MAPUCHE (HOMBRES DE LA TIERRA) - TRAIGUEN

 

Special Thanks to Carolina for the wonderful card.sent  August 2021.

    The Mapuche (people of the land in Mapudungun) have historically inhabited the valleys of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. During colonial times, the Spaniards knew the Mapuche as Araucanos (Araucanians in English), term that is now considered pejorative. The Mapuche are a diverse ethnicity composed of various groups that share a common social, religious, and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage. Each group has a distinctive name regarding the region they live in. It is believed that Mapuches first inhabited the valleys between the Itata and Toltén Rivers in Chile. In the early 15th century, Mapuches fought the Inca invaders from Peru, stopping the expansion of the Inca Empire toward the south. After the arrival of the Spaniards, Mapuches began expanding eastward into the Andes and pampas forming, with the native people, the Pehuenche (people of the Pehuén, the Araucaria's fruit).

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• Bicentenary Battle of Maipu

Country:
    Chile
Themes:
    Battle | Coats of Arms | Horses
Issued on:
    2018-04-05

• 50 years Radio Bío Bío
  

Country:
    Chile
Series:
    Radio Bio Bio, 50th Anniv.
Themes:
    Anniversaries and Jubilees | Maps | Radio
Issued on:
    2016-12-07

Fortress of Suomenlinna

 

Thanks to jokutiina from Finland , sent 01 Sep 2021

    Situated on a group of islands off Helsinki, Suomenlinna was built during the Swedish era as a maritime fortress and a base for the Archipelago Fleet. Work on the fortress began in 1748.

 

 

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• Lotta Svärd Women's Auxiliary Corps, Centenary

Country:
    Finland
Series:
    Lotta Svärd Women's Auxiliary Corps, Centenary (2021)
Themes:
    Military Forces | Women
Issued on:
    2021-04-28

BROTHERS,Navajo

 

HOMELAND SECURTY PROTECTING THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1492

 

KRAKOW, The Main Market Square

 Thanks to Biker Mouse from Goodreads sent 20 .08. 2021

    Kraków’s main market square ('Rynek Główny') serves as the city’s gravitational centre, and is the natural start and finish point for any tour of the city. Originally designed in 1257 - the year Kraków was awarded its charter – the grid-like layout of the Old Town and its central square has changed little in the years that have followed. Measuring 200 metres squared (40,000 square metres), the Rynek ranks as one of the largest medieval squares in Europe, and is surrounded by elegant townhouses, all with their own unique names, histories and curiosities. 

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Easter 2021

• Country:

    Poland

• Themes:

            Easter | Eggs

• Issued on:

            2021-02-19

Pakistan overstroming 2010

 

Thanks To Mandy Tulp  for the nice card sent 05-04-2015

about the card :

    Doctors of the World provides medical assistance to vulnerable groups around the world. We help the people the world is forgetting little by little. Because every human being has a right to medical care. Your proceeds go to our Operation Smile project: children with a deformity in developing countries are operated and local doctors trained. An operation costs on average € 250. Thank you very much!

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• Amsterdam House

Country:
    Netherlands
Series:
    Dutch Icons (International)
Themes:
    Houses
Issued on:
    2014-01-03

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

 

Thanks to Helent for the wonderful card , sent 14.08.2021

    The Royal Exhibition Building was built in Melbourne's Carlton Gardens during 1879 and 1880 for the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition. It subsequently hosted Melbourne's second international exhibition, the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition. It is one of the great enduring monuments to the International Exhibition movement, which began in the mid-19th century.

 

 

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$1.10 - Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

In 2004, the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens in Melbourne became the first Australian UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site. The building, or Great Hall, is significant as the oldest surviving building in the world from the Great Exhibition era still operating as an exhibition hall.

The building and gardens were designed by Joseph Reed to host the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 and the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition in 1888, at the time the largest events ever staged in Australia. The building was the venue for the formal opening of the first parliament of Australia, in 1901. It became a makeshift hospital during the great influenza epidemic of 1918 and hosted wrestling, weightlifting and basketball events in the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. As well as the building itself, the stamp showcases an interior detail from the ceiling of the magnificent dome.