Between Antiquity to the Early Middle Age, people at least in Europe lost many skills. Especially the loss of the abilities to read, to write, and to calculate caused several problems. People nowadays rely so much on computer programs that people nowadays again lose the skills of reading, writing, and calculating. The ability to calculate […]

Medieval people could build on a rich heritage from Antiquity, but also lost several abilities. Especially what required some central planning got lost because too few people could read, write, or calculate. Logistics for maintaining and running a palace was impossible, so that kings had to move from palatinate to palatinate. The medieval skills in […]

In my article ‘On Chinese Martial Arts’, I briefly mentioned that the Chinese government protects fraudulent martial arts “masters” and to this purpose “deplatformed” a renowned Chinese combat sportsman. The latter is Xú Xiǎodōng (徐 晓冬) and the allegedly fraudulent martial arts “masters” are Wèi Léi (魏 雷), who Xú Xiǎodōng (徐 晓冬) defeated in 2017, […]

I again watched the tv show of the two Catholic Priests. They this time talked about differences in Bible translations. The Priests couldn’t delve deep into this topic, not because they wouldn’t have known more, but because they wouldn’t have found an end. So the Priests answered questions, which got sent in by some viewers. […]

The nowadays hardly known historian Hans Prutz was renowned and respected during the late 19th century. So when he wrote that early Christendom and early Islam show striking similarities, nobody contradicted. To do so would have been difficult already because Hans Prutz didn’t make any own theory about Islam, but only quoted historical persons from […]

Although migration rather is a constant in history, there also was historical period, which historians call the Migration Period. This is the same time, which I already introduced as the Viking Era and as the Phantom Age. Historians did since latest the 19th century, when the nowadays hardly known historian Hans Prutz wrote what became […]

Chicago, Illinois, USA is another place, where evolution in the making can be watched, besides Allen’s rule being observable in Western Australia. Researchers of the Field Museum in Chicago compared samples of eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) and of eastern meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), that got collected in Chicago since more than 125 years. During that […]

While I still participated in online discussion forums (these are either gone or did change completely), I used anime character names as my nicknames. Once a self-proclaimed missionary told me that I’d been walking on the path to hell this way. I can only wonder about such a strange opinion. I don’t only make up […]

Years after graduating from school and hence not supposed to meet my main bully from elementary school again, I met my main bully from elementary school at one of the many festivals in our (his and my) village. This probably was the St. John Bonfire because it already was night and I was heading home. […]

MyAnimeList and Kadokawa and Honeyfeed teamed up to hold a writing contest, which will still go on until September, 29th. So I have to say sorry for reporting this so late that the contest already is half over. But I report this anyway for the sake of complaining about the stipulations, which I find impossible […]