3023 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Yanzhi sent me a first day cover from 2000 of a boy named Miguel Alzona of New South Wales. The title of the series is the Face of Australia. I think it must be a series of first day covers to honour the many cultures found in Australia.

Melbourne has two semi-pro hockey teams - the Melbourne Ice and the Melbourne Mustangs. Both teams play in the Australian Ice Hockey League, established in 2000 and supports eight teams (wth two more coming in 2023). The AIHL champion is awarded the Goodall Cup, the world's third oldest ice hockey trophy, first played for in 1909. The current champion are the CBR Brave (Canberra). The Newcastle Northstars have the most AIHL championships with six.

The Melbourne Ice have been in the AIHL since 2002 and have won four Goodall Cups and H. Newman Reid Trophies (awarded to the top team in the regular season). Their current roster includes one Canadian, Mac Caruana.

The Melbourn
e Mustangs play in the same arena as the Ice. They were founded in 2010 and have won the Goodall Cup and H. Newman Reid Trophy once. Their current roster includes four Canadians - Brendan Connors, Ty Wishart, Scott Timmins, and Jordan Warren - and their head coach, Chris Lawrence is also from Canada.

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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.

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!

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