Showing posts with label views of the world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label views of the world. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Views of the World, San Nichola, Cebu, P.I.

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Cebu is an island in the Philippines.  I looked up San Nichola, but couldn't find it.  There is a neighborhood called San Nicholas i...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Views of the World, Old Gateway, Manila, P.I.

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File this one under, you learn something everyday.  I knew that before the U.S. took the Philippines, it had been a Spanish colony.  Wha...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Views of the World, Street Scene, Tokyo, Japan

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I promised I'd finish this collection by the end of the year, so, it's time for the last three of the lot.  (Click on Views of t...
Friday, December 4, 2015

Views of the World, Across the Lake From Island, Peking, China

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At the end of The Second Opium War, a joint Anglo-French force, under the leadership of James Bruce the 8th Earl of Elgin, High Commissi...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Views of the World, General View of Canton, China

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We'll be staying in China for a bit.  Canton is actually the city of Guangzhou.  Canton was a name used by European traders and like...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Views of the World, Nankin Road, Shanghai, China

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It's time to return to The First Opium War.  In addition to their acquisition of Hong Kong, the British also secured a number of con...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Views of the World, Harbor of Hong Kong, China

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For those of you who were waiting for a continuation of this series, you are in luck.  Views of the World (Click in labels for the others...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Views of the World, Market Day, Daijeeling, India

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First of all, it's Darjeeling, not Daijeeling.  Whether it's a misprint, or the postcard's publisher didn't know the dif...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Views of the World, Bengali Girls In Eden Garden, Calcutta India

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Coincidentally, I've just finished reading Calcutta, by the Indian author, Amit Chaudhuri.  It's a wonderful book that I highly ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Views of the World, Over Battlefields, Liaoyang, Manchuria

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There have been a lot of wars in Manchuria.  It just seems to be one of those areas that people are willing to kill and die for, for no ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Views of the World, Imperial Mausoleum Mukden, Manchuria

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It's time to return to The Views of the World postcard collection.  I promise, done by the new year. Manchuria is an area in north...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Views of the World, Rock Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt

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The  temples at Abu Simbel were carved along the upper Nile, in the province of Nubia, during the rein of Ramses the Great.  It took aro...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Views of the World, Boats on the Nile, Egypt

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Just for the hell of it, I thought I'd scan one of this series in grey scale. Click on Views of the World in labels to see othe...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Views of the World, The Casino, Monte Carlo

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When I first moved west, I would make occasional runs to Las Vegas.  I stopped going  when I realized a few things.  1. I always lost. 2...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Views of the World, General View of Monte Carlo

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Monte Carlo is a district in Monaco, the second smallest and most densely populated country on Earth.  Fun fact, in 1963 Monaco abolishe...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Views of the World, Christiania, Showing Royal Palace, Norway

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File this one under, you learn something everyday.  Oslo, the capital of Norway was founded in 1050.  It was heavily damaged by fire in ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Views of the World, Street Scene, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Well, it's back to this collection for a few days.  Anyone wishing to see others from this lot as well as catching up on the backsto...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Views of the World, Canal, Amsterdam, Holland

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Think Holland and you think canals or tulips.  I suspect it would have been too hard for some poor colorist to go in and do thousands of...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Views of the World, Falls of the Rhine, Switzerland

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The Falls of the Rhine, the upper Rhine, is near the town of Schaffausen,Switzerland.  It's 450 feet wide, 75 feet wide, and the hig...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Views of the World, Cologne Cathedral, Germany

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The postcards in this series were made for the American market, and I have to wonder, when  people looked at these cards, did it make th...