Mail from Austria

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Acrobatic man leaning over to smell the flowers. Inkognito. Erkelenzdamm

Sent by Andrea, Innsbruck, Austria

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A proud couple with mother pig. Photo Johan Schär (1855-1938)

Sent by Line, Vienna, Austria

 

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The fox: He knows the price of his tail, but he still believes in altruistic friendship.

Sent by Inga-Maria, Vienna, Austria

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Nina Simone ( 1933- 2003 ) 1960s.

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

Sent by Violet, Freistadt, Austria

Mail from Australia

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The Wounded Deer, 1946, Frida Kahlo(107-1054)

Received on 7 Feb, 2021

Sent by Megan, Melbourne, Australia 

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Fashion 

 Photo Bruno Benini Italian  (1925 - 2001)  Models- Robyn Fong, Lucinda Wills, and Graeme Jones. National Gallery of Victoria, 1972

Received on 28 Oct, 2020

Sent by The Barron's Family,  Cambooya, QLD.

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Barry Humphries, 2000

 Barry Humphries  (born  1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist, and author. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

Received on 26 Oct, 2020

Sent by Angela, Brisbane, QLD 

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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (1971 – 2017)

 Commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G. Yunupingu, was an Aboriginal Australian musician of the Yolŋu peoples. A multi-instrumentalist, I have played drums, keyboards, guitar and didgeridoo.

Receive on 11Sep, 2021

Sent by  philocartist, Brisbane, QLD  

Long ago....

Doris Day ( 1922 –  2019) 

was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945.  Day's film career began during the latter part of the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers.






Pat Boone

Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films.

Postcards from my collection 

Celebrities and Famous

 Freddie Mercury (1946 – 1991) 

Freddie Mercury was a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest lead singers in the history of rock music, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range.

Sent by Tatiana, Russia

 on 11 Jan, 2020

travel time 19 days

distance travelled 881 km

received on 30 Jan, 2020 

Vladimir Iljitš Lenin (1870-1924)

Russian politician, communist theorist, and founder of the Soviet Union

Lenin with a group of army officers inspecting troops of the nationwide military training service in Red Square on May 25, 1919

Sent by Larissa, Belarus

on 10 Jan, 2020

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,028 km

received on 30 Jan, 2020 

Significant people

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938)

1st President of Turkey and founder of modern Turkey. 

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an army officer who founded an independent Republic of Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. He then served as Turkey’s first president from 1923 until his death in 1938, implementing reforms that rapidly secularized and westernized the country. Under his leadership, the role of Islam in public life shrank drastically, European-style law codes came into being, the office of the sultan was abolished and new language and dress requirements were mandated. 

Sent by Sena in Ankara, Turkey

on 21 Sep, 2017

travel time 18 days

distance travelled 2,633 km

President Dwight D Eisenhower meets Chiang Kai Shek during his visit to Taiwan in 1960.

Sent by Irene in Keelung, Taiwan
on 26 Jul, 2019
travel time 26 days
distance travelled 8,020 km

Memorial Flat of Father John of Kronstadt

Father John of Kronstadt ( Ivan Ilyich Sergiyev)  1829–1909,  was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.  John is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and, as such, is known with the epithet "Righteous".

Sent by Nikolay in Kronstadt, Russia

 on 19 May, 2016

travel time 15 days

distance travelled 510 km

Yuri Gagarin smiling with peace dove

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 – 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour.

Sent by Olya in Krasnoarmeyskaya, Russia

 on 12 Sep, 2014

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 2,156 km