Greek Ancient Temples

History time! :P I just wish these Greece postcards in my hands had already written on them a detailed yet summarized description behind these ancient temples so I don’t need to do further lookup on Wikipedia. But still, I am doing this.. coz I don’t have any information on the cards.. and historical stuff seem to be meaningless without details like dates, legendary stories and blablabla. So please bear with me as much as I bear with these readings okay.

From Marina.. or I can’t actually remember her name but this postcard was from before Postcrossing time, I was doing some souvenir+CD exchange with a Greek girl and she included some unwritten postcards (hence my ignorance about what and where this is before I look up on internet). So these architectural ruins belong to the Temple of Athena Pronaea in Delphi. Delphi is an archaeological site where once was an important site for the worship for the Greek god Apollo and it has been occupied since the Neolithic Period (5000-3000 BC)! This Athena Pronaea was built in dedication to goddess Athena in around 400 BC. On a side note, the archaeological site of Delphi was listed as Unesco World Heritage in 1987.

From Iinaj, she was in Greece for holiday. “Yassas!” is Hello in Greek. Though this structure look similar as Athena’s, they are actually located in another temple away in the Greek island of Aegina. It was built in the 500 BC for the worship for goddess Aphaia.

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Feliz Aniversario!

It’s one month before I turn 26 and I don’t quite feel like it… argh. Can someone stop the time pleaseee?? But looking at the brighter side, here’s another birthday wish I got a couple of years back.. from Brazil :) Yes the only thing I love about birthdays is people’s thoughtfulness, especially when you get many birthday cards from Postcrossers filling your mailbox so you can at least forget for a while the nightmare of getting older! ;)

Sent by Dine, June 2007

Sent by Dine, June 2007

From lovely Dine! It came as a Random Act of Smileness surprise and it did give a HUGE smile on my face!! Thanks Dine!! XD I love it when pretty dinasours are celebrating with me!

Sent by Dine

Sent by Dine

I guess I’ll just feature another card from Dine now that this one looks rather related. This cute comic illustration is entitled “Chico Violeiro” and showing two famous Brazilian cartoon characters: Chico Bento (Chuck Billy) and Rosinha (Rosy Lee). It was actually made as a parody to the painting “O Violeire” by Almeida Junior in 1899. Here’s a picutre of the original painting I found on internet:

ovioleire

Ain’t this lovely? :D:D Almeida Junior was the most important Brazilian realist painter from the 19th century and a major inspiration for the modern painters. His artworks mostly pictured rural figures, specially farmers and the countrymen that is a kind of a symbol of the rural areas in São Paulo.

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American windmills

I have Dutch windmills and I do have American windmills as well!

From Kalish. There are no fast moving rivers or other sources of energy on Cape Cod, Massachusetts so the early settlers built windmills to catch the ocean breezes. Ocean, breeze, windmill, flowers.. umm that sounds a wonderful atmosphere.

From Vickytoria74. Tulips and windmill, but this is not in Holland! :D This pretty tulip field is in Willamette Valley in Oregon.

From Jenny37. Now Texas windmill! This doesn’t look a traditional one, and it’s tall! I guess it was built tall to catch more breezes up above as these aren’t close to ocean.

From Jenny37. More Texas windmill! What a magnificent view this is, a bright sunset and nothing in sight at all but a windmill. And look at the horizon!

From Jenny37. And this windmill is finally working! (I hope I’m right, coz I see its blades rotating here!)

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