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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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!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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