PC#110 Cover#131 Indonesia, Asean joint issue 2015,

Sent:

Arrived: 29/9/2015

Thank you Shinta1 I love the smile from the farmer in Bali. She looks so happy in the harvest.

Cover#130 Croatia, Europa2015 cover: Child Toy,

This cover arrived with a surprise inside, an abundance of stamps. I'm really happy with your gift Adi.

Sent:14/8/2015

Arrived: 28/9/2015

Thank you Adi!

Cover#129 Sweden cover, Flower and Flag stamps,

I rarely got anything from this beautiful country. 

Sent: 3/9/2015

Arrived: 28/9/2015

Thanks Trung!

PC#109 Russia, UNESCO site: Baikal Lake,

 Another awesome sunset card reached my hand today.The card shows sunset on the Baikal lake, one of the most beautiful lake in Russia which was listed in UNESCO. Really appreciated.

Sent: 29/8/2015

Arrived: 28/9/2015

Thank you so much, Tatiana!

Lake Baikal

UNESCO site
Date of Inscription: 1996
Country: Russian Federation

Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science.

The Committee inscribed Lake Baikal as the most outstanding example of a freshwater ecosystem on the basis of natrual criteria (vii), (viii), (ix) and (x). It is the oldest and deepest of the world´s lakes containing nearly 20% of the world´s unfrozen freshwater reserve. The lake contains an outstanding variety of endemic flora and fauna, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science. It is also surrounded by a system of protected areas that have high scenic and other natural values. The Committee took note of the confirmation of the revised boundaries of the site, which correspond to the core areas defined in the Baikal Law (excluding the five urban developed areas). It also noted that the special Lake Baikal Law is now in its second reading in the Duma. Finally, it noted concern over a number of integrity issues including pollution, which should be brought to the attention of the Russian authorities.

 Source: UNESCO.org

Cover#128 Czech, Commemorative Handstamps: Number#49/2015: 625th anniversary of the city promotion Prostejov (from 1390 to 2015),

Sent: 12/9/2015

Arrived: 22/9/2015

Thanks Trung!

Cover#127 Latvia, Cover: EUROPA 2015: Child Toy,

Sent:8/2015

Arrived: 19/9/2015

Thank you Wolfgang!

Cover#126 Czech, Commemorative Handstamps: Number#42/2015: Day ringer Hradecka 2015,

Sent: 28/9/2015

Arrived: 18/9/2015

Thank Trung!

PC#108 Czech, UNESCO site: Historic Centre of Český Krumlov

Historic Centre of Český Krumlov

UNESCO site
Date of Inscription: 1992
Country: Czech Repubic

Situated on the banks of the Vltava river, the town was built around a 13th-century castle with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements. It is an outstanding example of a small central European medieval town whose architectural heritage has remained intact thanks to its peaceful evolution over more than five centuries.

Sent: 7/9/2015

Arrived: 18/9/2015

Thanks Trung!

PC#107 Brunei, Local Maket,

My first one from Brunei arrived today. This one shows local market in Brunei: Kianggeh Maket.

Sent: 26/8/2015

Arrived: 17/9/2015

Thank you so much, Xiao Fang!

PC#106 Card from Belarus,

Sent: 26/8/2015

Arrived: 15/9/2015

Thank you, Tanya!

Cover#125 Czech, Commemorative Handstamps: Number#43/2015: Sir Nicholas Winton; Number#54: Prague 9 (Postcrossing);

Sent: 4/9/2015

Arrived: 14/9/2015

Thank Trung!

Cover#124 Czech, Owls cover, Commemorative Handstamps: Number#44/2015: Prague 1, Owls Silhouette,

Sent: 2/9/2015

Arrived: 14/9/2015

Thanks Trung!

Cover#123 Czech, Cover from the colector fair Sberatel. Commemorative Handstamps: Number#47/2015:Health shrink Collector Crokarska museum; Number#45: 18th International collector Fair; Number#46: 80 Alain Delon collector Fair in Prague; Number#54: Postcrossing,

One cover with 4 pictorial postmarks. I really love this one. Fair Sberatel is the biggest fair for collectors in Prague.

Sent: 4/9/2015

Arrived: 14/9/2015

Many thanks, Trung!

PC#105 Austria, UNESCO site: Historic centre of the City of Salzburg,

Historic Centre of The City of Salzburg,

UNESCO site
Date of Inscription: 1996
Country: Austria

Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its Flamboyant Gothic art attracted many craftsmen and artists before the city became even better known through the work of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the centre of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance. This meeting-point of northern and southern Europe perhaps sparked the genius of Salzburg’s most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name has been associated with the city ever since.

Salzburg is an outstanding example of an ecclesiastical city-state, peculiar to the Holy Roman Empire, from Prussia to Italy. Most disappeared as political and administrative units in the early 19th century and adopted alternative trajectories of development. No other example of this type of political organism has survived so completely, preserving its urban fabric and individual buildings to such a remarkable degree as Salzburg.

Salzburg is the point where the Italian and German cultures met and which played a crucial role in the exchanges between these two cultures. The result is a Baroque town that has emerged intact from history, and exceptional material testimony of a particular culture and period. The centre of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance to the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santino Solari.

The Salzburg skyline, against a backdrop of mountains, is characterized by its profusion of spires and domes, dominated by the fortress of HohenSalzburg. It contains a number of buildings, both secular and ecclesiastical, of very high quality from periods ranging from the late Middle Ages to the 20th Century.  There is a clear separation, visible on the ground and on the map, between the lands of the Prince-Archbishops and those of the burghers. The former is characterized by its monumental buildings - the Cathedral, the Residence, the Franciscan Abbey, the Abbey of St Peter - and its open spaces, the Domplatz in particular. The burghers' houses, by contrast, are on small plots and front onto narrow streets, with the only open spaces provided by the three historic markets. Salzburg is rich in buildings from the Gothic period onwards, which combine to create a townscape and urban fabric of great individuality and beauty.

Salzburg is also intimately associated with many important artists and musicians, preeminent among them Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Sent: 28/8/2015

Arrived: 12/9/2015

Thank so much Dustin15!

Cover#122 Lithuania, Cover EUROPA 2015: Child toy,

Sent: 25/8/2015

Arrived: 10/9/2015

Thank you Wolfgang!

Cover#121 Canada, HMS Erebus cover,

Sent: 22/8/2015

Arrived: 7/9/2015

Thanks Juvet!

Name:	HMS Erebus
Builder:	Pembroke dockyard, Wales
Launched:	1826
Fate:	Abandoned in Victoria Strait, Canada, 22 April 1848[1]
General characteristics
Class & type:	Hecla class bomb vessel
Displacement:	715.3 long tons (726.8 t)[2]
Tons burthen:	372 tons (bm)
Length:	105 ft (32 m)
Beam:	29 ft (8.8 m)
Installed power:	30 nhp [3]
Propulsion:	Sails steam engine
Complement:	67
Armament:	1 × 13 in (330 mm) mortar, 1 × 10 in (250 mm) mortar, 8 × 24 pdr (11 kg) guns, 2 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns

HMS Erebus (1826)

HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales in 1826. The vessel was named after the dark region in Hades of Greek mythology called Erebus. The 372-ton ship was armed with two mortars – one 13 in (330 mm) and one 10 in (250 mm) – and 10 guns. The ship was abandoned during the Franklin Expedition in 1848 and rediscovered in a submerged state in September 2014 after a long search.

Ross expedition

After two years service in the Mediterranean Sea, the Erebus was refitted as an exploration vessel for Antarctic service, and on 21 November 1840 – captained by James Clark Ross – she departed from Tasmania for Antarctica in company with the Terror. In January 1841, the crew of both ships landed on Victoria Land, and proceeded to name areas of the landscape after British politicians, scientists, and acquaintances. Mount Erebus, on Ross Island, was named after one ship and Mount Terror after the other.

They then discovered the Ross Ice Shelf, which they were unable to penetrate, and followed it eastward until the lateness of the season compelled them to return to Tasmania. The following season, 1842, Ross continued to survey the "Great Ice Barrier", as it was called, continuing to follow it eastward. Both ships returned to the Falkland Islands before returning to the Antarctic in the 1842–1843 season. They conducted studies in magnetism, and returned with oceanographic data and collections of botanical and ornithological specimens. Birds collected on the first expedition were described and illustrated by George Robert Gray and Richard Bowdler Sharpe in The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Erebus & HMS Terror. Birds of New Zealand, 1875. The revised edition of Gray (1846) (1875). The future renowned botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, then aged 23, was assistant-surgeon to Robert McCormick.

Franklin expedition

Main article: Franklin's lost expedition

For their next voyage, to the Arctic under Sir John Franklin, both the Erebus and Terror were outfitted with steam engines from the London and Greenwich Railway steam locomotives. That of the Erebus was rated at 25 horsepower (19 kW) and could propel the ship at 4 knots (7.4 km/h). The ships carried 12 days' supply of coal. The ships had iron plating added to their hulls. Sir John Franklin sailed in the Erebus, in overall command of the expedition, and the Terror was again commanded by Francis Crozier. The expedition was ordered to gather magnetic data in the Canadian Arctic and to complete a crossing of the Northwest Passage, which had already been charted from both the east and west but had never been entirely navigated.

The ships were last seen entering Baffin Bay in August 1845. The disappearance of the Franklin expedition set off a massive search effort in the Arctic. The broad circumstances of the expedition's fate were first revealed when Hudson's Bay Company doctor John Rae collected artifacts and testimony from local Inuit in 1853. Later expeditions up to 1866 confirmed these reports.

Both ships had become icebound and had been abandoned by their crews, totaling about 130 men, all of whom subsequently died from a variety of causes, including hypothermia, scurvy, and starvation while trying to trek overland to the south. Subsequent expeditions until the late 1980s, including autopsies of crew members, also revealed that their shoddily canned rations may have been tainted by both lead and botulism. Oral reports by local Inuit that some of the crew members resorted to cannibalism were at least somewhat supported by forensic evidence of cut marks on the skeletal remains of crew members found on King William Island during the late 20th century.

A British transport ship, the Renovation, spotted two ships on a large ice floe off the coast of Newfoundland in April 1851. The identities of the ships were not confirmed. It was suggested over the years that these might have been the Erebus and Terror, though it is now certain they could not have been, and were most likely abandoned whaling ships.

On 15 August 2008, Parks Canada, an agency of the Government of Canada announced a CDN$75,000 six-week search, deploying the icebreaker CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier with the goal of finding the ships and also to reinforce Canada's claims regarding sovereignty over large portions of the Arctic.

PM Stephen Harper appearing at a gala to celebrate the discovery of HMS Erebus, one of two ships wrecked during John Franklin's lost expedition at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

The wreckage of one of Franklin's ships was found on 2 September 2014 by a Parks Canada team led by Ryan Harris and Marc-André Bernier . On 1 October 2014 the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that the remains were that of Erebus. The recovery of the ship's bell was announced on 6 November 2014.

On 4 March 2015 a winter diving expedition on the Erebus, consisting of Parks Canada and Royal Canadian Navy divers, was announced to commence in April.

The wrecks are designated a National Historic Site of Canada with the precise location of the designation in abeyance

Source: Wiki

PC#104 Canada, Impressionism card from Sisley artwork,

Sent: 27/8/2015

Arrived: 7/9/2015

Thank you Marie for reading my profil and picking one card from my wistlist!

The Moret Bridge in the sunlight

Artist: Alfred Sisley

Completion Date: 1892

Style: Impressionism

Genre: cityscape

Technique: oil

Material: board

Dimensions: 65 x 81 cm

Gallery: Private Collection

PC#103 Malaysia, Asean countries' flags,

Sent: 20/8/2015

Arrived: 4/9/2015

Thank you Matthew!

PC#102 France, UNESCO: Chartres Cathedral,

Chartres Cathedral

UNESCO siteDate of inscription: 1979

Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, the porches adorned with fine sculptures from the middle of the 12th century, and the magnificent 12th- and 13th-century stained-glass windows, all in remarkable condition, combine to make it a masterpiece.

Sent: 23/8/2015

Arrived: 3/9/2015

Thank you, Duam78!

PC#101 Philippines, Sunset on the beach at Boracay Island,

I adore the sunset, especially the sunset on beach. When I see the sunset, I feel the peace in my soul.

Sent: 20/8/2015

Arrived: 3/9/2015

Thank you so much Shaula for trying to make my day by checking my profil first. Yes you are.

Cover#119 #120 2-9-2015: 70th Anniversairy of Independence day of Vietnam,

Today, we celebrate the 70 anniversary of Independence day. In this occasion, this special postmark was released with image of Uncle Ho declaring the Independence declaration on 2/9/1945.

Sent: 2/9/2015

Arrived: 7/9/2015

Some new stamps I got today. I try with new topic: Buddhism.

Et j'ai dessiné celle-ci par le vernis à ongles. Le champ de Muscari en hiver tout gris.