#47: Second postcard from Argentina

Aconcagua

Football, plane and Eleodora Marenco stamps

Received from Rubén from San Juan. Please check out his blog here.

Argentina was the first country to adopt fingerprinting as a method of identification.

#69: Second postcard from Guinea

Map and people of Guinea

Tycho Brahe stamp

Received from Madeleine from Conakry.

Guinea was the first African French colony to gain it's independence.

#159: Fourth postcard from Saint Helena

Napoleon's tomb

Maggie stamp

Received from Kenneth from Saint Pauls.

Saint Helena is home to at least 40 endemic species of fauna.

#19: Third cover from Guyana

Muhamad Ali, year of the snake and football stamps

Received from the nice people at Postcardlocker. I've ordered three times from them.

Guyana was host to the largest ever cult mass suicide.

#166: First postcard from Canada

Map of Canada

An amazing array of stamps

Received from Denise from LaSalle.

Canada is bordered by the United States of America to the West and South.

#159: First postcard from Saint Helena

Fairy Tern

Maggie Thatcher stamp

Received from Eleanor from Saint Helena.

Saint Helena is between Angola, Ascension Island, Brazil and Tristan da Cunha.

#1: Third postcard from Cameroon

Bamenda

Stamp commemorating the visit of the Pope

Received from Rolf from Kumbo.

Cameroon comes from the Portuguese word meaning "River of Prawn".

#19: Second cover from Guyana

Jimmy Carter, Walt Disney and Caribbean Festival of Arts 2008 stamps

Received from the nice people at Postcardlocker in Guyana. I've ordered twice from them - great service, choice and price (plus you get Guyanese stamps on the package).

Guyana is Amerindian for "land of many waters".

#19: First cover from Guyana

Will & Kate, King William and Walt Disney stamps

Received from the nice people at Postcardlocker in Guyana. I've ordered twice from them - great service, choice and price (plus you get Guyanese stamps on the package).

Arthur Chung, the first president of Guyana, was the first ethnically Chinese head of state of a non-Asian country.

#19: First postcard from Guyana

Parrots

Elvis stamp

Received from the nice people at Postcardlocker in Guyana. I've ordered twice from them - great service, choice and price (plus you get Guyanese stamps on the package).

Guyana is bordered by Suriname to the east; by Brazil to the south and southwest; by Venezuela to the west; and by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.