Monday, November 14, 2011

KC Publications Home Page - I love their wonderful large books with meaningful text and gorgeous pictures! I show you today my non-traditional MAXICARD that I created with a page detached from the EVERGLADES In Pictures book: notice how I juxtaposed the egret from the selvage of a stamp with the egret from the book picture

KC Publications Home Page KC Publications Home Page- I love their wonderful large books with meaningful text and gorgeous pictures! I show you today my non-traditional MAXICARD that I created with a page detached from the EVERGLADES In Pictures book: notice how I juxtaposed the egret from the selvage of a stamp with the egret from the book picture.






==========
Happy Blue Monday! (meme)


Sunday, November 13, 2011

Women's HIGH JUMP, in athletism ("track and field athletics"). I show you a MAXICARD from ROMANIA with the FOSBURY style, the most efficient. A less efficient style was a variation of the SCISSORS technique, but that's what took the world record from 1,75m to 1,91m. "Iolanda Balaş (Romanian pronunciation: [joˈlanda ˈbalaʃ], later Söter, Hungarian: Balázs Jolán, born 12 December 1936 in Timișoara) is a former Romanian athlete of Hungarian descent, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever." She won 2 Olympic Gold medals, and broke the world record 14 times. Undefeated in 140 consecutive competitions, from 1958 to 1967

Women's HIGH JUMP, in athletism ("track and field athletics"). I show you a MAXICARD from ROMANIA with the FOSBURY style, the most efficient. A less efficient style was a variation of the SCISSORS technique, but that's what took the world record from 1,75m to 1,91m. "Iolanda Balaş (Romanian pronunciation: [joˈlanda ˈbalaʃ], later Söter, Hungarian: Balázs Jolán, born 12 December 1936 in Timișoara) is a former Romanian athlete of Hungarian descent, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever." She won 2 Olympic Gold medals, and broke the world record 14 times. Undefeated in 140 consecutive competitions, from 1958 to 1967.


1.74 m Thelma Hopkins (GBR)5 May 1956Belfast[1]
1.75 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)14 July 1956Bucharest[1]
1.76 m Mildred McDaniel (USA)1 December 1956Melbourne[1]
1.76 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)13 October 1957Bucharest[1]
1.77 m Zheng Fengrong (CHN)17 November 1957Beijing[1]
1.78 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)7 June 1958Bucharest[1]
1.80 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)22 June 1958Cluj-Napoca[1]
1.81 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)31 July 1958Poiana Brasov[1]
1.82 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)4 October 1958Bucharest[1]
1.83 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)18 October 1958Bucharest[1]
1.84 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)21 September 1959Bucharest[1]
1.85 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)6 June 1960Bucharest[1]
1.86 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)10 July 1960Bucharest[1]
1.87 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)15 April 1961Bucharest[1]
1.88 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)18 June 1961Warsaw[1]
1.90 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)8 July 1961Budapest[1]
1.91 m Iolanda Balaş (ROM)16 July 1961Sofia[1]
1.92 m Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT)4 September 1971Vienna[1]

Her last world record remained unbeaten for 10 years! (1961 to 1971)

She was born in Timișoara, Romania. 
Close to Freidorf, where Johnny Weissmuller (the best Tarzan actor) was born.
He was an even MORE domineering sports champion.
As an amateur swimmer, HE NEVER LOST A RACE!
"Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal [water polo]. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man Tarzan in films, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive, ululating Tarzan yell is still often used in films."
============
Happy Sunday Stamps meme!


Saturday, November 12, 2011

Traditional maxicard with the ROSEATE SPOONBILL, postcard image from the EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, FLORIDA, USA. "The Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, (sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and the Gulf Coast of the United States" -Wikipedia


"The Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja, (sometimes placed in its own genus Ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in coastal regions of the CaribbeanCentral AmericaMexico, and the Gulf Coast of the United States."

The pictorial postmark from that maxicard...tell me about it!
What! You just can't see it?
I thought so...
Here:

===========
Happy Pink Saturday! (still open on Sunday!)

Please visit "Pretty in pink"/ "Show us your pink" [objects, that is :)] meme here:



Followers

Labels

aircraft (2) Albania (3) Angola (2) Antarctica (5) architecture (31) Arctic (4) Argentina (1) art (6) Australia (12) Austria (5) Azerbaijan (1) bat (2) bear (10) beaver (1) Belarus (3) Belgium (2) Benin (1) best friends (48) BFF (51) Bhutan (2) BIOT (1) bird (45) bison (7) Botswana (1) Brazil (1) British Virgin Islands (1) Brunei Darussalam (1) buffalo (3) Bulgaria (6) Burkina Faso (1) Burundi (1) butterfly (2) cactus (3) Cameroon (1) Canada (4) cat (15) chamois (1) cheetah (3) Chile (1) China (23) clouded leopard (2) cock (1) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (1) cool (263) cosmos (5) cover (17) cow (3) coyote (1) Croatia (3) Cuba (2) customized postage (98) cute (79) Czech Republic (3) Czechoslovakia (1) Dahomey (1) deer (8) deltiology (108) Denmark (2) Disney (5) dog (17) dolphin (2) dorincard (327) Dracula (8) dragon (2) educational (299) EFO = errors freaks and oddities (5) Egypt (4) elephant (6) Equatorial Guinea (1) Estonia (4) Ethiopia (1) Falkland Islands (1) famous (74) fauna (127) feline (39) Fiji (1) Finland (8) fish (3) flu (2) fox (3) France (7) frog (13) funny (40) gazelle (3) Germany (7) Ghana (1) giraffe (2) Greece (1) Guinea (1) Guinea-Bissau (2) Guyana (1) H1N1 (2) Haiti (3) hare (4) hippopotamus (2) holidays (7) Honduras (1) Hongkong (6) horse (9) Hungary (2) Iceland (1) India (5) Indonesia (3) insect (2) Iran (1) Ireland (3) Israel (6) Italy (2) Japan (7) Kampuchea (2) Kenya (3) Korea (1) Kyrgyzstan (1) Laos (1) lemur (1) leopard (4) Letonia (1) Liberia (3) Libya (2) Liechtenstein (4) lion (3) Lithuania (2) love (17) Luxemburg (1) lynx (3) Macau (2) Macedonia (2) Madagascar (1) Mailer's Postmark Permit (22) Malawi (1) Malaysia (5) Maldives (1) Malta (1) mammal (86) map (12) marcophily (183) Marshall Islands (1) maxi card (333) maxicard (335) maximaphily (334) maximum card (334) MC (135) Michael Jackson (10) Moldova (3) Mongolia (1) monkey (12) Montserrat (1) Mozambic (1) Muhammad Ali (3) Namibia (6) Netherlands (3) Nevis (1) New Zealand (2) Nicaragua (1) Norfolk Island (1) Norway (1) Obama (2) Olympics (2) opossum (1) orca (2) ox (5) P-stamp (33) Pakistan (1) panda (23) Papua-New Guinea (1) Paraguay (1) personalised stamps (95) personalized stamp (1) personalized stamps (105) philately (250) Philippines (2) pig (4) plants (13) Poland (5) polar bear (7) Portugal (2) postcards (242) postmarks (234) Princeton (1) rabbit (4) ram (4) rat (1) reptile (19) rhinoceros (5) Romania (63) rooster (1) Russia (10) Rwanda (1) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8) Sao Tome and Principe (1) Senegal (1) Serbia (2) Slovakia (2) Slovenia (1) snake (3) snow leopard (1) soccer (5) Somalia (1) South Africa (23) Spain (9) sports (8) squirrel (3) stamp collecting (328) stamps (325) Swahili (2) Swaziland (2) Sweden (1) swine (4) Taiwan ROC (7) Thailand (1) tiger (30) trains (6) Tristan da Cunha (1) Turkey (3) Uganda (3) UK (4) Ukraine (4) UNESCO WHS (3) United Arab Emirates (4) United Kingdom (4) USA (256) USSR (1) Venezuela (1) Vietnam (3) whale (5) wild (100) wildebeest (2) wildlife (170) wolf (10) WWF (73) year (54) Yemen (2) Zambia (1) zebra (2)

Top 30 Stamp Collecting Blogs, by guidetoartschools.com

#2:
"Dorincard: Blogger Dorin C is a stamp and postcard fanatic, and luckily he's more than pleased to write prolifically and charmingly about his obsession. He has a particular bent for stamps with wild mammals on them, but his blog demonstrates an affinity for stamps of all forms and backgrounds, as long as they offer a special narrative that's worth sharing with his readers.


  • Source: http://www.guidetoartschools.com/library/best-stamp-collecting-blogs#ixzz1KirbuA4p
    "

    Some feedback received about me and my blog here

    [DORIN'S NOTE: There are over 100 million websites.]

    From alexa.com traffic rank site

    "There are 1,699,250 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Dorincard.blogspot.com.
    About 43% of visitors to the site come from France, where it has attained a traffic rank of 152,077.
    About 80% of visits to the site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces).
    Dorincard.blogspot.com's visitors view an average of 1.5 unique pages per day.
    Visitors to the site spend roughly two minutes on each pageview and a total of three minutes on the site during each visit."



    inkling (Enthusiast)

    The best use of this site is Other.

    Likes
    • Good content

    Comments:
    Postcards and stamps, mainly featuring mammals and birds but Dorincard also has other creations
    and interests he likes to share.
    His enthusiasm for Maximum cards (a postcard and a similar themed stamps sent through the
    postal system) shines through.
    He shows how he gets the right card, stamp and postmark together.
    Visiting his site you will also learn things about the natural world told with a dry sense of humour,
    possibly with a play on words, and a unique style of headings.
    Topical and informative both for the enthusiast and casual visitor.
    • Was this useful?
    • Yes
    • No
    • Flag
    • 1 out of 1 person found this review useful.



    1 Review
    Global 1,699,251
    Alexa Traffic Rank
    France Flag 152,077
    Traffic Rank in FR

    28 Sites Linking In "


    Wedding gifts from Zazzle

    Wedding>