3194 - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

The site the Adelaide Oval is located on was established after the formation of the South Australian Cricket Association in 1871. The grandstands have been built and re-built several times to accomodate a modern sports stadium. The oval is used mostly for cricket and Australian Rules Football, but has also been used for rugby league, rugby union, soccer, tennis, and concerts.

The Adelaide Strikers play in the Australian professional Twenty20 league since 2011. They have won the league championship once in the 2017-18 season.

The Adelaide Football Club Crows, the Australian Rules Football franchise, have played out of the Adelaide Oval since 2014. They have yet to win an AFL championship since moving to the Oval. Their previous championships came in 1997 and 1998. The women's side has won the championships in 2017, 2019, and 2022.

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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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