3805 - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yokohama 横浜 is a city of 3.7 million people and located on Tokyo Bay. It is a part of the Greater Tokyo Area, which has a population of 38 140 000 people, and a part of the Keihin Industrial Zone, which describes Yokohama, Tokyo, and Kawasaki as one industrial region. Yokohama is headquarters to Isuzu, Nissan, Keikyu, Bank of Yokohama, among many others.

Yokohama is home to many professional and amateur sports teams and associations. They best known is the Yokohama DeNA BayStars 横浜DeNAベイスターズ, who play in the Japanese Central League. The team has was formed in 1949 and has had many different names. DeNA is a software company and the main sponsor of the team. Yokohama is the current (2024) Japan Series champions. They have also won it it 1960 and 1998. Current Chicago Cubs pitcher, Shota Imanaga 今永昇太, played for the BayStars from 2016 - 2023. He signed a four year, $53 million contact. The Cubs also had to pay $9.825 million to the BayStars as a release fee.

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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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