3551 - Venray, Limburg, Netherlands

This card is a part of a series called Famous Dutch Sayings. In this one the card translates to talking about cows and calves, which means "talking about all kinds of unimportant things."

Venray is a town and a part of the municipality of Venray, which consists of 14 towns. I think a municipality in the NEtherlands is similar to a county in Canada. Most of the people in this municipality, 30 000 of the 44 000 of them, live in Venray (town).

Venray is home to the St. Peter ad Vincula Church. It hosts one of the largest medieval collections of wooden sculptures that survived the iconoclasm (destruction of icons) of the protestant reformation in the Netherlands. The church was built in the 1400s in the gothic style. It was heavily damaged in World War II and has since been rebuilt.

Venray was the site of many battles in late World War II. The Battle of Overloon was the largest and was the biggest tank battle between the Germans and Allies in October of 1944. The Germans lost 600 men, while the Allies lost almost 1900 men, including three aircraft and 40 tanks.

Venray is also the site for its German War Cemetery, the only one in the Netherlands. Almost 32 000 German soldiers are buried here.

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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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