3589 - Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany

We just talked about the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association in the United States so lets move the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) of Germany and the Rockets. The Rockets are based in Gotha, but play their home games in Erfurt at the Turnhalle KGS Gotha, capacity 500 people. The Rockets were founded in 1998 as the Oettinger Rockets and started in the Bezirksliga - the fifth tier of German basketball.

The Rockets dropped the Oettinger moniker after the main sponsor, Oettinger Brauerei, left. They were just known as the Rockets since then.

The Rockets won the ProB title in 2011-12 season. Their only championship in any league as of now.

The Rockets made the BBL in 2017-18, but finished in 17th place and was relegated back to the ProA League.

Their current roster includes an all German team with an American - Robert Franklin - and a Slovak - Peter Kancir.

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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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