3382 - Columbia, Maryland, United States of America

Columbia is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages. There are 105 000 people that live in Columbia and it is a part of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, which has about 2.9 million people.

These are the villages that Columbia comprises of:

Wilde Lake – (Est. 1967) Bryant Woods, Faulkner Ridge, Running Brook
Harper's Choice – (Est. 1968) Longfellow, Swansfield, Hobbit's Glen
Oakland Mills – (Est. 1969) Thunder Hill, Talbott Springs, Stevens Forest
Long Reach – (Est. 1971) Phelps Luck, Jeffers Hill, Locust Park, Kendall Ridge
Owen Brown – (Est. 1972) Dasher Green, Elkhorn, Hopewell
Town Center – (Est. 1974) Vantage Point, Banneker, Amesbury, Creighton's Run, and Warfield Triangle
Hickory Ridge – (Est. 1974) Clemens Crossing, Hawthorn, Clary's Forest
Kings Contrivance – (Est. 1977) Macgill's Common, Huntington, Dickinson
Dorsey's Search – (Est. 1980) Dorsey Hall, Fairway Hills
River Hill – (Est. 1990) Pheasant Ridge, Pointers Run

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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.

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...

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