Many people imagine heaven as a place, where you each day eat your favorite food and each day are only engaged in your favorite activity. But how many days would it your favorite food need to be no longer your favorite food? How long would you need until you even couldn’t look at it anymore? […]

During my time as a conscript, I served in a military truck driving school. This officially belonged to a paramedics battalion. The German army during that time was already shrinking due to a reform. This meant for the truck driving school that it was merged with another military truck driving school (belonging to a communicator […]

The Spanish-German merchant Silvio Gesell could be another German peculiarity if a person could be a peculiarity, but he also was Spanish and lived many years in Argentina. Silvio Gesell at the end of the nineteenth century was born into a family of merchants. He was a native speaker of Spanish as well as of […]

While something seems to be true about the connection between “a person to have food & shelter from government funds” and confinement, I still have two problems with this connection. One of them is that even rich people can be imprisoned. Martin Armstrong is a good example because he got imprisoned for exclusively political reasons […]

Iolanda is asteroid #509 and also known as 1903 LR. Iolanda is a common stony asteroid. Iolanda’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.06 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.09, a period of revolution of 1 958 days, and an inclination of 15.4 degrees. Iolanda was discovered by the German (from Baden, a […]

Princetonia is asteroid #508 and also known as 1903 LQ. Princetonia is a carbonaceous asteroid. Princetonia’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.16 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.02, a period of revolution of 2 053 days, and an inclination of 13.4 degrees. Princetonia was discovered by the American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan […]

The English word castle had for many years been quite confusing to me because it has two German translations: Burg and Schloß. Burg means a medieval castle, while Schloß means a Renaissance castle. These are very different from each other. I in a previous article already gave a description of the function of a medieval […]

Some things in history can be much better understood if later developments are examined earlier. One thing, which characterized early Renaissance, were the travels of the discoverers. These travels, including those of Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, or Christoph Columbus, would have been impossible if not a Portuguese prince, who is known as “the Navigator”, […]

I complained that Wikipedia really spreads plenty of nonsense about aikidō (合気道) and tried to put things straight. I meanwhile understand how the Wikipedia article was made. The problem again is that a mere re-mixer has been hyped as an Artificial Intelligence and was allowed to remix some texts, which resulted in that Wikipedia article. […]

“The Beginners’ Spirit” is an article, which I wrote quite a while ago. Jesse Enkamp is a social media star and also a great writer. So his article about encounters with beginners also is a good read, especially for those, who want to understand the concept of the beginners’ spirit.