Basketball Diaries

from "Those People Who Died"

Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine


Punk, New Wave poet Jim Carroll was an aspiring and potentially great basketball player who could have been a professional star until the toil of drug use crumbled his dreams- thus the moral lesson of "Basketball Diaries" which became a launching movie for Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Conquistador of Manila

                         MANILA- INTRAMUROS DISTRICT 2011

Martín de Goiti (1534–1574) founded the City of Manila in the Philippines when he subdued the combined native forces of the Islamic rulers of Manila (Maynilad) - Rajah Sulaiman III,  Rajah Lakan Dula and Rajah Sulaiman II. He marched his troops towards Tondo, the heart of Manila. Subsequently, they  defeated the thousand-strong warriors that skirmished when them in Tondo, establishing a foothold settlements.The Spanish conquistadors, then, constructed Fort Santiago, a military and trading outpost that still exists at present.

Matthias Grünewald

                                           Gütersloh

       

                                   Germany - Gütersloh 2013



Matthias Grünewald 
German Renaissance Painter

Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani

Barcelona - District of Sants-Montjuïc 2013

Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani (Joan Miró Foundation)

Fundació Joan Miró is very beautiful museum that houses various important works by one of Catalunya's best modern artists- Joan Miró. The building is located on top of Montjuic overlooking the vast cityscape of Barcelona. Accessible by a funicular train or by strenuous walk up the hill via stairways, the museum is part of a vast complex of urban nature park, historical fort, an Olympic Stadium, and other world-class museums.

The World of the Mayans

Cancún- Chichen Itza 2004

Chichen Itza holds the largest mayan city-temple complex in the world. It was both a commercial and  a religious site where Mayans from all over the region come and go for ritual pilgrimage and merchant exchanges.

ANDRES BONIFACIO: THE GREAT FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARY

                              Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Andres Bonifacio 
                                              Sheetlet of 8 with Middle Tab Logo

          Rt to Left: Emilio Jacinto  Procopio Bonifacio Gregoria De Jesus Andres Bonifacio

Wine Country - Portugal- Full Sheet

Peso De Regua (2013)

Vineyard cultivation and  wine making 

Native Philippines

Biliran Province (2013)

Ancient Filipino scripts- Kulitan , Baybayin, Hanunó’o, Buhid

                                             Hingyon Municipality (2013)

                                   Real mountain bikes for mountain people

Philippine Folk Singers

                                              Cotabato - Filipino Folk Singers 2013


    Cotabato City derived its name from Fort of Stone ( Kuta = Fort and Bato = Stone)

      P40 - Florante
      P15    Grace Nono
      P20   Cesar "Saro" Bañares
      P 30      Bayang Barrios

      

Barcelona - Badalona

Badalona- Festival of Guitars 2012

Badalona is an ancient settlement founded by the Romans. It was called Baetulo.

ARGENTINA DINOSAUR STAMPS

                                               

Argentina - Formosa Province 

Struthiomimus sedens
Rebbachisaurus garasbae
Harpymimus okladnikovi
Garudimimus brevipes

BRAZILIAN LOCALS-BIRD ISSUES

Brazil State of Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit)

Philesturnus carunculatus
Butorides virescens
Wilsonia pusilla
Plegadis falcinellus

Brazil State of Paraná

Merops apiaster
Nonnula rubecula
Dendroica coronata
Aegithalos caudatus

Brazil State of Roraima

Megalaima haemacephala
Luscinia megarhynchos
Spelaeornis badeigularis
Cyanistes caeruleus

Brazil State of Acre

Lophornis magnificus
Ramphodon naevius
Eupetomena macroura
Augastes lumachella

China and Dinosaurs

DINOSAUR STAMPS

China - Anhui Province 安徽省

Beishanlong grandis
Pelecanimimus polydon
Bruhathkayosaurus matleyi
Lambeosaurus lambei

Gerardus Mercator

Duisburg 

                                Germany - Duisburg

                          500 Year Anniversary of  Gerardus (Gerhard) Mercator 2012