3866 - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

This card is commemorating Canoe '22 - ICF Canoe Spring and Paracanoe World Championships, which were held at Lake Banook, near Halifax, right across the harbour from Dartmouth.

In International Canoe Federation (ICF) was formed in 1946 and administers all aspects of canoe sport worldwide. There are 157 member countries.

There are four disciplines:

Flatwater - canoe sprint, canoe marathon, dragon boat, canoe polo, paracanoe, and va'a
Ocean - canoe ocean racing, canoe sailing, wave-ski, and surf ski
Whitewater/Wildwater - canoe slalom, wildwater canoeing, canoe freestyle
Flatwater & Ocean - standup paddle-boarding.

Lake Banook was the site for the 2022 Canoe Sprint World Championships from August 3 - 7, 2022. Germany won the most medals with 14 (2 gold, 7 silver, 5 bronze), but Spain won the overall medal table with 8 medals (4 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze). Canada finished fourth with six medals (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). On the paracanoe side, Great Britain was the overall champion with 10 medals (5 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze), while Canada tied for eighth overall with Chile and France with two medals (1 silver, 1 bronze).

Lake Banook is home to three sprint rowing and kayak clubs, two rowing clubs, and a dragon boat club. It also claims to be the birthplace of hockey. Banook is Mi'kmaq for "first lake." Besides the 2022 Canoe Sprint World Championships, it has also hosted canoe/kayak for the 1969 Canada Summer Games, the World Junior Canoe Sprint Championships in 1989, the Senior World Canoe Sprint Championship in 1997, the World Canoe Marathon Championship in 2000, and the Senior World Sprint Championships in 2009.

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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