Wednesday, October 28, 2009

FDC from Japan/FDC du Japon

Naruto


Naruto (NARUTO -ナルト-, romanized as NARUTO) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.

The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Currently, the manga is still being serialized with forty-seven tankōbon volumes released so far. The manga was later adapted into an anime, which was produced by Studio Pierrot and Aniplex. It premiered across Japan on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network and the anime satellite television network Animax on October 3, 2002. The first series lasted 220 episodes, while Naruto: Shippuden, a sequel to the original series, has been airing since February 15, 2007. In addition to the anime series, Studio Pierrot has developed six movies for the series and several original video animations (OVAs). Other types of merchandise include light novels, video games and trading cards developed by several companies.

Viz Media has licensed the manga and anime for North American production. Viz has been publishing the series in their Shonen Jump magazine, and as well as the indidividual volumes. The anime series began airing in the United States and Canada in 2005, and later in the United Kingdom and Australia in 2006 and 2007 respectively. The films, as well as most OVAs from the series, have also been released by Viz, with the first film premiering in cinemas. The first DVD volume of Naruto: Shippuden will be released by Viz in North America on September 29, 2009.

Serialized in Viz's Shonen Jump magazine, Naruto has become one of the company's best-selling manga series. As of volume 36, the manga has sold over 71 million copies in Japan. The English adaptation of the series has also appeared in the USA Today Booklist several times and volume 11 won the Quil Award in 2006. Reviewers from the series have praised the balance between fighting and comedy scenes, as well as the characters' personalities, but have criticized it for using standard shōnen plot elements.

Naruto ( ナルト, Naruto) est un shōnen manga de Masashi Kishimoto, dont il existe également une adaptation animée. La série relate les aventures d'un jeune ninja, Naruto Uzumaki, qui cherche à être reconnu par tous en devenant Hokage, c’est-à-dire le ninja le plus puissant de son village, Konoha en l'occurrence. Le manga fut publié pour la première fois au Japon en novembre 1999 dans le magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump de l'éditeur Shūeisha. La version française de Naruto est publiée par Kana depuis 2002, avec un retard d'approximativement 5 tomes sur la publication japonaise[1]. Produit par Studio Pierrot et Aniplex, l'anime a commencé à être diffusé au Japon le 3 octobre 2002, sur la chaîne TV Tōkyō. En France, la série est arrivée sur Game One le 2 septembre 2006 ainsi que sur NT1 et sur Cartoon Network depuis la rentrée 2007 et depuis la rentrée 2008 en Belgique sur Club RTL. Game One diffuse aussi depuis le 2 septembre 2008 la seconde série de Naruto : Naruto Shippūden.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

FDC from Austria/FDC de L'Autriche;FDC from Germany/FDC de l'Allemagne

20th anniversary of the opening of the border between Hungary and Austria/
Le 20ème anniversaire de l'ouverture de la frontière entre la Hongrie et l'Autriche/
20 Jahre Grenzöffnung Ungarn-Österreich/
A magyar-osztrák határnyitás 20. évfordulója





The present joint issue, “20th anniversary of the opening of the border between Hungary and Austria”, is the commemoration by the post offices of Hungary (Magyar Posta), Germany and Austria of one of the most important political events of recent history. The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 after decades of separation led to permanent changes in and for Europe, not only from a political point of view but also in terms of the economy and society.

By opening its borders to the west precisely 20 years ago, Hungary made a major contribution to a new and united Europe. This historic revolution was the result of months of a process of change in which the previous political system of the East, characterised by rigid Soviet communism, was broken up. The region around Vienna, as so often in history, played a major role as the gate to a new Europe.

After the Hungarian border troops had begun as early as April 1989 to demolish the Iron Curtain at four points, initially as a trial and under strict secrecy, events followed thick and fast throughout Europe. On 27 June, near Sopron, a highly symbolic moment occurred when the foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria, Gyula Horn and Alois Mock, jointly cut through the barbed wire. In view of the whole world, the Iron Curtain fell, and the end of a divided Europe came one historic step closer.

There is no doubt that the “Pan European picnic” (an intercultural dialogue forum) had a huge inner-political influence on the Németh government in Budapest. Initially hesitating to open the border entirely to the citizens of East Germany, a few days later it nevertheless resolved to do so, and at a meeting between the Hungarian Prime Minister and the German chancellor Helmut Kohl on August 25, 1989, it was agreed that Hungary neither could nor would hold back the refugees from East Germany any longer. (One day before, the Hungarian government had approved the exit to West Germany of more than 100 GDR citizens who had taken refuge in the West German embassy in Budapest.) On September 10, 1989, Foreign Minister Gyula Horn finally announced that the border would be opened at midnight. East German tourists were thus free to leave for Germany via Austria. “This removed the first brick in the Berlin Wall,” is how Helmut Kohl later described the importance of the opening of the Hungarian border.

A few weeks later, President Mátyas Szürös proclaimed the new democratic Republic of Hungary. The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989.

Die Briefmarke erscheint als motivgleiche Gemeinschaftsausgabe mit Ungarn und Österreich und erinnert an die Öffnung der ungarisch-österreichischen Grenze, die ein entscheidender Impuls für die revolutionären Vorgänge im Herbst 1989 war. Angefangen hatte es 1989 pragmatisch: Da den Ungarn die Renovierung des Signalzauns zu Österreich zu teuer war, begannen sie am 2. Mai 1989 mit dessen Abbau. In einem symbolischen Akt zerschnitten der ungarische Außenminister Gyula Horn und sein österreichischer Amtskollege Alois Mock am 27. Juni 1989 ein Stück Stacheldraht in der Nähe der Grenzstadt Sopron. Nun hofften viele DDR-Bürger, die in Ungarn Urlaub machten, in den Westen flüchten zu können. Die DDR aber bestand gegenüber Ungarn auf Regelungen, die die Ausreise untersagten und die Auslieferung von Flüchtlingen verlangten. Das diplomatische Problem zwischen der DDR, Ungarn und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland entwickelte sich bald zur Flüchtlingskrise, in der hunderte Menschen die grüne Grenze nach Österreich überquerten. Am 11. September 1989 öffnete Ungarn dann die Grenze zu Österreich. Die Flüchtlingskrise wurde für die DDR im Oktober zur Systemkrise. Am 3. November 1989 schließlich gestattete die DDR ihren Bürgern die direkte Ausreise aus der CSSR in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Sechs Tage später fiel die Mauer...

1989. május 2-án megkezdődött a magyar-osztrák határon lévő, az illegális határátlépések megakadályozására épített műszaki zár lebontása. Augusztus 19-én több ezren vettek részt Sopron térségében, a határ közelében rendezett páneurópai pikniken, ahol a határok nélküli Európa megteremtését sürgették. A magyar kormány 1989. szeptember 10-i bejelentését követően, 1989. szeptember 11-től a Magyarországon tartózkodó és hazatérni nem kívánó keletnémet állampolgárok kiutazhattak olyan más országokba, amelyek hajlandóak számukra a be- vagy átutazást engedélyezni.
A határnyitásként ismert, történelemformáló esemény 20. évfordulóján Magyarország, Ausztria és Németország közös bélyeget bocsát forgalomba. A kibocsátás érdekessége, hogy a bélyeg mindhárom országban Benedek Imre, magyar bélyegtervező grafikusművész tervei alapján valósult meg. A kék színű háttérben a bélyegek főmotívuma az eseményre utaló jubileumi szám, amelynek grafikai képét – a sorsfordító határnyitásra utaló konkrét üzenettel kiegészítve – a tervezőművész a három ország nemzeti zászlóinak színeiből komponálta.
Az alkalmi boríték grafikáján térképrészlet és a három ország nemzeti zászlói láthatók, az alkalmi bélyegző a határátkelést idéző stilizált rajz. A három ország bélyegének együttes bemutatása céljával reprezentatív kivitelezésű emléklap is készült, melyen alkalmi bélyegzéssel szerepelnek az újdonságok. Az emléklap előlapját – az alkalmi boríték grafikájához illeszkedve – térképrészlet és zászlók díszítik.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

FDC from North Korea/FDC de la Corée du Nord

35th Anniv. of Proclamation of Program of Modeling the Whole Society on the Juche Idea/
35ème Anniv. de Déclaration de Programme de Modeler la Société Entière sur l'Idée Juche



A souvenir sheet was issued to mark the 35th anniversary of proclamation of program of mod-eling the whole society on the Juche idea.
Leader Kim Jong II set forth the revolutionary ideology of President Kim II Sung as the guiding idea of our era on February 19, Juche63(1974), the first of its kind in the history, and proclaimed modeling the whole society on the Juche idea as the main task of our Party's ideological work.

Friday, October 2, 2009

FDC from Nagorno-Karabakh/FDC du Haut-Karabagh

Preservation of the wild nature/Préservation de la nature sauvage


The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR)(Armenian: Լեռնային Ղարաբաղի Հանրապետություն Lernayin Gharabaghi Hanrapetut’yun, Azerbaijani: Dağlıq Qarabağ Respublikası) or Artsakh Republic is a de facto independent republic located in the Nagorno-Karabakh region (or Artsakh region) of the South Caucasus, about 270 kilometers (170 miles) west of the Azerbaijani capital of Baku and very close to the border with Armenia.

The predominantly Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh became disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan when both countries gained independence from the Russian Empire in 1918. After the Soviet Union established control over the area, in 1923 it formed the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) within the Azerbaijan SSR. In the final years of the Soviet Union, the region re-emerged as a source of dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, culminating in a large ethnic conflict and, eventually, in the Nagorno-Karabakh War that was fought from 1991 to 1994.

On December 10, 1991, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, a referendum held in the NKAO and the neighboring Shahumian region resulted in a declaration of independence from Azerbaijan as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The country remains unrecognized by any international organization or country, including Armenia.

Since the ceasefire in 1994, most of Nagorno-Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan around it remain under the joint Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh military control. Representatives of the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have since been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.

Le Haut-Karabagh (ou Haut-Karabakh, transcrit du russe), ou Artsakh par les Arméniens, est une région de Transcaucasie enclavée en Azerbaïdjan.

Le Haut-Karabagh est peuplé majoritairement d'Arméniens et a déclaré son indépendance de l'Azerbaïdjan. La communauté internationale ne reconnaît pas l'indépendance du Haut-Karabagh et considère qu'il fait partie de l'Azerbaïdjan. Sa superficie est d'environ 5 000 km² et sa capitale est Stepanakert.

Le Haut-Karabagh, donné à l'Azerbaïdjan par Staline, était autonome pendant la période soviétique mais rattaché à la République socialiste soviétique d'Azerbaïdjan. Depuis la fin de l'URSS, il lutte pour son indépendance ou son rattachement à l'Arménie. Il a un gouvernement et revendique le titre de « République du Karabagh ». Les hostilités entre les Arméniens et l'armée azerbaïdjanaise ont cessé depuis une trêve négociée par la Russie le 12 mai 1994.