3978 - Dallas, Texas, United States

This card is coming from a Canadian ex-pat living and working in Dallas as a registered nurse. So many Canadians work in Dallas as health care workers.

This card is a souvenir of the State Fair of Texas. It takes place at Fair Park in Dallas and started in 1886. The two World Wars and COVID-19 cancelled fairs in 1918, 1942, 1943, 1944, and 2020. It begins the last Friday of September (a week from today as I write this) and ends 24 days later. It averages about two million visitors.

A big part of the fair is the annual college football game between Oklahoma and Texas, known as the Red River Rivalry. It is played at the Cotton Bowl located on state fair grounds. There is also the State Fair Classic between Grambling State University and Prairie View A&M University.

The fair has had its fair (no pun intended) share of controversy. The fair is located in a depressed neighbourhood and the fair actually creates real estate values to go down. Neighbourhood businesses also lose money while the fair is on.

Racial discrimination also mars the history of the fair. The fair would only allowed African-Americans in on "Colored People's Day" until 1910. He reappeared as Negro Achievement Day in 1936 to coincide with the Texas Centennial Explosition. African-Americans were not allowed to participate in entertainment or eat at restaurants and concession stands on other days.

The fair also once had a Ku Klux Klan Day, and as recently as the 1980s, a day dedicated to the Confederate States of America.

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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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