2428 - Pune, Maharashtra, India

At 7.4 million people, Pune is India's 7th most populous city. It has been voted as India's most livable city several times. Pune is India's second major IT Hub of India and the automobile and manufacturing hub of India. "Oxford of the East" is how Pune has been described, as Pune has 18 universities including Savitribal Phule Pune University, the National Defence Academy, and National Institute of Politics and Economics. There are 30 schools for engineering and technology. And eight medical colleges, including the Armed Forces Medical College.

Pune has several professional sports teams based here. The Pune 7 Aces is the professional badminton team that plays in the Premier Badminton League. The Aces have players from India, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam on the team.

While scrolling through sports in Pune I found a sport called kabaddi. Kabaddi is a contact sport between two teams of seven players. The objective is for a single player on offences, known as the raider, to run into the opposing team's half of court and touch out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders, and in a single breath. Points are scored for each player tagged by the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are touched or tackled, but are brought back in for each point scored by their team from a tag or tackle. Puneri Paltan is Pune's kabaddi team and they play in the Pro Kabaddi League. There are 12 teams in the league, with Bengal Warriors being the current champs. In 1936 at the Berlin Olympics, Kabaddi was a demonstration sport.

3227 - Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Mölln is a small city of about 20 000 located in northern Germany. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal flows through the town, and there are eight small lakes that surround the city. It was founded in the 12th century and was a part of the Old Salt Route. Salt that was produced in the salt mines of Lower-Saxony was shipped to the Baltic Sea. Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary trickster known for exposing vices and provoking thought, is said to have lived in Mölln the last year of his life. He apparently died of the plague in 1350, but his existence has never been proven. Mölln has several monuments dedicated to him.

3322 - Hamburg, Germany

Happy birthday to me! What a lovely handmade card from the sender. Beautiful penmanship. Am Rothenbaum is the site of the main court of the German Open Tennis Championships. The International German Open has been played at the Rothernbaum since 1892, making it Germany's longest running tennis tournament. The current stadium was built in 1999 and can hold 13 200 people.

3232 - Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America

The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light was built in 1882. There were nine keepers of the light until 1897. It was redesigned in 1903 and is 12 meters high. The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal was started in 1872 and wasn't opened for large-scale watercraft until 1890. The canal is 2.1 kilometers long that goes from Sturgeon Bay in Lake Michigan to Green Bay. There are no locks on this canal. The canal was sold to the United States government in 1893 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the canal.

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