3952 - Cañon City, Colorado, United States of America

Since I am a year behind on this blog, the sender of this card has moved from a "small town outside of Austin, Texas" to Cañon City in Colorado in that year.

Cañon City is a town of just over 17 000 and is the principle city in the Micropolitan Statistical Area (that's a new one - micropolitan). The Arkansas River flows along the town. Because of this, the town is a popular tourist destination for sightseeing, whitewater rafting, and rock climbing.

Cañon City also is one of the very few towns in the United States to have a tilde in their name (the accent over the n). It was officially changed in 1994 by the United States Board of Geographic Names. The others are: La Cañada Flintridge, California; Española, New Mexico; Peñasco, New Mexico; and Peñitas, Texas.

Cañon City also owns the Royal Gorge Bridge. From 1929 to 2001, it held the record as the world's highest bridge. It spans 384 metres over the Arkansas River at a height of 291 metres. The Liuguanghe Bridge in China surpassed that height in 2001. It then owned the record for the world's highest suspension bridge until 2003 when another Chinese bridge, the Guanxing Highway Bridge was completed. It remains the highest bridge in the United States.

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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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