4006 - Austin, Texas, United States

Did you know that Austin is home to the Austin Outlaws and five time champion of Major League Quadball? Quadball is another name for quidditch, the game featured in the Harry Potter novels. Due to author JK Rowling's views on transgender people and to avoid potential legal battles with Warner Bros Studios, the league changed the name from Major League Quidditch, to Major League Quadball.

Major League Quadball has 15 teams - 13 in the United States and 2 in Canada - and was founded in 2015. Teams play in three geographically divided divisions. Teams play teams only in their division. The top four teams in each division make the playoffs, with the top 2 teams getting berths in the quarterfinals, while the 3rd and 4th ranked teams have to play a play-in game. The winner of the playoffs wins the Benepe Cup.

The Austin Outlaw won the Benepe Cup in 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Their state sisters, the San Antonio Soldados are the current champions.

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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...

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.

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