Monthly Fav. Surprise RR * May '24

Lets go back to May with these cards. I must say I'm quite happy with all of them.

 

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 Edith is a chocolate lover but as strange as it might be, I don't like chocolate that much. I don't totally dislike it but I'm not really crazy about it. I only eat milk chocolate with nuts and that's it.

NPS Photo / Tom Engberg

This card was a wonderful surprise and also a mistery. I realized immediately that this was a card from a missing UNESCO site but had no idea who sent it. Julia forgot to write her username and to mention that this was a MFS RR card. 

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks was the only site I was still missing from USA!! This is Ohio’s first World Heritage Site and the 25th World Heritage Listing in the United States.  

This property is a series of eight monumental earthen enclosure complexes built between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago along the central tributaries of the Ohio River. They are the most representative surviving expressions of the Indigenous tradition now referred to as the Hopewell culture. Their scale and complexity are evidenced in precise geometric figures as well as hilltops sculpted to enclose vast, level plazas. There are alignments with the cycles of the Sun and the far more complex cycles of the Moon. These earthworks served as ceremonial centres and the sites have yielded finely crafted ritual objects fashioned from exotic raw materials obtained from distant places. - in: https://whc.unesco.org

Look how beautiful these stamps are!! Joli Lin sent this card from China but this stupa is located in Sri Lanka. 

Thuparamaya stupa, in ancient city of Anuradhapura, is the first Buddhist temple to be built in the country, after the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka.  It dates back to the 247-207 BC.

Church Ensemble at Korovniki, located in the part of Yaroslavl historically known as Korovnitskaya Sloboda, comprises two red-brick churches with green domes similar in style.  It is considered one of the best examples of the Yaroslavl-style of architecture. 

The larger of the two churches is St John Chrysostom’s Church which was built between 1649 and 1654. Attached to each side of the church are two side-altars which are topped with tent-domes. Its window frames are decorated with small ceramic tiles. 

The neighbouring Our Lady of Vladimir Church is smaller in size and serves as a winter church meaning that it is heated and therefore open in winter. It was completed in 1669 and in style it is very similar to St John Chrysostom’s Church but without the two side-altars. In between the two churches is a tent-dome bell tower which was erected in the 1680s. - in: https://rusmania.com

Card sent by Nataliya.