3560 - Naruto, Tokushima, Japan

Cute card from a university student in Japan. They want to be a junior high history teacher. Best job ever!

Naruto 鳴門市 is found on Shikoku island and has a population of 55 000 people - small when one thinks of the Japanese mega-cities. The Naruto University of Education 鳴門教育大学 is found here. Perhaps that is where the sender is studying to become a history teacher!

Naruto is home to the Tokushima Indigo Socks 徳島インディゴソックス, who play in the Shikoku Island League Plus. It is an independent professional baseball league of four teams found on Shikoku. The league was founded in 2005 by for Nippon Professional Baseball star Hiromichi Ishige.

In 2015, an all-star team of Shikoku Island League traveled to North America and played every team in the Can-Am League in North America. The all-stars went 6 wins against 10 losses. They did it again in 2016 and finished at 8 wins to 12 losses.

The league has four teams - the Ehime Mandarin Pirates, the Kagawa Olive Guyners, the Kōchi Fighting Dogs, and the Indigo Socks. There are also three defunct teams - Fukuoka Red Warblers, the Mie Three Arrows, and the Nagasaki Saints.

The Olive Guyners have won the most league championships with seven, while the Indigo Socks are second with six. The last time the Indigo Socks took the league championships was in 2017. Technically they were also the league champions in 2020. They were in first place, but the playoffs were cancelled due to COVID-19.

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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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