Statue Of Liberty

Sender: NancyWag

In 1984, the Statue of Liberty was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Sunken Cemetery

Sender: Ritz

Text on Card: Sunken Cemetery, Barangay Bonbo, Catarman, Camiguin. A huge cross was installed in 1982 to mark the communities cemetery that sank during the eruption of Mount Vulcan Daan in 1871. Every November, a fluvial procession is held in honour of the watery graves of their forefathers and thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest.

I read that the whole of Camiguin, with its cemetery, was sunk under the sea and that the large cross was built on solidified lava to mark the site. Now, it is one of the world's most unique diving sites.

Monument to Peter The First

Sender: *marina*

Monument to Peter The First

It looks like he is on a ship which is on top of many other ships!

Beautiful stamps!

Monument to Nezalezhnist

Sender: Neitel

Kyiv. Nezalezhnist Square. Monument to Nezalezhnist 2001. Sculptor: A. Kushch

Fort Sumter

Sender: SouthernBelle

Text on card: Fort Sumter National Monument - Aerial of Fort Sumter ca. 1861. Perspective shows the interior parade ground, the wharf, barracks and officers' quarters to be viewed over the 50 foot walls. The left face in the foreground is cutaway to show gun emplacements.

Taras Shevchenko

Sender: Prott

Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) is a great Ukrainian poet, artist and thinker. His writings formed the foundation for the modern Ukrainian Literature and he is also considered the founder of the modern written Ukrainian language. After Ukraine gained its independence (following the collapse of the Soviet Union), some Ukrainian cities replaced their statues of Lenin with statues of this great poet. I read that this monument is 16.5-metre high, inclusive of a 5.5 metre bronze statue of Shevchenko on a round pedestal of raw labradorite (leldspar) encircled by various levels of smaller pedestal featuring 16 bronze figures symbolising Ukrainian history and Taras Shevchenko's poetry. It was erected on March 24, 1935. 

Below is one of his many poems:-

Don't Envy

Don't envy, friend, a wealthy man:
A rich man's life is spent
Without a friend or faithful love --
Those things he has to rent.
Don't envy, friend, a man of rank,
His power's based on force.
Don't envy, too, a famous man:
The man of note well knows
The crowd's acclaim is not for him,
But for that thorny fame
He wrought with labour and with tears
So they'd be entertained.
But then, when young folk gather 'round,
So fine they are and fair
You'd think it's heaven, -- ah, but look:
See evil stirring there ...

Don't envy anyone my friend,
For if you look you'll find
That there's no heaven on the earth,
No more than in the sky.

(4th October, 1845)

Prott wrote that this particular monument to Taras Shevchenko is known as one of the most beautiful in her city, Kharkov. And that when they celebrate Independence Day, some guys try to climb on top of it, generally unsuccessfully, because of their state of inebriety! 

Complexo Viario Ayrton Senna, Sao Paolo

Sender: Fernanda
Views of a tunnel in Sao Paolo named "Complexo Viario Ayrton Senna" built after the death of Ayrton Senna, a Brazillian race driver (March 21, 1960 – May 1, 1994). He is regarded as one of the greatest drivers of all time, winning the World Champion three times prior to his devastating death. 


I really love Formula One and Ayrton Senna was my idol. Quoting him, “I felt as though I was driving in a tunnel. The whole circuit became a tunnel... I had reached such a high level of concentration that it was as if the car and I had become one. Together we were at the maximum. I was giving the car everything - and vice versa.”

Stamps of trumpets and commercial bags.