2511 - Moscow, Russia

A great card from Tatiana of Otkritie Arena (Spartak Stadium) in Moscow. It is a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for football matches. It is the home of Spartak Moscow and one of the stadiums used by the Russian national team. It was also one of the stadiums that hosted the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The stadium includes a monument to the Starostin brothers, founders of FC Spartak Moscow, as well as a 25.5 metre statue of the Roman gladiator Spartacus, for whom the club is named in honour of.

FC Spartak Moscow will be celebrating its centenary in April 2022. In its history, Spartak has:

12 Soviet champions (second most after Dynamo Kyiv)
10 Russian championships
10 Soviet Cups
3 Russian Cups
1 Russian Super Cup
1 USSR Federation Cup
reached the semi-finals of all three European club competitions.

Today, of the 30 men on the roster, 21 are Russian, with France, Belgium, Dutch, Brazilian, Nigeria, Argentina, Sweden, and Jamaican men rounding out the rest of the roster.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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