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| On 1 December 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a series of postage stamps with the title Christmas (Winter Holidays) 2009. The issue comprises two stamps, with associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). The designer was Vitalie Leca. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. |
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| Pageant of the Goat
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| On 26 November 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a series of postage stamps with the title Famous Writers. The issue comprises four stamps, with associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). The designer was Vitalie Roşca. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. |
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| Eugen Ionescu (1909-1994). Playwright and Dramatist
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Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈd͡ʒen i.oˈnesku]; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude and insignificance of human existence. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya (1907-1995). Memoirist
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Eufrosinia Antonovna Kersnovskaya (Russian: Евфроси́ния Анто́новна Керсно́вская; January 8, 1908 – March 8, 1994) was a Russian woman who spent 12 years in Gulag camps and wrote her memoirs in 12 notebooks, 2,200,000 characters, accompanied with 680 pictures. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Eufrosinia_Kersnovskaya', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852). Dramatist and Novelist
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, tr. Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Nikolai_Gogol', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Naturalist and Writer
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Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Charles_Darwin', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
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| On 18 October 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a postage stamp with the title European Day Against Trafficking in Human Beings. The issue comprises one stamp, with an associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). The designer was Vitaliu Pogolşa. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. |
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Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others, or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person to another location. Read more.. |
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| Girl and Spider Web
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| On 9 October 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a postage stamp with the title The «Moldova» Grape Variety. The issue comprises one stamp, with an associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). The designer was Vladimir Melnic. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. |
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With a production of 124,200 tons of wine (as of 2009), Moldova has a well-established wine industry. It has a vineyard area of 148,500 hectares (367,000 acres) of which 107,800 hectares (266,000 acres) are used for commercial production. The remaining 40,700 hectares (101,000 acres) are vineyards planted in villages around the houses used to make home-made wine, or 'vin de casa'. Many families have their own recipes and strands of grapes that have been passed down through the generations. In 2009, Moldova was the twenty-second largest wine producing country in the world. Most of the country's commercial wine production is for export. Read more.. |
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| The «Moldova» Grape Variety
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 | 1997 Wines and Grapes (I) |
 | 2002 National Wine Festival |
 | 2006 National Wine Day |
 | 2010 The «Feteasca» Grape Variety |
 | 2013 Grapes of Moldova: «Muscat Timpuriu» (Early Muscat) |
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| On 1 October 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a series of postage stamps with the title Rural Houses. The issue comprises three stamps, with associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). The designer was Vitalie Leca. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. |
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| House in Corjeuți, Briceni
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Corjeuţi is a commune in Briceni district, Moldova. It is composed of a single village, Corjeuţi. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Corjeu%C5%A3i', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| House in Chirsova, Comrat
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Chirsova is a commune and village in the Gagauz Autonomous Territorial Unit of the Republic of Moldova. The 2004 census listed the commune as having a population of 6,861 people. Gagauz total 3,128, Bulgarians - 3,326. Minorities included 156 Moldovans, 119 Russians, 98 Ukrainians, 1 Romanian, 9 Roma and 24 'other nationality'. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Chirsova', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| House in Buticeni, Orhei
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| On 28 August 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a series of postage stamps with the title Fruits. The issue comprises four stamps, with associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). The designer was Oleg Cojocaru. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. |
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| Walnuts
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A walnut is an edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans, especially the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia. Broken nutmeats of the eastern black walnut from the tree Juglans nigra are also commercially available in small quantities, as are foods prepared with butternut nutmeats from Juglans cinerea. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Walnut', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| Black Mulberries
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Morus nigra, the black mulberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to southwestern Asia, where it has been cultivated for so long that its precise natural range is unknown.[1] It is known for its large number of chromosomes, as it has 154 pairs (308 individuals). Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Morus_nigra', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
| Pears
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The pear is any of several tree and shrub species of genus Pyrus /ˈpaɪrəs/, in the family Rosaceae. It is also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued for their edible fruit, while others are cultivated as ornamental trees. The genus Pyrus is classified in subtribe Pyrinae within tribe Pyreae. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Pear', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
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An apricot is a fruit or the tree that bears the fruit. Usually, an apricot tree is from the tree species Prunus armeniaca, but the species Prunus brigantina, Prunus mandshurica, Prunus mume, and Prunus sibirica are closely related, have similar fruit, and are also called apricots. Read more..This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Apricot', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||
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| On 5 August 2009, the Post Office of Moldova (Poșta Moldovei) issued a series of postage stamps with the title Personalised Postage Stamps I. The issue comprises six stamps, with associated cancellation (postmark) and first day cover (FDC). Four of the stamps have labels that may be personalised. The other two stamps may have personal images to replace the logo of Posta Moldovei. The designer was Vitaliu Pogolşa. The printing was performed by Tipografia Centrală, Chişinău. Posta Moldovei made a TV commercial for the personalised stamps service in 2009: |
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