Bode-Museum Berlin | Germany

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Museum Island is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river in Berlin, Germany. This island is home to five different museums, built between 1824 and 1930.

The Bode museum displays a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins and medals.

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Izmir Clock Tower | Turkey

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The Izmir Clock Tower is a historic clock tower located at the Konak Square in İzmir, Turkey. The clock was built in 1901 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s accession to the throne.

 

Here you see the square on 16th July 2016.

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Triceratops. Part of a set of four stamps about dinosaurs, issued 2012. 

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Sant'Antioco Island | Italy

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Sant'Antioco is the fourth largest Italian island, after Sicily, Sardinia and Elba. The island is located just off the coast of Sardinia and is connected by a causeway. Torre Canai is an old military tower built in 1757.

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Torre de Belém | Portugal

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The Belém tower was built in the sixteenth century in the Tagus river to control the entrance to the city from the sea. Today the tower is Lisbon’s popular tourist attraction.

The Torre de Belém is a UNESCO World Heritage site together with the Monastery of the Hieronymites, also located in Lisbon.  

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A stamp to celebrate the completion in 1614 of the autobiographical memoirs of Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509-1583), a Portuguese explorer and writer. His voyages are recorded in Pilgrimage (Peregrinação in Portugese).

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Tunis, the Capital of Tunisia

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Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The name of the country is derived from the name of its capital. About 650,000 of the 11 million Tunisians live in Tunis.

 

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The stamp shows the lighthouse of the Galite Islands, a rocky group of islands of volcanic origin off the Tunisian coast.

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Piazza San Marco - Venice | Italy

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The Piazza San Marco is the principal public square in Venice, Italy. The city is built on a group of 117 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. In the background you see the Saint Mark's Basilica with the bell tower.

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To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, a famous Italian poet. 

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Tower of old Panama's Cathedral

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Panamá Viejo is the remaining part of the old Panama City and former capital of the country. It is located in the suburbs of the modern city. 

Together with the historical district of Panamá (Casco Viejo), it forms a World Heritage Site since 1997.

 

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Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias was Panama's first female president, serving from 1999 to 2004.

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Diocletian's Palace, Split | Croatia

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The ruins of Diocletian's Palace, built between the late 3rd and the early 4th centuries AD, can be found throughout the Croatian city of Split.

This palace is today the heart of the inner-city where all the most important historical buildings can be found. There are many attractions within the palace, but the most viewed is the Saint Duje Cathedral (Saint Dujam).  Thx Mirna!

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Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan

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Astana, meaning Capital in Kazakh language, is the capital and the second largest city of Kazakhstan. But only 15 years ago the city didn't really exist at all. In 1997 Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev moved the capital from Almaty to Astana.

Today the science fiction-like skyline has started to earn the country international recognition. On the right of the postcard you see the most famous landmark in Astana, the 105m tall Bayterek tower.

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Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia

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Kuala Lumpur is the capital and most populous city in Malaysia. Petronas Towers, a pair of skyscraper office buildings in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, that are among the world’s tallest buildings with a height of 450 metres. The Twin Towers were built to house the headquarters of Petronas, the national petroleum company of Malaysia.

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Malaysia Post issued a set of four stamps on 25 July, 2013 featuring traditional Malaysian salads. This stamp pictures Kacang Botor.

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The Eiffel Tower, Paris

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Paris, the capital and largest city of France. There is not much change you haven’t heard of the French capital's most beloved landmark: the Eiffel Tower. More than 7 million people visit this iconic tower every year. More than 250 million people since its opening in 1889.

The tower rises 300 meters tall and when it was completed at the end of the 19th century it was the tallest structure in the world. The Eiffel Tower was built for the World Exhibition in 1889, held in celebration of the French Revolution in 1789. The man behind the Eiffel Tower was Gustave Eiffel.

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China's tallest buildings

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The Shanghai World Financial Center was planned to be the tallest building in the world when it was designed in 1997. The 97 Story building would surpass the spires of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.

When Construction was restarted in 2003, the 508 Meter Taipei 101 in Taiwan was already underway to becoming the World's Tallest Building. Plans where changed but the Tower couldn’t be built any higher than its present height at 492 meters since the already done foundation was meant to support a 460 meter tall building. 

The slightly smaller skyscraper is the 420.5 meters high Jin Mao Tower. "Jin Mao" means "Golden Prosperity" in Chinese.

On the left you see the Oriental Pearl Broadcasting & TV Tower. With 468 meters one of the tallest broadcasting towers in the world.

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The tallest building in the world: Dubai's Burj Khalifa

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Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 829 meters.Burj means Tower in Arabic language. It’s renamed after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi.

It was officially opened on Jan 4, 2010. Construction began in September 2004.

 

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Falconry is an integral part of desert life which has been practiced in the UAE for centuries. Originally, falcons were used for hunting, to supplement the Bedouin diet with some meat.

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The tallest broadcasting tower in the world: Tokyo Sky Tree

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Tokyo Skytree is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It is the tallest structure in Japan with a height of 634 metres (2,080 ft) and the second tallest structure in the world after Dubai’s Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

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The Kuwait Towers

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One of the most distinct architectural expressions in the Middle East. Designed by a Swedish architectural firm and opened in 1979, the largest of the three towers rises to a height of 187m, and house a two-level revolving observation deck, gift shop and café.

The lower globe on the largest tower stores around one million gallons of water.

The middle tower is also used for water storage, while the smallest tower is used to light up the other two. The design is excellent, being both very modern and very Arabic at the same time.

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From a set of 19(!) stamps: 50Th anniversary of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic development.

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A Postcard from Rovinj, Croatia

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Rovinj is a city in Croatia situated on the north Adriatic Sea with a population of about 14,000. It is located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula and is a popular tourist resort and an active fishing port.

Want to know more about Rovinj? Go visit http://www.rovinj.info/

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Nova Godina 2012 | New Year 2012, dance of falling snowflakes.

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A postcard from United Arab Emirates: Dubai Sightseeing

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Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the bottom left picture you see the Burj Khalifa.

Burj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is currently the tallest manmade structure in the world, at 829.84 m (2,723 ft).

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UAE 2011 Cancer Control Conference Stamp

UAE  Islamic Architecture  ~  “AL BIDYAH MOSQUE”

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A postcard from Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Information

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This complex houses the Ministry of Information, a 170 meter high tower, which is the broadcasting center of Riyadh city as well as a television studio.

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 (right) The Kaaba, Mecca

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A Skyscraper from Taiwan: Taipei 101 | 台北101

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Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010.

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(left) From a set of four definitive beetle-stamps: “musk long-horned beetle”.

(right) A lighthouse.

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A night view from Taipeh City

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Taipei 101 is a skyscraper located in Taipei City, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. It has 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. Height including antenna is more than 500 meters.

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Spinibarbus hollandi It can be found in the middle stretches of rivers in southern and eastern Taiwan.

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