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Ssserpent Sssaturday

 The year of the snake continues with many twists and turns, and it is only March!

Stay calm and enjoy great mail instead.

Fafa sent me this great postcard

Accompanied by this beautiful lunar new year stamp.

Merci!

Alice and Friends

 Today's Sunday Stamps theme is famous women.

Eva sent me two women on this envelope made from a calendar page.

The women featured are:

María Bernaldo de Quirós Bustillo was the first Spanish woman to obtain a pilot's license - in 1928. You can read a little bit more about this aviation pioneer on her wikipedia page. Iberia airlines named one of their planes after her.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira was a social activist, a feminist, and writer. She was a prodigy who coud read at the age of two, spoke four languages by the age of eight, and finished law school at seventeen. Sadly she died aged eighteen, shot to death by her own mother. You can read more about her unconventional life on her wikipedia page. 

Although fictional, Alice from Lewis Carroll's novels is even more famous.

The third stamp features the date 8 March, International Women's Day.

For links to more famous women on stamps, visit See it on a Postcard.

Ohio

 Today's postcard hunt prompt is maps of states/provinces/counties.

Here's an Ohio map postcard I've sent out in the past.

For links to more map postcards, visit See it on a Postcard

Jaar van die slang

 This great internationaal stamp from Nederland arrived, courtesy of Heleen, accompanied with nice selvage to celebrate jaar van die slang. Included are the Chinese characters for snake.

In contrast, the postcard is all in English, the language of Postcrossing.

For links to more stamps with no English words on them, head over to See it on a Postcard.

Pictorial landmarks

 The postcard hunt theme for today is pictorial landmarks on maps.

This is a really small part of a map, with a drawing of my favorite independent book shop. 

For more links to maps with this theme, head over to See it on a Postcard

Flags

 The theme for Sunday Stamps is flags.

A couple of Dutch stamps sent by Heleen.

The German and US flags vs the Dutch lion on Football/Soccer World cup stamps:

And a stamp featuring the flag of Gelderland, one of the provinces of the Netherlands.

You can see the blue, yellow and black flag at wikipedia. The words of the Gelderland anthem 'Ons Gelderland'(Our Gelderland) are featured on the stamp.

 Explore the links at See it on a Postcard for more philatelic flags.