2523 - Colchester, England, United Kingdom

I love receiving sports themed cards and this one is a great one. Clare tries to explain cricket to me on the back of her card and did a fairly good job.

Colchester is home to the Essex County Cricket Club, one of 18 first-class county clubs within the British cricket structure (England & Wales). The club was founded in 1876 and play at the County Ground in Chelmsford. In the First-Class league, Essex has won the championship eight times, the last being in 2019. They have also won the Division Two three times the last being in 2021.

Colchester is on the site of the first major Roman city in Roman Britain. It claims itself to be Britain's oldest recorded town. It was known as Camulodunum. It was a military garrison during Roman times and is the current home to the 16th Air Assault Brigade.

Colchester is located on the banks of the River Colne. It has an estimated population of almost 140 000.

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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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