3333 - Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to
FC Köln and they play in the Bundesliga. In 2022-23, they finished in 11th place in the 18 team league.

FC Köln was formed in 1948 with a merger of two Cologne clubs. They won the German championship in 1962 and the Bundesliga twice - 1963-64 and 1977-78. They play at the RheinEnergieStadion in front of 50 000 spectators.

The club nickname is Die Geißböcke (the Billy Goats). They have a male goat named Hennes who is their live mascot. Currently the team is using Hennes IX at games. FC Köln has long-standing rivalries with Borussia Mönchengladbach, Fortuna Düsseldorf, and Bayer Leverkusen.

The current squad has players from Austria, Kosovo, Denmark, Greece, and Luxembourg on the team made up of mostly German players. The first-team assistant manager is Calgary born Kevin McKenna. McKenna played with FC Köln between 2007-2012. Internationally, McKenna has 63 caps and eleven goals. With FC Köln he played 141 matches and scored 11 times.

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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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