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 […]

I in the last time mentioned Filipino Martial Arts more often. So what do I have to do with them? I don’t have practical experience in them. But I since many years wonder about some facets of the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). My Uranus-IC-worldline runs through the Philippines. So I wonder if FMA would have […]

The French author Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne reported that a Madame Janus, wife of a medical doctor, in the 18th century ran a strange business. Madame Janus recruited girls from the countryside. These when employed by her had to do daily physical exercises, obey a strange diet, and to defend their virginity. Their job […]

In physics and chemistry, the degrees of freedom give the independent possibilities of a chemical or of a body to move through space. This is a prerequisite for figuring out the distribution of kinetic energy. There are at maximum nine degrees of freedom. Because in each of the dimensions of the three-dimensional space are three […]

To the purpose to test traditional astrological tenets about confinement, I had a look at the one or other political capture. Martin Armstrong in last January reported that South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk-Yeol would have got sentenced to five years in prison. So I searched an astrological event chart to the purpose to examine […]