Maori Warriors from New Zealand with their Tongues Sticking Out

Kia Ora (Hello) from New Zealand

Maori Warriors in a traditional challenging stance.  Haka is an integral part of formal and official welcome ceremonies for distinguished visitors, serving to impart a sense of importance to the occasion.

This postcard is postmarked in 2012 with a New Zealand stamp.

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A haka is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge from the Māori people of New Zealand.

Various actions are used in the course of a performance, including facial contortions such as showing the whites of the eyes and sticking out the tongue. The hands, arms, legs, feet, voice, eyes, tongue and the body as a whole combine to express courage, annoyance, joy or other feelings relevant to the purpose of the occasion.

One Way to Pick Your Nose ...

Baby cow from Finland with his tongue up his nose

2008

Albert Einstein Sticking Out His Tongue

Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue
postcard is from 2009

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Albert Einstein, (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.

Baby Boy Sticking Out His Tongue in Belgium

Heb de zomer in Mijn Bol!!
(I think it is: I spent my summer in Mijn Bol!!!)
2010

White Cat with a Purple Tongue

What a fun postcard!  I love the cat's purple tongue.
2011