The Olympic Games of 2020 in 2021 were interesting because of their many scandals. They were unprecedented and sportsmen also aren’t too fond of scandals. So the Olympic Games of 2020 in 2021 couldn’t be expected to set a new standard. At least not for Olympic Games, which take place in their announced years. So […]

I recently had to find that my article ‘On Astrological House Systems’ contains some errors. I can’t recall from where I got the pieces of information on Alcabitius Houses and Koch Houses. I probably had just asked a search engine because Howard Sasportas’ book (which I, after checking my bookshelf, seemingly confounded with Ralph Holden’s […]

Although I trained in karatedō (空手道) and in aikidō (合気道) and rather enthusiastically for several years in each of these martial arts, I had never imagined that Ueshiba Morihei (植芝 盛平), the founder of aikidō (合気道), could have such a big influence on the development of karatedō (空手道) as he really had. (A part of […]

On November, 25th in each year is the Orion Nebula Day. It’s the anniversary of the French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc in 1610 discovering that the object, which nowadays is known as M42, is a nebula. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc from 1580 until 1637 lived on the material plane and could discover the nebula […]

A German computer scientist, whose blog I sometimes use as a source, re-blogged a tweet on the colored syrup, which is sold under the name Fanta. (I otherwise would never know about such stupid tweets.) A John Wick (this surname by the way is in Germany a registered trademark for cough medication) compared the color […]

Tisiphone is asteroid #466 and also known as 1901 FX. Tisiphone is of the type C. Tisiphone’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.40 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.08, a period of revolution of 2 249 days, and an inclination of 19.2 degrees. Tisiphone was discovered by the German (from Baden, a […]

I have to make a correction to my article ‘On the Translation of Shutō (手刀)’. I there wrote ‘you can’t execute just a shutō (手刀) instead of either a shutō-uchi (手刀打ち) or a shutō-uke (手刀受け).’ In training, you should clearly distinguish the techniques. But you also have to be able to adapt to real life situations! […]

Alekto is asteroid #465 and also known as 1901 FW. Alekto’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.09 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.21, a period of revolution of 1 983 days, and an inclination of 4.7 degrees. Alekto was discovered by the German (from Baden, a grand-dukedom with Karlsruhe as the capital, […]

A German computer scientist, whose blog I sometimes use as a source, re-blogged the rant of a policeman, who complained about a “personified hazard” having returned to Germany after German policemen had invested years of efforts to bring this “personified hazard”, Kahlil El Zein with name, to his homeland Lebanon. Kahlil El Zein obviously had […]

Megaira is asteroid #464 and also known as 1901 FV and as A901 AB. Megaira is a non-family asteroid from the Asteroid Main Belt’s background population and of the type C (SMASS II) or FXU (Tholen). Megaira’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.81 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.20, a period of […]