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4579 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A great lenticular card from Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney. The zoo is located in the Sydney suburb of Doonside and is home to a wide variety of native Australian animals. It is known for having one of the world's largest collections of Australian wildlife. The park features animal displays, special events and interactive experiences, giving visitors the opportunity to get up close with some of Australia's best-known wildlife. It specializes in native Australian animals, including birds, reptiles and marsupials.

4578 - Enfield, Connecticut, United States

Did you know that a female seal was called a cow? Did you know that a male seal is a bull? Did you know a baby seal is a calf? I did! But did you know??

4577 - Fukuoka, Japan

These New Year's wishes come from Fukuoka ( 福岡市) , the capital of Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū. The city is part of the heavily industrialized Fukuoka–Kitakyūshū zone, one of Japan's major industrial and economic regions. One of Fukuoka's more interesting attractions is Canal City Hakata (キャナルシティ博多), a large shopping and entertainment complex often described as a "city within a city." It features shops, cafés, restaurants, a theatre, an arcade, cinemas, two hotels and, as its name suggests, a canal that runs through the complex. Located between Fukuoka's two major commercial districts, Hakata and Tenjin, and adjacent to the city's entertainment district, Canal City has become a popular tourist attraction and a commercial success. Its distinctive architecture, fountains and open spaces create an atmosphere that feels almost like an oasis, with much of the surrounding city hidden from view. In 2017, the complex welcomed more than 17 million vi...

4576 - Incheon, South Korea

The sender comes from Incheon, but he card comes from Busan. The photo shows Bukcheonsa temple in Yeodgdo.  Bokcheonsa Temple  복천사  is a historic Korean Buddhist temple on the slopes of Bongnaesan Mountain in Yeongdo, Busan , overlooking the harbour and sea. Traditionally associated with the late-Goryeo monk Naong, it combines an old temple heritage with an unusually scenic hillside setting and is designated as one of Busan’s traditional temples.  Tradition holds that Naong (나옹화상) founded the temple in the late Goryeo period, although the precise date and circumstances are uncertain. It was historically known as Haeunam (해운암) and later Bokcheonam before taking its present name; in 2008, it was designated Traditional Temple No. 31.  Bokcheonsa is especially significant for its collection of Buddhist paintings, ritual objects, and texts. Its holdings include the Ksitigarbha and Ten Kings Painting , Amitabha Pure Land Assembly Painting , Josanggyeong , and other de...

4575 - Stanley, North Dakota, United States

Stanley is a city of approximately 2,300 people in northwestern North Dakota. Its economy is closely tied to the oil industry and the Bakken Formation, a major oil-producing geological formation that extends across northwestern North Dakota, northeastern Montana, and parts of southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Oil was first discovered in the Bakken Formation in the 1950s, but extracting it was considered too expensive with the technology available at the time. This changed in the late 2000s with advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which made extraction economically viable and sparked an oil boom in the region. The Bakken became one of the largest onshore oil-producing areas in the United States outside Texas and California. In a 2008 assessment, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that the Bakken Formation contained between 3.0 and 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil, with a mean estimate of 3.65 billion barrels.

4574 - Namwon, North Jeolla, South Korea

This is a great first-day cover card commemorating the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (2024년 동계 청소년 올림픽), held in Gangwon, South Korea. The card highlights cross-country skiing. The 2024 Winter Youth Olympics brought together more than 1,800 athletes representing 78 countries. Cross-country skiing featured 160 competitors and was held at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre (알펜시아 크로스컨트리 경기장) in Daegwallyeong-myeon. The five events and their gold medal winners were: Men's Sprint Freestyle: Federico Pozzi, Italy Men's 7.5 km Classic: Jakob Moch, Germany Women's Sprint Freestyle: Elsa Tänglander, Sweden Women's 7.5 km Classic: Nelli-Lotta Karppelin, Finland 4 × 5 km Mixed Relay: Sarah Hoffman, Jonas Müller, Lena Einsiedler and Jakob Moch, Germany Germany had the most successful cross-country skiing team, winning two gold and two silver medals. Sweden finished with a gold and a silver, while Finland collected a gold and a bronze.

4573 - Dettelbach, Bavaria, Germany

The sender is from Dettelback but the card comes from  Würzburg. In the picture is the Old Main Bridge. On the back, the caption about the photo reads:  Evening atmosphere at the Old Main Bridge. On the eastern side of the bridge—which was constructed as a stone structure between 1473 and 1543—stand the Town Hall, with its romantic "Grafeneckart" tower, and St. Kilian’s Cathedral. The bridge’s Baroque appearance, featuring statues of saints, was only added from 1730 onwards.