Schools

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Danvers High School (DHS) is a public high school in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Danvers Public Schools school district.

Sent by Jenn from Massachusetts

This and That on Tuesday

Images of Provence, Lavender field

Sent by Nadine on 21 Oct, 2014 from Geneva, Switzerland

Dresden, Germany

Sent by Thomas on 8 Oct, 2014 from Dresden

Selborne, United Kingdom

A view of one of Hampshire's prettiest villages seen from the Hangar.

Sent by Hermione on 19 Aug, 2017 from Southampton

The Back Bay

Boston, Massachusetts

The historic brownstone surrounded by modern skyscrapers make Boston an interesting place to live.

Sent by Sandra on 25 May, 2014 from Rochester, Minnesota

Boston, Massachusetts

Sent by Paris on 3 Sep, 2016 from Boston

Buildings

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Goethe House, Frankfurt, Germany

Sent by Helga on 28 May 2022 from Basel Germany 

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West Indian Goods Sale om Salem Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Sent by"novemberhope" on 31 Jul, 2014 from Offenburg, Germany

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Utrecht, Oudegracht

The Oudegracht, or "old canal", runs through the center of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Warehouses used to line the canal. Today many of these warehouses have been converted into restaurants and cafés.

Sent by Ronald on 19 Sep, 2020 from Kerkrade. 

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Talsi, Latvia

View from the Church Hill. Photo M. Vanaga

Sent by Linda on 26 Oct, 2014 from Riga Latvia

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Mississippi River Road Plantations. Louisiana, U.S.A.

Sent by Nova on 20 Feb, 2014 from  Fort Scott, Kansas

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Driving School

Photo Olga Davletbaeva

Sent by Irena on 20 Jan 2014 from Minsk, Belarus

Map Monday- Cape Cod

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Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 

Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. 

Sent by Emma-Leigh on 26 Oct, 2020 from Plymouth, Massachusetts 

Travel time 10 days

 

 

Old farm in winter

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Old horse drawn hay rake in Berkshire, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Received on 9 Jan, 2015

Sent by Hildegard (Antverp, Belgium)

Universities and libraries

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Greetings from Redlands where the desert meets the mountains

University of Redlands, California

Received on 15 Nov, 2015

Sent by Jude ( Redlands, California ) 

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

The Maclaurin Building

Received on 28 Dec, 2016

Sent by David ( Madison, Wisconsin )

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The Park Building at the University of Utah.

Received on 6 Feb, 2019

Sent by Morgan ( Cordova, Utah ) 

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The Spartanburg County Public Library, South Carolina

Received on 9 Oct, 2017

Sent by Gail ( Woodruff, South Carolina ) 

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Aiken County Library, South Carolina

Received on 23 Jul, 2020 

Sent by Maryann  ( Vaucluse, South Carolina )

 

Local and National Symbols

 

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Massachusetts State by LouPaper

Received on 18 Feb, 2021

Sent by Jennifer ( Beverly, U.S.A.)

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Chinese Traditional Architecture - Doors

Received on 13 Jan, 2015

Sent by Luoyi (Wenling, China)

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Greetings from Tian Jin, China

Received on 10 Feb, 2010

Sent by Zuo YiXuan ( Tian Jin, China)

Stars and Stripes

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Geneseo, New York

Geneseo is a town in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. 

The Bear Fountain sits in the center of Geneseo village's Main Street. In this picture, it is decorated with flags for Memorial Day. The village and town are known today mainly as the home of the State University of New York at Geneseo.

Receive on 14 Jun, 2018

Sent by David (Geneseo, U.S.A.)

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Iwo Jima Statue

The United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is a national memorial located in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. The war memorial was inspired by the iconic 1945 photograph of six Marines raising a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Received on 8 Aug, 2013 

Sent by Claire ( Las Vegas, Nevada)

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Boston old State House adorned for the centennial celebrations of 1876. The Old State House is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1713, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. It is one of the oldest public buildings in the United States.

Received on 29 Apr, 2019

Sent by James (Cambridge, Massachusetts) 

Religious buildings

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 Saint Waltrude Church, Golden Coach Mons, Belgium

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,696 km

dent by Ott_19  near Brussels 

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Beguinage in Aarschot, Belgium

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,656 km

sent by Marie-Jeanne, Aarschot, Belgium

A beguinage, from the French term béguinage, is an architectural complex which was created to house beguines: lay religious women who lived in community without taking vows or retiring from the world.

Reims Cathedral - Notre Dame
Direct swap
sent by Perrine, Reims, France

Reims Cathedral, also called the Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Reims, cathedral located in the city of Reims. Reims was the site of 25 coronations of the kings of France, from Louis VIII in 1223 to Charles X in 1825, including the crowning of Charles VII in 1429 in the presence of Joan of Arc.

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Old North Church, Boston
travel time 14 days
distance travelled 7,696 km
sent by Pat, Denver, Colorado

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Church of the Holy Spirit
Talashkino (Smolensk region),
Artist Nicholas Roerich
sent by Nastya, Kharkov, Ukraine

old times

 The girl with strawberries. Russia

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, ca,1909

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 1,171 km

sent by Konstantin in Moscow

Boston, Massachusetts in late 1770s.

travel time 14 days

distance travelled 6,057 km

sent by Igor in Boston

 Traditional life in the counrtyside, SouthFrance

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 2,500 km

sent by Nathalie in Toulouse

 Sergey Malyutin (1859-1937) in ceramic workshop with his students.

Sergey Vasilyevich Malyutin was a Russian painter of fine crafts, (scenic) designer, illustrator and architect; initially associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Most of his oil paintings are portraits.

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 1,022 km.

sent by Vitaly in Smolensk

Peaceful Waters

Los Gigantes, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Dorrit from Austria spent her last vacation in Tenerife. 

She liked the warm weather and beautiful and varied landscapes.

But these waters are not always quite this peaceful.  

 Distance: 1,688 km

Travel time: 44 days

The Schooners Lannon, Ardelle &Fame in Essex, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 

Came from sitiaishah in Boston, U.S.A.

Distance: 6,060 km

Travel time: 16 days

Song River - Vang Vieng. Laos

Sandra was working and traveling for few months in South-East- Asia in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Thank you Sandra I'm so glad I can add a new country in my list :)

Distance: 1,558 km

Travel time: 20 days

Li Jiang, China

Lijiang, an attractive tourist destination in Yunnan Province, is considered a fairyland blessed with fresh air, clear streams, breathtaking snowy mountains and an undisturbed landscape inhabited by friendly people. 

This beautiful scenery was sent by Double-Plus. 

Distance: 7,898 km

Travel time: 69 days