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Sunday, April 24, 2011

! PPC (picture postcard / viewcard) mailed on 18 OCT 1907 (?) by an American (?) in Bucharest, Romania to Miss Amy Kingman in Providence, Rhode Island, USA! Also, I show you a maxicard with Vlad Dracula and Bucuresti (Bucharest)

Bucuresti [Bucharest]...Biserica Bucur [The Bucur Church]

Read about this church:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucur_Church

Handwritten message on the picture side:
 "This church according to legend was built by a shepherd named Bucur on the place where Bucuresti now stands -- Bucur, Bucuresti - see?"


What do YOU understand from this handwriting in English?
[Click, then click again - I scan such old postcards at 300dpi!]
I decipher: 
I'm going to write soon. 
Please do you so too [?].
Father hasn't been able to come on...knee [?]...of all my letter-writing...
"Guilty but recommended to mercy".

The stamp that I bring into spotlight today, "for the whole world to see" :) is the one below, showing (among other things) an image of the historical document that attests in 1459 the existence of the citadel of Bucharest, today's capital of Romania.
How did YOUR neck of the woods locality look like, some 500 years ago, if at all?
:)
Whose portrait is that, next to the document?
No idea?
Aw, come on!...:)


"Bucharest's history alternated periods of development and decline from the early settlements of the Antiquity and until its consolidation as capital of Romania late in the 19th century.
First mentioned as "the Citadel of București" in 1459, it became a residence of the 
The real Dracula = not a vampire.
Much worse: a strict enforcer of the death penalty.
Those were The Dark Ages, remember?
Not The Democratic Ages, or The Civilized Ages, like today, when everybody in the world behaves, and there's peace, love and harmony all over the world.*
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*Certain exceptions apply.
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3 comments:

  1. Christine H.April 24, 2011 at 11:11 PM

    Thanks to your blog, I am now quite familiar with Vlad. I just hope I get on Jeopardy and am lucky enough to get a Vlad question. Or maybe I'll be on Cash Cab and I'll call you if I need a mobile shout-out!
    As for what my neck of the woods looked like 500 years ago - unspoiled wilderness.

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  2. viridianApril 25, 2011 at 7:28 AM

    Fatehr has a sprained knee, but that's all I can add I think.

    V

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  3. PostcardyApril 25, 2011 at 2:16 PM

    Your last letter was received July 21.! I'm going to write soon. Please do you so too. Father hasn't been able to some over yet because of a sprained knee - & that fact has been the cause of all my letter-writing-negligence. "Guilty but recommended to mercy"

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