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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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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