3344 - Pasadena, California, United States of America

A rare repeat card for me (that's not a Postcard Day card). The other sender of the card is also from the Los Angeles area (small world).

Pasadena in located in Los Angeles County and 18 km north east of Los Angeles. Its population was almost 139 000 people at the last census (2020).

Pasadena is home to California Institute of Technology, or Caltech. All the male leads, and one of the female leads, all work at Caltech in the television sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Padadena is also the home of the Rose Bowl, where the UCLA Bruins football team play. It's also hosted five Super Bowls. It was used in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics for soccer; hosted the final game of the 1994 FIFA World Cup; and the final game of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.

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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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