3858 - Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America

The City of Virginia Beach, or VB as the locals call it, is the biggest city by population in Virginia. There is almost a half of million people in the city. It's on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. It's a resort city with many kilometres of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its ocean front.

Cape Henry, near the point were the Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay meet, was the site of the first landing of the English colonists who eventually settled in Jamestown.

VB was established in 1906. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was once the longest bridge-tunnel complex in the world at 28.3 km. However, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge 港珠澳大橋 significantly beat the record in 2018 at 55 km. It was designed to last 120 years.

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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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