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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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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