Ukraine

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Statue of Ukrainian actress Mary K. Zankovetskaya

Brazil

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Casa da Camara e Cadeida, Sao Jose, Brazil

Russia

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Tomsk, Russia, a 400+ year-old city in Siberia

The photo on the card is of: "The administrative building of a special technical-economical-type area."

Which sounds like double-speak and is awesome.

USA - Iowa

The Sergeant Floyd River Museum and Welcome Center, Sioux City, Iowa

This was actually a pretty awesome museum in a land-based river boat.

USA - South Carolina

She-Crab Soup, Charleston, South Carolina

I haven't tried the recipe, but this is one of the best soups I've ever eaten.

Taiwan

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A Bust of Jupiter Serpis at the National Archaeological Museum, Florence, Italy

Yup, this is another one of those cards which look like they should come from one country, but you discover got mailed from a totally different part of the world.  

USA - Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

From my friend Molly

Belarus

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Minsk's Governors Street, in 1915

Lithuania

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A sunrise over a field of flowers, maybe?

Ukraine

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A cat laying down.

Netherlands

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United Kingdom

From Catherine

My friend Catherine told me a story about when she was in a taxi in New York.  The driver noticed her English accent and asked her where she was from:

       "You're from London?" he asked her.

       "No, I'm from Leeds.  It's in England!"

       "England?  Is that in London?"

       "Yes," she said, defeated.  "Yes...England is in London..."

Austria

Freud's room where he saw patients.  No, you cannot lay down on the couch and tell your innermost secrets and desires.

Vienna, Austria

Poland

Wrocław, Poland

My friend Mark sent me this card via Amsterdam.  Knowing that I had a fondness for Poland, he thought I'd get a bigger kick out of this apparently than a card from the Netherlands.

USA - Washington

From Val.  Oh how I love vintage travel cards!

Ukraine

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A very fanciful artwork whose name is in Russia or Ukrainian but is apparently done by someone named Kate Dudnik

Taiwan

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A pagoda shaped card, from Taiwan.

USA - Colorado

Tea!  

"True Blueberry" from Val.

Russia

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The card is apparently of Moscow and dates from the 1960s.  I am told it says "Happy New Year".  

I love these older kinds of cards.  The pictures are beautiful and the idea that the card was waiting at least a good 40-plus years to get sent all the way to the other side of the world is pretty amazing.   

United Kingdom

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The Throne Room, Buckingham Palace

Netherlands

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Dutch Cow b Gre Wijnhoven

Russia

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The bell-tower of Bogojalenski (Theopany) Cathedral, Kazan, Russia

USA - Illinois

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, at Navy Pier

I cannot highly enough recomend visiting the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.  I went yesterday to see the new presentation of Henry V there yesterday! 

Australia

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Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Finland

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"A leisurely holiday greetings!

The 100th Card Received!: USA - Vermont, USA - Ohio

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On  Thursday April 23, 2014, my 100th and 101st official Postcrossing cards that I received arrived in my mailbox.  The two cards both came from the United States.  The top card (US-2753843) was sent from the Vermont/New Hampshire border, while the lower card (US-2752902) was sent from Ohio.  The one card shows a Vermont "Sugar House" while the second postcard depicts what appears to be an old photograph of a women in a long dress walking a street with a child.  Unfortunately the second card doesn't give any further context to the image.

The card from Vermont traveled 1,249 km (776 miles) in 3 days (which is also the quickest a card has ever taken to get to me.  The cad from Ohio traveled  411 km (255 miles) in 4 days.

For the first 101 sent cards, I've so far received cards from 30 different countries: Germany (14), Russia (10), Netherlands (11), USA (8) Ukraine (8), China (5), Czech Republic (4), Taiwan (4), Finland (4), Belgium (3), Turkey (3), United Kingdom (3), Belarus (3), Brazil (2), Lithuania (2), France (2), Hong Kong (2), Australia (1), Denmark (1), Estonia (1), India (1), Norway (1), Sweden (1),  Switzerland, (1), Thailand (1), Venezuela (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), and Poland (1).

USA - Indiana

A rather old car of Purdue University which was mailed on May 5, 1920: 96 years ago today!  I believe this would be currently looking towards the Hello Walk with your back to the Stewart Center.  

The stone pillars are still there.  The metal gates are long gone.  The building on the right side of the card appears to be a building where currently is located either the Math Building or Class of 1950 Lecture Hall.  This may have been Purdue Hall.  The card also mentions that it is hand tinted.

USA - Nevada

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A very sparkly Las Vegas card and my fist official US Postcrossing card.

Poland

Ok...it is a slight cheat saying this is from Poland.  I bought this card at the Art Institute of Chicago on my very first ever visit there.  However, it is of an anonymous painting from Krakow featured in the art exhibit about Polish art and the winged hussars (ie: winged horsemen visible in the painting).  

The painting's title: Entry of the Wedding Procession of Constance of Austria and Sigismund III into Cracow [Krakow]: The King's Hussar Regiment.

However, today is also Polish Constitution Day, commemorating the May 3, 1791 constitution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.  .It is often considered the oldest written constitution in Europe and the second oldest in the world behind that of the United States.  

Italy

Matera, Italy

Thanks to Elisa for sending this to me from her native Italy!

Extra cool bonus about this card?  When addressing it she actually spelled out United States of America in Italian.  :)

Cuba

Havana, Playa de Marianao, Marianao bathing beach

Card dated 1953, Republic of Cuba