As already mentioned in some articles, the Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium) was the successor and heir of the Roman Empire (Imperium Romanum) and the inhabitants believed in continuity, not in representing something new. So what was the East Roman Empire then? According to Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler, it was a different culture, which […]

Urhixidur is asteroid #501 and also known as 1903 LB. Urhixidur’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.17 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.14, a period of revolution of 2 059 days, and an inclination of 20.9 degrees. Urhixidur was discovered by the German (from Baden, a grand-dukedom with Karlsruhe as the capital, […]

Today is Name Yourself Day. I’m clueless about its background. Maybe you could give a nickname to yourself for the sake of preventing that a bully gives you a bad nickname? I already had so many nicknames that I forgot most of them and I don’t miss them, so I know by experience that giving […]

Selinur is asteroid #500 and also known as 1903 LA. Selinur’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.62 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.15, a period of revolution of 1 544 days, and an inclination of 9.8 degrees. Selinur was discovered by the German (from Baden, a grand-dukedom with Karlsruhe as the capital, […]

The Hong-Kong Special Administrative Region has several small parks also in its urban parts. I was very glad about this because living amidst concrete is difficult for somebody like me, who grew up on a farm in a rural area. So I was always looking for some refuge and so several of the pictures, which […]

Some protagonists of fictional stories have natal charts. These are valid. I think this is because some authors know something about astrology. So I wonder whether fictional stories could be derived from astrology. The protagonist gets a natal chart. Then follows an analysis of progressions and transits. After that, the author simply invents events, which […]

I during the last days wasted many hours by watching YouTube video clips on aikidō (合気道) and its ancestor art daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu (大東流 合気柔術). By the way, the difference between daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu (大東流 合気柔術) and aikidō (合気道) is that in the latter circular moves are done, where daitō-ryū aiki-jūjutsu (大東流 合気柔術) has wave-like up and […]

Tokio is asteroid #498 and also known as 1902 KU and as A900 EB. Tokio is of the type M. Tokio’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.65 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.23, a period of revolution of 1 576 days, and an inclination of 9.5 degrees. Tokio was discovered by the […]

Hakkei (発勁) is Japanese for fājìn (發勁). The Communists simplified fā (發) to 发, while the Japanese made their own simplification (shinjitai) to 発. Japanese has many different pronunciations for this kanji. But the meaning is in all cases the same. Hakkei (発勁) as well as fājìn (發勁) are known in the martial arts and […]

The following is a freeze frame from the anime series Fairy Tail. It shows the stellar spirit Virgo. Although more stellar spirits are starring in the anime, only Virgo gets such entrances. But this is a great entrance, so I wished that more stellar spirits would have got entrances of this style. At least the […]