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Wow!
On 15 August 1977 a signal (6EQUJ5) was received by a radio telescope in Ohio which was so unusual that the astronomer who reviewed the data wrote “Wow!” on the printout. If a scientist writes something like that, even with an exclamation mark, then it must be something really amazing……
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The Enlightenment
An important person of the time of the Enlightenment who shouldn’t be forgotten was the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He said the sentence which probably best describes the Enlightenment as a whole: “Dare to use your own mind”. Furthermore he wrote about something which is fundamental for science, and that’s…
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Supporting Julian Assange
I support Julian Assange. He has never done anything wrong and is the victim of selfish American interests. He is actually a hero regarding what he has done for the world. The United States should face a trial, not Julian Assange
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Missing Laws
In a police car after I had been mugged by two guys with a gun. I thought I could walk from the metro station to the place I had booked on Airbnb as I would do in any other country in the world, but no. If there is one country…
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The Most Dangerous Country
Walking towards my Airbnb place in the suburbs of Washington DC. This photo was taken a minute before I was mugged by two guys with a gun. I thought I could walk from the station to the place I had booked as I would do in any other country in…
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What Is Worth More
“’Is money so important for your people?’ [Winnetou] asked after the pause. ‘Yes, everything turns around money,’ I admitted. ‘Is it… why you joined the land-grabbers [railway construction]?’ he asked with long pauses as if every word had caused him pain. ‘In our world everybody says that happiness is about…
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Arrival in North America
France sent out an explorer named Giovanni da Verrazano as early as 1524 to locate a northwest passage around North America to find a way to India. Jaques Cartier followed in 1534 and explored the St Lawrence River. In 1562 the St Johns River area in Florida was explored by…
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Prince Philip
The funeral of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, had taken place today, he had passed away on 9 April 2021 aged 99. It was designed by himself and it was a relatively small partially due to his wishes and partially due to coronavirus restrictions. He was born as Prince…
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Beyond The Visible Horizon
Our horizon should go beyond that visible horizon, only then we can see the whole picture, that is especially these days very necessary. To regard a whole country as bad without knowing the reasons for its actions is wrong. There could be a history of unfair treatment by other countries…
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Just A Noble Person
Karl May was really a good person, but sometimes not treated well. There is the story that when he travelled to Gartow in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1898 to research for another story about Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau he gave a small girl and her poor father 100…
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Silver Arrows
McLaren Mercedes MP4/13, by which the team won the constructors championship and Mika Häkkinen his first drivers championship, McLaren Mercedes MP4-23, by which Lewis Hamilton won his first world champion title, and Mercedes-AMG F1 W05 Hybrid, by which Mercedes-AMG Petronas won their first of a record eight constructors championships and…
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Nico Rosberg Is F1 World Champion
Nico Rosberg is Formula One World Champion 2016, congratulations! He deserves it. He is always fair, and he drives in a very balanced way, like a clockwork. Now he won the title just like his father Keke Rosberg did in 1982, so the Rosbergs are the second family to achieve…
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