Munderkingen is a town of 5500 located on the Danube. Located here is the New Danube Bridge. It was built in 1893 and was the first massive concrete arch bridge. It has an arch span of 50m. Part of it was blown up by the retreating German Army in 1945, but was quickly rebuilt by 1948. 

I like these famous women scientist cards you can buy. This one comes from Forest Grove, Oregon, and suburb of Portland.  Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) was an English electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor, and a suffragette. She attended Girton College, Cambridge, and studied mathematics and was coached by physicist Richard Glazebrook. She passed the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge, but they did not grant her an academic degree because they did not award full degrees to women. Instead she passed an external examination at the University of London, which did award her a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1881.  In 1844 she attended evening classes on electricity at Finsbury Technical College. She ended up marrying the instructor, Professor William Edward Ayrton, in 1885. He was a pioneer in electrical engineering and physics education and a fellow of the Royal Society. She assisted him with experiments in physics and electricity, and soon began her own investigations ...

The sender describes Buxtehude as a "small, fairytale town near Hamburg in Germany," and goes on to say that "It's told that a hare and a hedgehog ran for a bet and the smarter hedgehog won. Now both are symbols of the town." The Brothers Grimm wrote the The Hare and the Hedgehog.  Because Bextehude is mentioned in so many Germany fairy tales, many don't believe the town actually exists. In fact there is a saying - nach Buxtehude jagen  which translates "to chase somebody of to Buxtehude" which means to exile someone to a far away place.  There are early signs of settlement here from the Bronze Age, but the settlement by the Este River is first mentioned in 959.  Tourism is a big part of Buxtehude's economy and it enjoys a reputation of being warm and visitor friendly. It preserves its cultural and regional heritage without denying the future.  There are 41 000 residents of Buxtehude. 

Bayan Lepas is a suburb of George Town. The Penang Bridge connect George Town with Bayan Lepas. The Penang Bridge is the site of a marathon that is mostly raced on the bridge.  The Penang Bridge International Marathon also includes a half-marathon and a 10 km event. The latest winners were Moses Mbugua of Kenya and Rita Jeptoo of Kenya. In fact, all the men's winners of the marathon have been from Kenya. On the women's side, Kenyan runner have also won except for 2006 and 2007 (Devamani Sothie of Malaysia) and 2012 (Monika Fischer of Germany).

A beautiful card about the nations of the world getting along - if only. Plauen is located in eastern Germany, near the Czech border. There are about 65 000 people here which makes it roughly the same size as Medicine Hat.  An interesting fact about Plauen was a part of East Germany. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Plauen became the first East German city to open a McDonald's Restaurant. 

Reichenbach im Vogtland is located in eastern Germany, near the Czech border. One of the sites on the front of the card show the  Göltzschtalbrücke ( Göltzsch Viaduct). It was built between 1846 and 1851 as part of the railway between Saxony and Bavaria. It is the world's largest brick bridge, and for a time the tallest railway bridge in the world. It spans the valley of the  Göltzsch River. It is 574 m long, 23 m wide at the base, 9 m wide at the top, and 78 m tall at its highest point. There are over 26 million bricks in the bridge.  Between 1955 and 1958, the masonry was completely restored, and it wasn't until 1977 when placement of steel cover plates and other smaller jobs were completed.  It is infamous as a suicide bridge for 150 years. In August 2001 three teenagers jumped. A documentary film  Ein Tag mit Folgen: Teuflische Spiele  (A Day with Consequences: Diabolical Games),  was created about the event and how it changed the lives of the fami...