Sent: 09.03.2018
Received 21.03.2018
Travel time: 12 days
Sender Anna from Monino, Moskovskaya oblast via postcrossing.com
A full mailbox is a happy mailbox! World through postcards, postcrossing and covers
Friday 30 March 2018
Thursday 29 March 2018
0153 South Korea Flag of country FOTW93
Sent: 21.06.2017
Received: 03.07.2017
Travel time: 13 days
Sender: Daniel Eastwood from South Korea
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The flag of the Republic of Korea, also known as the
Taegukgi (also spelled as Taegeukgi, literally "supreme ultimate
flag"), has three parts: a white rectangular background, a red and blue
Taeguk, symbolizing balance, in its center, and four black trigrams selected
from the original eight, one toward each corner.
The flag's background is white, a traditional color in
Korean culture. White was common in the daily attire of 19th-century Koreans,
and it still appears in contemporary versions of traditional Korean garments,
such as the hanbok. The color represents peace and purity.
Saturday 24 March 2018
0152 Prague Meeting postcrossing card
Card sent by me from Postcrossing Meetup in Prague 4 November 2016
Friday 23 March 2018
0151 Kazakhstan Flag of country FOTW92
Sent: 30.06.2017
Received 07.07.2017
Travel time: 7 days
Sender Assel from Kazachstan.
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The national flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan has a gold
sun with 32 rays above a soaring golden steppe eagle, both centered on a sky
blue background; the hoist side displays a national ornamental pattern
"koshkar-muiz" (the horns of the ram) in gold; the blue color is of
religious significance to the Turkic peoples of the country, and so symbolizes
cultural and ethnic unity; it also represents the endless sky as well as water;
the sun, a source of life and energy, exemplifies wealth and plenitude; the
sun's rays are shaped like grain, which is the basis of abundance and
prosperity; the eagle has appeared on the flags of Kazakh tribes for centuries
and represents freedom, power, and the flight to the future. The width of the
flag to its length is 1:2
Wednesday 21 March 2018
0150 Jersey Flag FOTW91
Sent: 22.03.2017
Received 27.03.2017
Travel time - 5 days
Sender Hellen Beeby from UK.
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The flag of Jersey is composed of a red saltire on a white
field. In the upper quadrant the badge of Jersey surmounted by a yellow
"Plantagenet crown". The flag was adopted by the States of Jersey on
12 June 1979, proclaimed by Queen Elizabeth on 10 December 1980 and first
officially hoisted on 7 April 1981.
Monday 19 March 2018
0149 Japan Flag of country FOTW90
Sent: 10.01.2017
Received 19.01.2017
Travel time: 9 days
Sender : Masayo Nishimura from Gero - Town famous for "Hot Springs"
Wiki:
The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner
bearing a crimson-red disc at its center. This flag is officially called
Nisshōki (日章旗,
the "sun-mark flag"), but is more commonly known in Japan as Hi no
maru (日の丸,
the "circle of the sun"). It embodies the country's sobriquet: Land
of the Rising Sun.
The Nisshōki flag is designated as the national flag in the
Law Regarding the National Flag and National Anthem, which was promulgated and
became effective on August 13, 1999. Although no earlier legislation had specified
a national flag, the sun-disc flag had already become the de facto national
flag of Japan. Two proclamations issued in 1870 by the Daijō-kan, the
governmental body of the early Meiji period, each had a provision for a design
of the national flag. A sun-disc flag was adopted as the national flag for
merchant ships under Proclamation No. 57 of Meiji 3 (issued on February 27,
1870), and as the national flag used by the Navy under Proclamation No. 651 of
Meiji 3 (issued on October 27, 1870). Use of the Hi no maru was severely
restricted during the early years of the Allied occupation of Japan after World
War II; these restrictions were later relaxed.
The sun plays an important role in Japanese mythology and
religion as the Emperor is said to be the direct descendant of the sun goddess
Amaterasu and the legitimacy of the ruling house rested on this divine
appointment and descent from the chief deity of the predominant Shinto
religion. The name of the country as well as the design of the flag reflect this
central importance of the sun. The ancient history Shoku Nihongi says that
Emperor Monmu used a flag representing the sun in his court in 701, and this is
the first recorded use of a sun-motif flag in Japan. The oldest existing flag
is preserved in Unpō-ji temple, Kōshū, Yamanashi, which is older than the 16th
century, and an ancient legend says that the flag was given to the temple by
Emperor Go-Reizei in the 11th century. During the Meiji Restoration,
both the sun disc and the Rising Sun Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy
became major symbols in the emerging Japanese Empire. Propaganda posters,
textbooks, and films depicted the flag as a source of pride and patriotism. In
Japanese homes, citizens were required to display the flag during national
holidays, celebrations and other occasions as decreed by the government.
Different tokens of devotion to Japan and its Emperor featuring the Hi no maru
motif became popular during the Second Sino-Japanese War and other conflicts.
These tokens ranged from slogans written on the flag to clothing items and
dishes that resembled the flag.
Sunday 18 March 2018
0148 Israel Flag of country FOTW89
Received 27.02.2017
Travel time: 8 days
Sender Irina from Israel.
http://postcardsmarket.com/israel
The flag of Israel (Hebrew: דגל
ישראל Degel Yisra'el;
Arabic: علم إسرائيل ʿAlam Israʼīl) was
adopted on 28 October 1948, five months after the establishment of the State of
Israel. It depicts a blue hexagram on a white background, between two
horizontal blue stripes.
The blue color is described as "dark sky-blue",
and varies from flag to flag, ranging from a hue of pure blue, sometimes shaded
almost as dark as navy blue, to hues about 75% toward pure cyan and shades as
light as very light blue. The flag was designed for the Zionist Movement in
1891. The basic design recalls the Tallit (טַלִּית),
the Jewish prayer shawl, which is white with black or blue stripes. The symbol
in the center represents the Star of David (Magen David, מָגֵן דָּוִד), a Jewish symbol dating from late medieval
Prague, which was adopted by the First Zionist Congress in 1897.
In 2007, an Israeli flag measuring 660 m × 100 m (2,170 ft ×
330 ft) and weighing 5.2 tons (5.7 short tons) was unfurled near the ancient
Jewish fortress of Masada, breaking the world record for the largest flag.
Friday 16 March 2018
0147 Ireland Flag of country FOTW88
Sent: -
Received: 14.03.2017
Travel time -
Sender Lea from Ireland
The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach na hÉireann) –
frequently referred to as the Irish tricolor (trídhathach na hÉireann) – is the
national flag and ensign of the Republic of Ireland. The flag itself is a
vertical tricolor of green (at the hoist), white and orange.
The proportions of the flag are 1:2 (that is to say, flown
horizontally, the flag is half as high as it is wide). Presented as a gift in
1848 to Thomas Francis Meagher from a small group of French women sympathetic
to the Irish cause, it was intended to symbolize the inclusion and hoped-for
union between Roman Catholics and Protestants, the significance of the colors outlined
by Meagher was, “The white in the center signifies a lasting truce between
Orange and Green and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of Irish
Protestants and Irish Catholics may be clasped in generous and heroic
brotherhood.”
It was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was
raised above Dublin's General Post Office by Gearóid O'Sullivan, that the tricolor
came to be regarded as the national flag. The flag was adopted by the Irish
Republic during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921). The flag's use was
continued by the Irish Free State (1922–1937) and it was later given
constitutional status under the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. The tricolor is
used by nationalists on both sides of the border as the national flag of the
whole island of Ireland since 1916. Thus it is flown by many nationalists in
Northern Ireland as well as by the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Sunday 11 March 2018
0146 Italy Flag of country FOTW87
Sent: 07.07.2016
Received 19.07.2016
Travel time 12 days
Sender Myself from Imola, during my trip in Italy
The flag of Italy (bandiera d'Italia, often
referred to in Italian as il Tricolore; Italian: [il trikoˈloːre]) is a
tricolour featuring three equally-sized vertical pales of green, white and red,
with the green at the hoist side. Its current form has been in use since 18
June 1946 and was formally adopted on 1 January 1948.
The first entity to use the Italian tricolour
was the Cisalpine Republic in 1797, which supplanted Milan after Napoleon's
victorious army crossed Italy in 1796. The colours chosen by the Cispadane
Republic were red and white, which were the colours of the recently conquered
flag of Milan; and green, which was the colour of the uniform of the Milanese
civic guard. During this time, many small French-proxy republics of Jacobin
inspiration supplanted the ancient absolute Italian states and almost all, with
variants of colour, used flags characterised by three bands of equal size, clearly
inspired by the French model of 1790.
Some have attributed particular values to the
colours, and a common interpretation is that the green represents the country's
plains and the hills; white, the snow-capped Alps; and red, blood spilt in the
Wars of Italian Independence and Unification. A more religious interpretation
is that the green represents hope, the white represents faith, and the red
represents charity; this references the three theological virtues.
0145 Ireland Flag of country FOTW86
Sent: -
Received: 24.03.2017
Sender: Lea from Dublin, Ireland
The national flag of Ireland (Irish: bratach
na hÉireann) – frequently referred to as the Irish tricolour (trídhathach na
hÉireann) – is the national flag and ensign of the Republic of Ireland. The
flag itself is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white and orange.
The proportions of the flag are 1:2 (that is
to say, flown horizontally, the flag is half as high as it is wide). Presented
as a gift in 1848 to Thomas Francis Meagher from a small group of French women
sympathetic to the Irish cause, it was intended to symbolise the inclusion and
hoped-for union between Roman Catholics and Protestants, the significance of
the colours outlined by Meagher was, “The white in the centre signifies a
lasting truce between Orange and Green and I trust that beneath its folds the
hands of Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics may be clasped in generous and
heroic brotherhood.”
It was not until the Easter Rising of 1916,
when it was raised above Dublin's General Post Office by Gearóid O'Sullivan,
that the tricolour came to be regarded as the national flag. The flag was
adopted by the Irish Republic during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921).
The flag's use was continued by the Irish Free State (1922–1937) and it was
later given constitutional status under the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. The
tricolour is used by nationalists on both sides of the border as the national
flag of the whole island of Ireland since 1916. Thus it is flown by many
nationalists in Northern Ireland as well as by the Gaelic Athletic Association.
0144 India Flag of country FOTW85
Sent: 07.06.2017
Received: 19.06.2017
Travel time 12 days
http://postcardsmarket.com/product/india-fw/
Received: 19.06.2017
Travel time 12 days
http://postcardsmarket.com/product/india-fw/
The National Flag of India is a horizontal
rectangular tricolour of India saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka
Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted in its
present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947,
and it became the official flag of the Dominion of India on 15 August 1947. The
flag was subsequently retained as that of the Republic of India. In India, the
term "tricolour" (Hindi: तिरंगा, translit. Tiraṅgā) almost
always refers to the Indian national flag. The flag is based on the Swaraj
flag, a flag of the Indian National Congress designed by Pingali Venkayya.[N 1]
By law, the flag is to be made of khadi, a
special type of hand-spun cloth or silk, made popular by Mahatma Gandhi. The
manufacturing process and specifications for the flag are laid out by the
Bureau of Indian Standards. The right to manufacture the flag is held by the
Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission, who allocates it to
regional groups. As of 2009, the Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha has
been the sole manufacturer of the flag.
Usage of the flag is governed by the Flag Code
of India and other laws relating to the national emblems. The original code
prohibited use of the flag by private citizens except on national days such as
the Independence day and the Republic Day. In 2002, on hearing an appeal from a
private citizen, Naveen Jindal, the Supreme Court of India directed the
Government of India to amend the code to allow flag usage by private citizens.
Subsequently, the Union Cabinet of India amended the code to allow limited
usage. The code was amended once more in 2005 to allow some additional use
including adaptations on certain forms of clothing. The flag code also governs
the protocol of flying the flag and its use in conjunction with other national
and non-national flags.
0141-143 Indonesia Flag of country FOTW84
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Sent: 31.10.2016
Recieved: 18.11.2016
Travel time 18 days
Sender Mia Salim from Indonesia
Sent: 15.09.2016
Recieved: 18.11.2016
Travel time 64 days
Sender Fida from Indonesia
Sent: 14.07.2017
Recieved: 20.09.2017
Travel time 67 days
Sender Mia Salim from Indonesia, with special postcrossing stamps
The Flag of Indonesia is a simple bicolour
with two equal horizontal bands, red (top) and white (bottom) with an overall
ratio of 2:3. It was introduced and hoisted in public at the Indonesian
Declaration of Independence on 17 August 1945 in Pegangsaan Timur street in
Jakarta, and again when the Dutch formally transferred sovereignty on 17 August
1950. The design of the flag has remained unchanged since.
The flag of Indonesia is graphically identical
to the Flag of Monaco, with a slight difference only in the ratio of its
dimensions.
The Naval Jack of Indonesia is reserved for
sole use by the Indonesian Navy. It flies from the mast of every active
Indonesian war ship. The design of the jack is described as nine alternating
stripes of red and white. It is nicknamed Ular-ular Perang (War Pennant or
literally "War Snakes"), probably due to the stripes' design. The
naval jack dates to the age of Majapahit Empire. This empire, renowned for its
great maritime strength, flew similar jacks on its vessels.
0139-140 Iceland Flag of country FOTW83
Sent: 17.05.2017
Received: 22.05.2017
Travel time: 5 days
Sender Jurgen from Switzerland
. This Europa 2012 Iceland stamp was one of the most interesting stamps in that year. More details about the stamp you can find here: http://europa-stamps.blogspot.com/2011/11/iceland-2012.html
Sent: 30.05.2017
Received: 08.06.2017
Travel time: 9 days
Sender Rosmarie from Switzerland
0138 Hungary Flag of country FOTW82
Sent: 29.12.2016
Received -
Sender Krisztina from Hungary
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The nation of Hungary originated from the
national freedom movement from before 1848, which culminated in the Hungarian
Revolution of 1848. The revolution was not only in opposition against the monarchy
but also the Habsburg Empire, as well as to form an independent republic.
Accordingly, the Hungarian flag features a tricolour element, which is based
upon the French flag, as a reflection of the ideas of the French revolution;
while red, white, and green are colours derived from the historical Hungarian
coat of arms, which have essentially remained in the same form since the
mid-15th century, with exception to some minor differences, and were marshalled
from arms that first appeared in the late 12th and early 13th century as arms
of the Árpáds, Hungary's founding dynasty. The stripes are horizontal rather
than vertical to prevent confusion with the Italian flag, which had also been
designed after the French flag. According to other data, the recent form of the
Hungarian tricolour had been already used from 1608 at the coronation of
Mathias II of Hungary.
Folklore of the romantic period attributed the
colours to virtues: red for strength, white for faithfulness and green for
hope. Alternatively, red for the blood spilled for the fatherland, white for
freedom and green for the land, for the pastures of Hungary. The new
constitution, which took effect on 1 January 2012, makes the ex-post
interpretation mentioned first official (in the semi-official translation :
strength (erő), fidelity (hűség) and hope (remény).
0136-137 Grenada Flag of country FOTW81
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Sent: 28.08.2017
Received 08.09.2017
Travel time 11 days
Sender Reinelle from Trinidad and Tobago
Sent: 04.01.2018
Received: 11.01.2018
Travel time 7 days
Sender Valery from Rep Dominicana
The national flag of Grenada was adopted upon
independence from the United Kingdom, 7 February 1974. The flag was designed by
Anthony C. George of Soubise in Saint Andrew Parish. The civil ensign is the
same, except for a 1:2 rather than 3:5 ratio. The naval ensign is based on the
British White Ensign, with this flag in the canton (and extending into the
cross).
The six stars in the red border represent the
country's six parishes, with the middle star, encircled by a red disk,
representing Carriacou and Petite Martinique. The symbol in the hoist
represents a clove of nutmeg, one of the principal crops of Grenada. It also
represents a link to Grenada's former name, which was the "Isle of
Spice". The red colour of the flag stands for courage and vitality, gold
for wisdom and warmth, and green for vegetation and agriculture.
0135 Greenland Flag of country FOTW80
Sent: 20.09.2016
Received: 03.10.2016
Travel time : 13 days
Sender Arnold (USA)
The flag of Greenland was designed by Greenland native Thue
Christiansen. It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red
with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of center. The top half of the
disk is red, the bottom half is white. The entire flag measures 18 by 12 parts;
each stripe measures 6 parts; the disk is 8 parts in diameter, horizontally
offset by 7 parts from the hoist to the center of the circle, and vertically
centered.
Its local name in the Greenlandic language is Erfalasorput,
which means "our flag". The term Aappalaartoq (meaning "the
red") is also used for both the Greenlandic flag and the flag of Denmark
(Dannebrog). Today, Greenlanders display both the Erfalasorput and the Dannebrog
often side-by-side. The flag of Greenland is the only national flag of a Nordic
country or territory without a Nordic Cross.
0134 Greece Flag of country FOTW79
Sent: 20.07.2017
Received: 03.08.2017
Travel time: 14 days
Wiki: The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the
"sky-blue-white" or the "blue-white" (Greek: Γαλανόλευκη or
Κυανόλευκη), officially recognized by Greece as one of its national symbols, is
based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is
a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes
Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the established religion of the Greek people of
Greece and Cyprus. The blazon of the flag is Azure, four bars Argent; on a
canton of the field a Greek cross throughout of the second. The official flag
ratio is 2:3. The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its
history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since
the late 1960s. It was officially adopted by the First National Assembly at
Epidaurus on 13 January 1822.
According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent
the nine syllables of the phrase "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος" ("Freedom
or Death"), the five blue stripes for the syllables "Ελευθερία"
and the four white stripes "ή Θάνατος". The nine stripes are also said to represent
the letters of the word "freedom" (Greek: ελευθερία). There is also a
different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses
of art and civilization (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of
reference for the Greeks).
Blue and white have been interpreted as symbolizing the colors
of the famed Greek sky and sea.
0133 Ghana Flag of country FOTW78
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Sent: 12.03.2016
Received 18.04.2017
Travel time: 37 days
Sent: 17.02.2017
Received 05.04.2017
Travel time 47 days
Sender Linda Halabi (Ghana)
The national flag of Ghana was designed and adopted in 1957
and was flown until 1962, and then reinstated in 1966. It consists of the
Pan-African colours of red, yellow, and green, in horizontal stripes, with a
black five-pointed star in the center of the gold stripe. The Ghanaian flag was
the second African flag after the flag of the Ethiopian Empire to feature these
colours. The flag's design influenced that of the flag of Guinea-Bissau (1973).
It was designed by Theodosia Okoh.
The red represents the blood of those who died in the
country's struggle for independence from the Great Britain, the gold represents
the mineral wealth of the country, the green symbolizes the country's rich
forests and natural wealth, and the black star is the symbol of African
emancipation. The black star was adopted from the flag of the Black Star Line,
a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey that operated from 1919 to 1922.
It is where the Ghana national football team draw their nickname, the Black
Stars, from.
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