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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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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