Goethe

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German universal genius: poet, novelist, playwright, humanist, researcher, painter and for ten years also the prime minister of the Weimar state. Goethe is generally considered the most influential figure in German-language fiction. Wikipedia

Born: August 28, 1749, Goethe House, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Men Monday

Finland's President P.E. Svinhufvud  at Kotkaniemi in the 1930's

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (15 December 1861 – 29 February 1944) was the third president of Finland from 1931 to 1937

Sent by Tiina on 26 Aug, 2021 from Lappeenranta, Finland

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Sent by Tanja on 3 Nov 2021 from Vaasa, Finland

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Portrait of Goethe 1825. Art by Joseph Karl Stieler (1781- 1853 German)

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Pop Art - Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 –  2004) was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Sent by Cathy Jo on 16 Dec, 2018 from Riverside California

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Gumoxie Solder's Armor

This soldier wears armor and helmet. The armor is made by big leather and painted in red, and the helmet is composed of iron sheets. Before attack, they wore this kind of armor and danced.

Sent by Ray on 6 Apr, 2013 from Beijing, China

Houdini poster 1905

Sent by Minna on 3 Nov, 2021 from Eno, Finland

Portraits

Portrait of Adrian Stevens, 1629. Art by Anthony van Dyck ( 1599- 1641) Flanders, Belgium

Portrait of a Lady Wearing Pearls. Art by Justus Sustermans (1957-1681) Flanders

Lady Hamilton as "Nature"

George Romey, British artist

The Feick Collection, New Yoek 

 

Men

David Suchet as Poirot

Sir David Courtney Suchet (1946-) is an English actor known for his work on British stage and television.  International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Sent by Olga on 17 Sep, 2020 from Belarus

Paul Newman ( 1925 –  2008 ) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

Sent by Andrea on 18 Sep, 2020 from Czech Republic

 

Men

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Crowded House. Photo Dennis Keeley

Crowded House are an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1985.

Sent by Ros on 30 May 2022 from Tasmania

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Portrait of Adrian Paul Alllinson, 1909 by Emil Otto Hoppé 

Adrian Paul Allinson  (1890 –  1959) was a British painter, potter and engraver known for his landscapes of Southern Europe and North Africa, and for a series of notable posters he made for London Transport.

Emil Otto Hoppé (1878 – 1972) was a German-born British portrait, travel, and topographic photographer active between 1907 and 1945. Born to a wealthy family in Munich, he moved to London in 1900 to train as a financier, but took up photography and rapidly achieved great success.

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Mahatma Gandhi 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 –1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

 Copperplate etching, based on a silver-pencil drawing by Dorothea Stock, 1789

Sent by Rebecca on 24 Jan, 2021 from Hamburg, Germany 

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Hairdresser Lwowski and his hairdressing salon

Sent by Olga on 29 Jan, 2015 from Warsaw

 

Mailbox Today

Kracow, Poland

Sent by Basia on 27 Sep, 2022 from Kracow

Have You seen this wizard ? 

Sent by Grit on 27 Sep, 2022 from Leipzig, Germany

Coffee ♥ and Book ♥

Sent by Silvia on 7 Sep, from  2022 from North Carolina, U.S.A.

 

Men

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John Winslow Irving (March 2, 1942)  is an American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter.

Sent by Lana on 6 Mar, 2021 from Dortmund, Germany

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Josef Vlastimil Burian, better known as Vlasta Burian  ( 1891- 1962 ) was Czech stage and film actor and director, singer and sportsman, businessman, author and imitator. 

Sent by Marek on 7 Mar, 2021 from Znojmo 

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Kari Hotakainen (born 9 January 1957 in Pori, Finland) is a Finnish writer.

Illustration Pekka Vuori, Finnish artist

Sent by Anja on 7 Nov, 2021 from Nokia, Finland

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Jean Sibelius (!865- 1957) Finnish composer and violinist.

Photo Sibelius Celebrations

Sent by Nina 

 

Men

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Members of No. 106 Squadron at Syerston, Nottinghamshire in front of Lancaster aircraft flown by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, in 1943

Sent by Tiia on 30 Oct, 2021 from Paimio, Finland

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Lewis Clark Cook (1909- 83) photographer for the Portland News in 1927.

Sent by Liz on 7 Nov, 2017 from Portland Oregon, U.S.A.

travel time 8 days.

Men

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Three jolly fishermen show their catch - a sculpin. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Yaroslav Bayarunas, Russian actor and singer

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Thirst goes out. Finnish beer advertisement, 1954

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CZ-1841660.  R.A. Dvorsky (1899-1966) Czech singer, swing musician, composer and a bandleader of the Melody Boys.

 

 

Skyscrapers

Lunchtime

New York Skyscrapers

Sent by Lucie in Victoria, Canada

on 23 Mar, 2020

travel time 52 days

distance travelled 7,285 km

received on 14 May, 2020 

Men

 Fishermen

Sent by Evangelia in Würzburg, Germany 

 on 24 Feb, 2014

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,591 km

received on 3 Mar, 2014 

 Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove 1964

Sent by Mary in Sain  Petersburg, Russia

on 3 Aug, 2018

travel time 12 days

distance travelled 538 km

received on 15 Aug, 2018 

Farmwork

Duch Openair Museum

Sent by Lotte in Arnhem, The  Netherlands

 on 3 Dec, 2013

travel time 65 days

distance travelled 1,537 km

received on 6 Feb, 2014 

Men

Jalmari Rinne ( 1893-1985) Finnish actor, Turku City Theatre 1926

Sent by Seija in Helsinki

on 25 Aug, 2013

travel time 3 days

distance travelled 306 km

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Goethe 1828 by Karl Joseph Stieler ( 1781 -1858)

sent by Cathy in Geelong vic, Australia

 on 29 Feb, 2020

travel time 33 days

distance travelled 15,338 km

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Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) the 16th President of United States (1861–1865)

Sent by Fleur in New Hampshire, U.S.A.

on 7 Mar, 2020

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 6,042 km

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Men Monday

Postman from Moscow

Greetings from Moscow!

Sent by Natalya in Minsk, Belarus

on 9 Jul, 2018

travel time 35 days

distance travelled 1,028 km

 received on 13 Aug, 2018

Don McCullin b. 1935

Sent by Andrea in  Castrop-Rauxel, Germany

 on 8 Mar, 2020

travel time 4 days

distance travelled 1,513 km

 received on 12 Mar, 2020

 Donald McCullin ( 1935), is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.

 Carlos Santana

Sent by Wilhelm in Kornwestheim, Germany

 on 7 Mar, 2020

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,725 km

received on 13 Mar, 2020

Carlos Santana  (born  1947) is a Mexican and American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz.

Famous Irish writers

Sent by Ewa in Dunmanway, Ireland

on 20 Jan, 2019

travel time 11 days

distance travelled 2,201 km

received on 31 Jan, 2019 

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

Traditional Greece - fishing

Fishermen's net

Drying the octopus in the sun in the seaside village on the island of Crete.

Traditional Greece - Worry beads

On a trip to Greece, there’s a good chance that you’ll notice Greeks fidgeting with a string of beads in their hands. The string of beads are known as worry beads or komboloi, which Greeks use to soothe themselves, especially during difficult times.

There are many different ways to use worrying beads and everyone finds a unique routine that works just for them. Some people spin the beads in their hands. Others choose to count the beads over and over. There is no right or wrong way. The goal is simply to use the beads to defuse stress and calm the nerves.

Samos shop (my photo)

Portraits of Men

Petr Brandl (1668-1735) 

Portrait of a Mining Official , about 1728 

The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

My postcard collection - Baroque painting in Bohemia

Petr Brandl was one of the main representatives of the Baroque in Bohemia.

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 Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Portrait of an old man, 1654

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,183 km

sent by Irina from Moscow

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was  one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish: 1577 - 1640)

Head of a Franciscan Friar Circa 1615

 Rubens, Paintings from the Hermitage Collection

 Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition.

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Orest Kiprensky. (1782-1836)

Portrait of Alexander Pushkin.  1827

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 2,369 km

sent by Anastasia from Chelyabinsk

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me".

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The Huanghe River (part#1)
Li Zijian (1954-) China
travel time 17 days
distance travelled 8,018 km
sent by Emily from Taipei