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3540 - San Jose, California, United States of America

A great card from San Jose. The sender admits she is not much of a sports person, but does keep up on her favourite National Basketball Association team (Boston Celtics) and her favourite Formula 1 team (Mercedes AMA Petronas).  This is one of those great National Parks cards. Badlands National Park is located in south west South Dakota. It protects almost 1000 square kilometres of land that consists of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles and undisturbed mixed grass prairie. The National Park Service and the Oglala Lakota Tribe co-managed the park.  The park was established as a national monument on 25 January 1939, and became a national park on 10 November 1978. The American movies, Dances with Wolves  and Thunderheart  were partially filmed here.  The park have many animals including badgers, bighorn sheep, bison, black-billed magpie, black-footed ferrets, black-tailed prairie dogs, bobcats, coyote, elk, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, prairie rattlesnakes, por...