Moari Action Song, New Zealand

Maori Action Song
New Zealand

Performed by Maori Concert Party,
Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, New Zealand

postmarked in 2010 with a 1.80 New Zealand 'Russell' stamp

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Māori music is music composed or performed by Māori, the native people of New Zealand, and includes a wide variety of folk music styles.

Pre-European Māori music was predominantly sung, but researchers Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns have unearthed a rich tradition of blown, struck and whirled instruments. Types of song included lullabies (oriori), love songs (waitata aroha) and laments (waiata tangi). Some of the smaller wind instruments were also sung into, and the sound of the poi (raupo ball swung on the end of a flax cord) provided a rhythmic accompaniment to waiata poi.

National Post Card Week - My First Postcard for NPCW!

Iguana wish you a Happy National Postcard Week!
May 2-8, 2010
www.9teen87sPostcards.blogspot.com

the back reads:
NPCW

Hello,

The Iguana on the front is a photo I took in the Virgin Islands. My hubby and I were married in ... 1987 ... and we went there for our 20th wedding anniversary.

God Bless,

Brenda
9teen87s Postcards

1/100

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Everything you would need or want to know about National Post Card Week can be found on this site ...

http://npcw.multiply.com/

Make sure you check out the photos section as well! She has an amazing collection.

Cows of Borden Food Corporation

Elsie, Elmer and Beauregard are Traveling Representatives of Borden's Family of Fine Foods.

Elsie and Family in Person
Elmer is at the left, Elsie at right, and young Beauregard in his playpen. Elsie's dressing table, made of barrels, has milk bottle lamps and her toiletries include Tail Wave Set, Henna Fur Glaze and Meadow Mud Pack. Elmer's chair is made of actual wheels with barrel staves for rockers. The sampler over the mantel, Elsie did when she was just a heifer. The candle sticks are half ears of corn and the bed ladders have scythe-handles for supports. Books in the breakfront include The Farmer With Cold Hands, Animal Husbandry and Wifery, and Bulliver's Travels. Elsie's dressing table mirror is a large frying pan and the floor lamp is an old churn.

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Borden Food Corporation was an American producer food and beverages, non-food consumer products, and packaging. At one time, the company was the largest U.S. producer of dairy and pasta products. It was best known for its Borden Ice Cream, Meadow Gold milk, Creamette pasta, and Borden Condensed Milk brands.

After significant financial losses in the early 1990s, Borden was purchased in a leveraged buy-out in 1995 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). KKR divested itself of the Borden Food brands and shuttered operations in 2001.

Swanton and Toledo, Ohio

Beautiful Ohio

Happy Postcrossing from the small town of Swanton in northwest Ohio, USA!
Pictured are the University of Toledo Art Building, Swanton caboose, Toledo Museum of Art, Marblehead Lighthouse, Oak Openings Metropark in Swanton,
wintertime in my backyard, summer reflections, Ohio Map, Lake Erie.

postmarked in 2010 with a 28 cent stamp

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Postcrossing:
If you would like to trade postcards from around the world for free (only price is your postcard and stamp) check out my postcrossing link on the right.

Krsko, Slovenia

Krsko, Slovenia

postmarked in 2010 with a Slovenia flower stamp

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Krško is a town and municipality in eastern Slovenia. The town lies on the river Sava.

Slovenia's only nuclear power plant, the Krško Nuclear Power Plant lies to the southeast of the town.

Map of Washington State

Greetings From Beautiful Washington

Washington State
State Capital: Olympia
Admitted to Statehood: November 11, 1889
Highest Elevation: Mount Rainier (14,410 feet)

Illustration by J. Acoba

postmarked in 2010 with two vintage USA stamps:

Benjamin Franklin
Bicentennial 13 c
1776-1976

and

Airmail
1875-1949
The Universal Postal Union
15 cents

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Washington was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, and is the only U.S. state named after a president. Washington is commonly called Washington State to distinguish it from the District of Columbia. However, Washingtonians (residents of Washington) and many residents of neighboring states normally refer to the state simply as "Washington" while usually referring to the nation's capital as "Washington, D.C." or simply "D.C."

The Coca-Cola Bottle over the Years

The Coca-Cola Botttle

unused, bought in 2009 at the World of Coke in Las Vegas, Nevada

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The famous Coca-Cola bottle, called the "contour bottle" within the company, but known to some as the "hobble skirt" bottle, was created in 1915 by bottle designer Earl R. Dean. In 1915, the Coca-Cola Company launched a competition among its bottle suppliers to create a new bottle for the beverage that would distinguish it from other beverage bottles, "a bottle which a person could recognize even if they felt it in the dark, and so shaped that, even if broken, a person could tell at a glance what it was."

Earl R. Dean's original 1915 concept drawing of the contour Coca-Cola bottle
Chapman J. Root, president of the Root Glass Company, turned the project over to members of his supervisory staff, including company auditor T. Clyde Edwards, plant superintendent Alexander Samuelsson, and Earl R. Dean, bottle designer and supervisor of the bottle molding room. Root and his subordinates decided to base the bottle's design on one of the soda's two ingredients, the coca leaf or the kola nut, but were unaware of what either ingredient looked like. Dean and Edwards went to the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library and were unable to find any information about coca or kola. Instead, Dean was inspired by a picture of the gourd-shaped cocoa pod in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Dean made a rough sketch of the pod and returned back to the plant to show Mr. Root. He explained to Root how he could transform the shape of the pod into a bottle. Chapman Root gave Dean his approval.

Faced with the upcoming scheduled maintenance of the mold-making machinery, over the next 24 hours Dean sketched out a concept drawing which was approved by Root the next morning. Dean then proceeded to create a bottle mold and produced a small number of bottles before the glass-molding machinery was turned off.
Chapman Root approved the prototype bottle and a design patent was issued on the bottle in November, 1915. The prototype never made it to production since its middle diameter was larger than its base, making it unstable on conveyor belts. Dean resolved this issue by decreasing the bottle's middle diameter. During the 1916 bottler's convention, Dean's contour bottle was chosen over other entries and was on the market the same year. By 1920, the contour bottle became the standard for the Coca-Cola Company. Today, the contour Coca-Cola bottle is one of the most recognized packages on the planet..."even in the dark!".
As a reward for his efforts, Dean was offered a choice between a $500 bonus or a lifetime job at the Root Glass Company. He chose the lifetime job and kept it until the Owens-Illinois Glass Company bought out the Root Glass Company in the mid-1930s.

United States Pentagon

United States Pentagon

Aerial View of United States Pentagon, Potomac River and Washington, D.C.

Photo by R. Foulds

postmarked in 2010 with a USA 28 cent stamp

The sender writes:

The Pentagon is a very interesting building indeed! Above it you can see the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and almost the Capitol Building (the dome is cut off).

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The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia.

Designed by the American architect George Bergstrom (1876–1955), and built by general contractor John McShain, the building was dedicated on January 15, 1943, after ground was broken for construction on September 11, 1941.

The Pentagon is the world's largest office building by floor area, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (604,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (344,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground (plus two basement levels), and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 miles (28.2 km) of corridors. The Pentagon includes a five-acre (20,000 m²) central plaza, which is shaped like a pentagon.

On September 11, 2001, exactly 60 years since the building's groundbreaking, hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 was crashed into the western side of the Pentagon, killing 189 people, including 64 people aboard the plane and 125 working in the building.

Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida

An aerial view of Raymond James Stadium, home of the NFL's Tamp Bay Buccaneers and site of Superbowl XXXV.

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Raymond James Stadium was built primarily to replace the aging Houlihan's Stadium, formerly located adjacent to the property. It is located on the former site of the now–demolished Al Lopez Field. Once completed, the final cost of the stadium was $168.5 million, publicly financed. It was known as Tampa Community Stadium during construction, but the naming rights were bought for $32.5 million for a thirteen–year deal by St. Petersburg-based Raymond James Financial in June 1998. On April 27, 2006 an extension was signed to maintain naming rights through 2015.

The stadium officially opened on September 20, 1998, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Chicago Bears, 27–15.

The largest crowd ever recorded in Raymond James Stadium came on October 9, 2009, with U2’s 360º Tour. More than 72,000 people were in attendance.

Wedding Poem - Our Anniversary

(Today is hubby and my anniversary - we were married in '9teen87' ) :D

Congratulations to the Happy Couple

Gladly I congratulate
Both, upon this special date,
Happy husband - happy wife
So continue all your life.

postmarked in 1913 with Great Britain - 1/2 postage Revenue - halfpenny - stamp

Tomar, Portugal, Knights Templar

Tomar - Portugal

Diversos aspectos
Plusieurs aspects
Several aspects

(on the right is the Templar church (12th century) It is the main monument of the city and one of the most important in Portugal. Declared a Unesco World Heritage Site)

postmarked in 2010 with a machine stamp from Portugal

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Tomar also known in English as Thomar, is a city with a total population of 43,007 inhabitants.

It was founded as headquarters of the Knights Templar in Portugal in the 12th century and contains some of the most significant Templar monuments in Europe. Tomar was especially important in the 15th century when it was a centre of Portuguese overseas expansion under Henry the Navigator, the Grand Master of the Order of Christ, successor organization to the Templars in Portugal.

Myths of Tomar:

It is rumored that there is a secret passageway between the Santa Maria dos Olivais church and the Castle. It is also rumoured that a theatre called Paraíso is haunted, or that there is an old man living in its attic.
The Castle of Almourol nearby is where several bad events (deaths and tragic love stories) have taken place and is supposed to be haunted by a princess.

Constanta, Romania

Constanta - Constantza

Orasul vechi - The old Town

Foto: Nicu Triculescu, 2001

postmarked in 2010 with two great Romania 'Vases' stamps

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Constanţa is one of the oldest cities in Romania, founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanţa County and the largest city in the region.

The Port of Constanţa has an area of 39.26 km2 (15.16 sq mi) and a length of about 30 km (19 mi). It is the largest port on the Black Sea, and one of the largest ports in Europe.

Mount Rainier, Washington

Mt. Rainier Mirrored in Lake Spanaway, Wash.

Mt. Rainier, three miles in height, is an isolated extinct glacial volcano. Only mountain in the United states that shows all its form, sea level to the clouds. Tourists visit blown-out caverns, eternal snow banks, steam fissures, wonderful waterfalls, marvelous canyons, great forests, lakes and rivers that burst from the gigantic glaciers upon its sides and proclaim wonders surpassing the Alps. Flora renowned for 364 varieties of flowers, many thrust their heads through snow in June. The sight of "Rainier" from Seattle at 9 P.M. in summer season all aglow in gorgeous colors of our Northland twilight is a heavenly sight. It was discovered in 1792 by Capt. Geo. Vancouver, named by him for Rear Admiral Rainier; is 14,408 feet elevation; reached by Government Auto Roads through Big Tree Forest Reserve to New Paradise Inn, to "Camp of Clouds" in Paradise Valley.

This postcard is unused.

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Here it is at 'the Northland Twilight' .....

Mt. Rainier, Washington
Mount Rainier with full moon

Photo by Edward Nugent

This one is also unused but it has a date of 2008.
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Here is a card with some of the wild flowers .....

Mount Rainer National Park - Washington

Photo: Jacek Kociolek
This one is also from 2008.