3781 - Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany

Ingolstadt is a city of almost 150 000 people located on the Danube. It was firt mentioned in documents in 806. It was a capital city of the one of the Bavarian duchies. In 1472 it opened the first university in Bavaria.

Hockey and football are extremely popular in Ingolstadt. Ingolstadt is home ot ERC Ingolstadt, who play in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), the highest level of professional hockey in Germany. It won its only DEL championships in 2014. They went in as an underdog, finishing 9th in league play. The Panthers - the nickname of ERC Ingolstadt - upset Eisbären Berlin in overtime in a playoff qualification game. They went on to eliminate Krefeld Pinguine (2nd seed), Hamburg Freezers (1st seed), and Kölner Haie in seven games in the championship final. The Panthers had finished the regular season with 21 wins, 22 losses, and 6 losses in a shootout or overtime. They would go to lose in the championship final the next season (2014-15) and again in 2022-23.

The current roster features eight Canadians on the team: Mat Bodie, Alex Breton, Morgan Ellis, Michael Garteig, Abbott Girduckis, Austen Keating, Myles Power, and Riley Sheen.

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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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