A balloonist had to find that he lost orientation. He sees a man on the ground, so lets the balloon sink and asks the man: “Excuse me! Can you help me? I had promised to a friend to meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am!” The man on the […]

Elsa from the ELSAELSA blog sometimes talks about egregores. Because the egrogore is an important concept in magick, so I wanted to give a definition. But while I was pondering over this topic, Elsa already gave a definition better than I could have done it: “Egregore” can be defined as a non-physical entity created by […]

In the night between November, 24th and November, 25th in last year, ten-thousand cartridges for pistols in caliber 9 mm, nine-thousand-nine-hundred blank cartridges for the G36 assault rifle, and fifteen pieces of pyrotechnical ammunition owned by the Bundeswehr got stolen in Burg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This had been unthinkable beforehand. Due to reducing and then abolishing […]

Bivoj is asteroid #5797 and also known as 1980 AA. Bivoj measures four-hundred meters in diameter. Bivoj belongs to the Near-Earth Asteroids of the Amor group and is a Mars-orbit-crosser. Bivoj’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 1.89 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.44, a period of revolution of 952 days, and an […]

Mohandās Karamchand Gāndhī (मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी; in Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), better known as Mahātmā Gāndhī (महात्मा गांधी), is quite famous and a big role in India’s way to independence is attributed to him. His religious and political beliefs however had by most Indians been rejected. Non-Indians were alienated by his ideas. So much that […]

Skip is asteroid #1884 and also known as 1943 EB1. Skip measures approximately 8.4 km in diameter. Skip’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.43 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.26, a period of revolution of 1’381 days, and an inclination of 21.8 degrees. Skip was discovered by the French astronomer Marguerite Laugier […]

 There’s a name, that appears in several anime. Sometimes the name gets a little bit modified. For example in the anime series Detective Conan. Hattori Heizō (服部 平蔵) in the anime series Detective Conan is a Superintendent Supervisor of the police in Ōsaka (大阪). He also is the father of Hattori Heiji (服部 平次), who […]

On March, 3rd in this year is the international Unique Names Day. It always is on the third day of the International Celebrate Your Name Week, which in 1997 got initiated by Jerry Hill, who researches names. Other days of the International Celebrate Your Name Week also are fancy holidays related to names. A name […]

In a previous article, I passed on the news that a conductor got killed by a fare dodger. I referred to both persons by their alleged age. This and pseudonyms are usual in German news. The privacy of friends and relatives of the involved persons shall get protected this way. But family members of the […]

Tanga is asteroid #1595 and also known as 1930 ME. Tanga measures twenty-seven kilometers in diameter and is of the type C. Tanga’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.64 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.11, a period of revolution of 1’571 days, and an inclination of 4.2 degrees. Tanga was discovered by […]