Maximum card/ carte maximum/ maximumkarte: Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Stoop - there it is...

The fastest animal on the planet in its hunting dive, the stoop, which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds commonly said to be over 320 km/h (199 mph), and hitting one wing of its prey so as not to harm itself on impact.

In 2005, Ken Franklin recorded a falcon stooping at a top speed of 389 km/h (242 mph).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mTPEuFcWk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Virtual maximum card / carte maximum / maximumkarte : Stripeless, Snow White Tiger

Akbar Kabul, a Snow White tiger at The Mirage, in a time when the Siegfried & Roy show was dwarfing all the other Vegas shows. Beasts, but not of burden.

Not for every spectator/tourist: some were more into watching a Bad, Bad Queen of the Las Vegas...strip (I mean Strip, boulevard) or into biting from the forbidden fruit (apple).

Aye, ho!...aye, ho...not you, Bambi!

Thus, some of those tourists volunteered for their own Cirque de la Nuit.

Les Misérables...or, if you want to excuse somebody's French: Ley Mizerabb!...desperate for a FEMfatal to happen in Vegas, and stay in Vegas. A hard twist on French, as if Brett FaRVe is driving a DISLEXUS...

If not, there's always gambling (gaming is the official term) and boozing. Both around the clock.

Anagram: SLOT MACHINES = CASH LOST IN ME or CASH LOST IN 'EM.

Keyword: Mirage. A Wynn-Win situation. Steve Wynn - his mind has a far better vision than his eyes.

Maximum cards: white sturgeon, the largest freshwater fish in America

Not from the bowels of Hell, but from... Hells Canyon, Idaho (I-da-ho?), says this postcard:
From the 40-stamp series "Wonders of America". Look at the fish, not at the guy.

:)

He is not fishing for compliments.

The postmark in the second maximum card is almost invisible - that post office didn't have superior ink. That's why a label under the postmark would have made it visible.

Now that you're done looking at the fish, go ahead and look at Macho Camacho / Muscleman / Chess champion Bobby The Fisher (yeah, right).

"Like a sturgeon.../Caught...for the/ Very FIRST time..."

Pick your preferred name:

"The white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus, meaning "sturgeon beyond the mountains"), also known as the Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, and California white sturgeon, is a sturgeon (a fish of the family Acipenseridae) which lives along the west coast of North America from the Aleutian Islands to Central California.

It is the largest freshwater fish in North America and is the third largest species of sturgeon, after the Beluga [not beluga the dolphin - Dorin's note] and the Kaluga. The white sturgeon is known to reach a maximum size of 816 kg (1,798 lb) and 6.1 m (20.1 ft)." (http://www.wikipedia.org)

Beluga, Kaluga...wait till you see Azuga!

Nah...just kidding. That's a small city in Romania :D, renowned for skiing slopes and beer brewing. Two activities that can knock you down.

http://www.primariaazuga.ro/module.php?module=newsannounce&catid=105&item=722