The Magyars raided and looted Central Europe since 899 A.D. King Otto the Great ended this terror in 955 A.D. in the Second Battle of Lechfeld. King Otto the Great had with some of his knights still been on the way to his army’s camp, when the Magyars main force suddenly discovered and attacked him. […]
Several critiques on astrology did I find in an article from an author, who obviously disrespects astrology. Yet the article still is very interesting because it’s based on more thorough research than the articles of most proponents of astrology and hence very unusual for critics of astrology. I did learn something from this article. Proponents […]
The word of Jesus demanding that you should give to the emperor what belongs to the emperor belong to the most famous of Jesus’ words and of the christian tenets. Clerics and governments love it because they can easily interpret and teach that it means that you have to pay your taxes. Yet the sentence […]
This is one of the few interesting fancy holidays from Germany. In 2018, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie (German Society for Surgery of the Hand) decided that on March, 1st in each year is the Day of the Hand. Why this day was chosen is unclear, but it most likely got marked by establishing the […]
In asocial media in Germany was a flyer described, which shall circulate in Arab countries and give information on Germany. This information shall many Arabs motivate to move to Germany. Besides explaining rights and expected manners, the flyer also tells in Arabian that police forces in Germany would ignore theft, robbery, middle degree bodily harm, […]
Did you ever wonder what liù-hé (六合) like in xīn-yì-liù-hé-quán (心意六合拳) means? I wondered about it since I encountered the name xīn-yì-liù-hé-quán (心意六合拳). So I solved the mystery. Harmony is a bad translation for hé (合). Better would be combination. Then liù-hé (六合) means the six combinations. It refers to several Chinese concepts and shouldn’t […]
Unsaturated fatty acids are since many decades known as essential for the human nutrition. Essential in this context means that the substance can’t be produced by the human body, yet belongs to its components. Unsaturated fatty acids of the omega-3 type are constituents of cell membranes and play roles in regulating down inflammations and pain, […]
Today is the International Pokémon Day! A great day for showing freeze frames. I’m unfortunately running out of storage space for my freeze frames. Hence I limit myself to showing only one of them: Snowy is a Vulpix of the Alola regional form and belongs to the non-player main character Lillie. It has the ice […]
Do you know Joss and Janik? They are a Mexican girl and a German guy, who are a couple and run a YouTube channel together. Although I still don’t recommend to watch any videos because they waste too much lifetime, I nevertheless found the YouTube channel of Joss and Janik to be a great source […]
The Sermon of the Last Judgement defines the Seven Mercies. Some denominations or areas know them with little differences. The Methodist Church defines itself not by altered tenets, but by insisting on living them in practice. So the Methodist Church knows the seven mercies as the works of mercy, but also reduced them to five: […]
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