In 2016, I somehow suffered a heel spur (plantar fasciitis) and somehow got it again at the end of 2025. When I gathered information on what this pain is, I found a website, where somebody explained that he wouldn’t wish this disease to his worst enemy. I wonder a little what he wishes to his […]

Ob is asteroid #16563 and also known as 1992 BF2. Ob’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.13 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.10, a period of revolution of 2’020 days, and an inclination of twelve and a half degrees. Ob measures 16 km in diameter. Ob was discovered by the Belgian astronomer […]

On the Iberian Peninsula (that is where Portugal and Spain are located) during the Middle Ages went on the so-called Reconquista. This was to take back the land from the Moors. This happened in three stages, which really coincided with the Early, High, and Late Middle Age. Reconquista is Spanish and means reconquering. Afterwards, with […]

When looking at medieval ruins in Europe, then you easily find that the buildings had been made for very short people. Especially doors reveal this. The skeletons of people from Early Stone Age also are very short. The size of old Japanese people of today. So you could easily commit the fallacy that humans throughout […]

During his search for the true roots of karate, Jesse Enkamp indeed found and visited the Southern Shàolín (少林) Temple/ Monastery in Fújiàn (福建) Province. He documented this in a YouTube tetralogy, which has a really long list of credits. He in only one of the four parts visited the monastery. He there played around […]

During the Late Middle Age died two thirds of all Europeans. This is so difficult to imagine that authors writing about this topic recently began to reduce the number more and more. But two thirds is realistic because the Late Middle Age saw not only one epidemic. The victims of several epidemics summed up to […]

The movement of tilting the sole of the foot to the rear, so that the toes point downward, is called pronation. The movement of tilting the sole of the foot to the front is called supination. (But already languages as closely related to English as German use the word pronation for the eversion and the […]

The Catholic Church still from time to time declares the one or other of its members a Saint. To qualify for this rank requires to cause at least two miracles. Most popular are healing miracles. These have to be medically inexplicable and this has to be confirmed by independent experts. For those Catholics, who during […]

Europol and the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation in last November confiscated from Cryptomixer, a business specialized in mixing and thus anonymizing cryptocurrency transactions, three servers, several mail accounts, twelve Terabyte of data, Bitcoin worth twenty-five-million Euro, and the domain cryptomixer.io, so that Cryptomixer doesn’t exist anymore. Cryptomixer was a Swiss service, which was […]

This sounds like a fictional history drama and was often treated this way, but it really happened: The French shepherd Stephen of Cloyes (or in the French original: Étienne de Cloyes), when he was thirteen years young during the time of the Crusades, attempted to go from the north of France to the Holy Land […]