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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania is a state in the northeastern of USA and it was nicknamed as the Keystone state, because it was located in the center among the original “Thirteen Colonies” which were the states of British America in 1783. OK nevermind the boring history fact.. Hershey’s chocolate is originated from here! Hershey was originally named Derry Church, Pennsylvania. It was renamed Hershey in 1906 because of its growing popularity of the yummy chocolate! Hmm but I don’t have a postcard from Hershey.. yet. Oh and if you must know, Philadelphia used to be the capital of the United States between 1790 and 1800.

From Rissyrissy. I don’t have information on the card about where in Pennsylvania is this country view with cornfield is located.. but look at the balloons!! This is surely a lovely postcard that Rissy sent me for my 24th birthday! :D

From Zmrzlina. This is the Fort Roberdeau, which was constructed in 1778, under General Daniel Ruoberdeau’s supervision and sits on 47 acres near Altoona. It’s also known as the “Lead Mine Fort” as it protected mining operations for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war. Well nowadays people like forts as there are usually places to picnic :)

From Krhocevar. After the country views, now comes the big city. Pittsburgh is the second largest city in Pennsylvania. And this is the Golden Triangle where the Allegheny and Monogahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio River, hence the largest inland port in the US! There are over 700 bridges crossing these rivers and valleys. I always love waterfront cities like this.. especially on this postcard with the reflection of those buildings in the water! And look at the fountain! Pretty, isn’t it?

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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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Chinese illustrations

Here are some postcards from China with significant Oriental illustrations

From Wespe. This pretty card came as my 23rd birthday card!!!!!!!!!!! XD Wespe was one of the earliest Postcrossers who were thoughtful enough to surprise me with birthday wishes.. I was so lucky!

From Mcdh. This postcard was issued by the State Postal Bureau of PR China, and this card shows a set of traditional dress for the Chinese New Year.

From Moderntime. This is a lovely art, isn’t it? Sorry for this blur scanned image, though. This card came from a set of postcards The Twelve Ladies of Jinling City and apparently this lovely lady named Shi Xiangyun arrived in my hands to be part of my collection! She was a daughter of Shi’s, a big family, who lost her parents during her childhood and grew up by her uncle’s support. She loved poetry so much that she was called a ‘mad poetry lover’. A tragic ending came after her marriage and it was pictured like “the clouds lifted over Gaotang Temple, and the water dried up in the Xiang River.” Hmm… deep.

From Moderntime. I guess this is the only postcard I received came with stamps put at the picture side of postcard!! Awesome!! How can I put this, now it makes the card more vintage (you see, I have come across many vintage postcards having a stamp on the picture side) and also maxi postcards. Anyway, this is from Hong Kong comic Sweet and Gentle dates back in 1970.

From Mcdh. Another postcard issued by the Chinese State Postal Bureau, this illustration with a kid playing kites during springtime.

From Jessica. This colorful card is entitled “Peacock spread the wings”

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