Good morning! Smiling and happy weekend friends! Smurfs The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs, Dutch: De Smurfen) is a Belgian comic and television franchise centered on a fictional colony of small blue creatures that live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest. The Smurfs were first created and introduced as a series of comic characters by the Belgian comics artist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) in 1958. The word “Smurf” is the original Dutch translation of the French Schtroumpf, which, according to Peyo, is a word invented during a meal with fellow cartoonist André Franquin, when he could not remember the word salt. There are more than one hundred Smurfs, whose names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics, e.g. Jokey Smurf, who likes to play practical jokes on his fellow smurfs, Clumsy Smurf, who has a habit of creating havoc unintentionally, and Smurfette—the first female Smurf to be introduced in the series. The Smurfs wear Phrygian caps, which represented freedom in Roman times. The Smurf franchise began as a comic and expanded into advertising, movies, TV series, ice capades, video games, theme parks, and dolls. In 2005, an advertisement featuring The Smurfs was aired in Belgium in which the Smurf village is annihilated by warplanes. Designed as a UNICEF advertisement, and with the approval of the family of the Smurfs late creator Peyo, the 25-second episode was shown on the national television after the 9pm timeslot to avoid children seeing it. It was the keystone in a fund-raising campaign by UNICEFs Belgian arm to raise money for the rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—both former Belgian colonies. In honor of their 50th anniversary in 2008, the Smurfs began a year long Happy Smurfday Euro Tour in connection with UNICEF. The Smurfs visited 15 European countries on the day of their 50th Smurfday in the form of publicly distributed white figurines. The recipients could decorate and submit them to a competition. The results of this contest were auctioned off and raised a total amount of 124,700 euros for benefit of UNICEF. The 50th anniversary of the Smurfs and the 80th anniversary of the birth of its creator Peyo, were celebrated by issuing a high-value collectors coin: the Belgian 5 euro 50th anniversary of The Smurfs commemorative coin, minted in 2008. References: smurfs.wikia #Smurfs #comics #animation #cartoon #Belgium #UNICEF #photography #photo #photoextract #photoextractplus #europeanphoto #googlephotos #googleplusphotos #fineart #fineartplus #fineartphotography #potd #nature #naturephotography #naturephotographers #photography #photographers #ThirstyThursday #naturephotography #landcapephotography #photographer #wildlife #Under5K #europeanphoto #wildlife #nikon #steiermark #österreich #österreichurlaub #alpen #landscapephotography #Allbcc #Shanghai #Karachi #Beijing #Delhi #Lagos #Istanbul #Guangzhou #Mumbai #Moscow #Dhaka #Cairo #SãoPaulo #Lahore #Shenzhen #Seoul #Jakarta #Kinshasa #Tianjin #Tokyo #MexicoCity #Hyderabad #Lima #Bengaluru #London #NewYorkCity #Bangkok #Pune #Dongguan #Tehran #Bogotá #HoChiMinhCity #HongKong #Baghdad #Wuhan #Hanoi #Luanda #RioDeJaneiro #Foshan #Santiago #Riyadh #Ahmedabad #Singapore #Shantou #SaintPetersburg #Ankara #Chennai #Abidjan #Chengdu #Yangon #Alexandria #Chongqing #Kolkata #Xian #Surat #Johannesburg #Nanjing #DarEsSalaam #Suzhou #Harbin #Giza #Zhengzhou #NewTaipeiCity #LosAngeles #CapeTown #Shenyang #Yokohama #Busan #Hangzhou #Xiamen #Quanzhou #Berlin #Jeddah #Durban #Kabul #Jaipur #Hefei #Pyongyang #Madrid #Ekurhuleni #Nairobi #AddisAbaba #Changsha #Wenzhou
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