Maximaphily

Or at least a post card showing Frederick III or Zacharius Ursinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism

MERRY CHRISTMAS !



VATICAN

Gerard van Honthorst ( Gherardo delle Notti )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_van_Honthorst

Adorazione del bambino



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Romania

The famous train Venice-Simplon Orient Express calling Sinaia Railway Station ( Romania)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice...ient_Express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaia...lway_station



First Day of Issue : BUCURESTI 06.09.2010

Joint issue stamps with Austria



Backside

Romania

50 Years , Space Exploration

Explorer 1, the first satellite of the United States



Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC) atop the first Juno booster from LC-26 at the Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1




First Day of Issue : Bucuresti 22.02.2008

Romania

UN - International Year of Astronomy -2009
http://www.iau.org/news/pressreleas...ail/iau0702/

Galileo Galilei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Eppur si muove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves







FDI illustrated postmark : * PRIMA ZI A EMISIUNII * BUCURESTI 06.05.2009


The stamp : 2009 EUROPA issue

US

The 1996 Summer Olympics , known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympics, took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics




FDI stamp and maximum card issued right on the opening day of the Games , on 19 July !

the Olympic Games centennial stamp pictures the "Discus Thrower" – the king of athletes among ancient Greeks – whose purposeful action is captured in Myron's 5th-century B.C. statue Discobolus.

http://www.mysticstamp.com/viewProd...asp?sku=3087

Wow, you MaxiFolk are a tough crowd :)

Re Heidelberg. I am reasonably certain that the spire (dead center in the image) belongs to the Heiliggeistkirche.

wiki: A solemn holy Mass was offered in the Heiliggeistkirche in 1386 to mark and bless the establishment of the University

wiki: the catechism's introduction credits the "entire theological faculty here" (at the University of Heidelberg)

Whether/not that last bit was false modesty on the part of the principal author - or an attempt to drag his colleagues along, kicking & screaming - I recognize that spire-church-university-authorship is a daisy chain, and will try to do better, next time.

Okay, here's next time:

I cannot speak to the cds (below), but the stamp & card seem concordant ... at least to an maximaphily outsider :(

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Romania

Fauna (I)





The Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani...Shepherd_Dog

FDI postmark : BUCURESTI 10.02.2012

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The Lipizzan or Lipizzaner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipizzan

FDI postmark : Bucuresti 29.05.2012

Romania

WWF issues - 2006

Eurasian spoonbill(Platalea leucorodia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_spoonbill



FDI illustrated postmark : PRIMA ZI A EMISIUNII BUCURESTI 20.10.2006

April, 1994, Girona (Catalonia). Josep Pla (Palafrugell, Catalonia, 1897-1981). Journalist and writter.

Bailiwick of Guernsey
ALDERNEY
1987



British steamer "BURTON" stranded on Grois Reef, Alderney, on 7th January 1911 . Was a Total Loss in Insurance terms

FDI postmark : 5 May 1987

more on this ship disaster here :

http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/S...sp?view=text

DDR - East (Communist) Germany




The father of communism Karl Marx

Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz),
postmark dated : -8.-7.76

The statue is still there, in Chemnitz , Germany.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...memorial.jpg

Romania- 2011

Locomotive , CFR 103 "ROMANIA" type B1-n2 Egst. 1869




Illustrated FDI postmark : BUCURESTI 26.08.2011

A great US President



Illustrated postmark : Dixon IL February 9 2006

Dixon is the boyhood home of the 40th president of the USA, Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born in nearby Tampico, Illinois and moved to Dixon when he was 9 years old. In his teen years, he lifeguarded along the banks of the Rock River. His family house is preserved at 816 South Hennepin Avenue, and authorized by Congress to become the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site. In 1984, during his first term as president, Reagan returned to Dixon to celebrate his 73rd birthday. He toured his boyhood residence and the city held a parade in his honor. ( Wikipedia)

US Lighthouses (I)



OLD CAPE HENRY LIGHTHOUSE , Virginia Beach, VA
Was the first lighthouse authorised by the first U.S. Congress. Built in 1791, it lighted the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay until 1881
http://www.us-lighthouses.com/displ...?LightID=122


Post Office's Postmark : VIRGINIA BEACH, VA , ATLANTIC STATION - June 23 2003


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin...ch,_Virginia

Post card photo by Bill Gaertner