... like this card very much.this is my first card from Australia .Thanks again Denny
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