2521 - Sandy, Utah, USA

Miranda is a writer and just released her first book entitled WonderLand. It is an Alice
in Wonderland retelling. It looks to be book 1 of a series. The summary goes like this:

Kaleb "Rabbit" White hates everything about his life, especially his job at Red Queen Inc. He had plans to quit until a company experiment went wrong, killing an entire room full of people....except for one: Alice. It's been four years since Alice survived the virus responsible for her mother's death. She's managing to keep the side effects of WonderLand under control and is doing her best to put the trauma of her past behind her. Then, she receives a notecard with one word on it: "Run." Alice needs answers. Kaleb wants to protect her. Trapped inside Red Queen Inc, they must work together to find a way out. But first Alice needs to find the cure.

Miranda's card is colour wood engraving of "The Bodleian Library, Oxford," but the artist is unknown. The Bodleian Library is the main research library at the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It is named after Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), the founder of the library.

The library has one of the only 21 surviving copies of a Gutenberg Bible (c 1455). It has Shakespeare's First folio from 1623. The Bay Psalm Book from 1640 is one of only 11 surviving copies of the first book printed in North America. There is also the first book printed in Arabic with moveable type found here.

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3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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