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.

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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