3277 - Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States of America

Mount Pleasant is small, Iowa city of just over 9200 people, located in south east Iowa. It was founded in 1835.

The first female lawyer in the United States, Arabella Mansfield, spent her childhood in Mount Pleasant, and then attended Iowa Wesleyan College. Due to the American Civil War, universities were admitting more women into universities. At first, she taught at Des Moines Conference Seminary in Indianola. She returned to Mount Pleasant after a year to marry Melvin Mansfield. Her husband encouraged her to pursue her ambition to study law. She took the Iowa law bar exam in 1869 and passed in with high scores. Mansfield challenged the law that didn't permit women to join the bar. As such, Iowa became the first state to admit women to the bar. She concentrated on college teaching and activist work. She taught at Iowa Wesleyan College, and then at DePauw University in Indiana. She joined the National League of Women Lawyers in 1893. She was active in women's suffrage and worked with Susan B. Anthony. Mansfield died in 1911 and missed seeing the Nineteenth Amendment the United States Constitution (voting rights to women) in 1920.

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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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