With this key sentence, Alexandre Dumas père elegantly eliminated the competition between his musketeers - who rarely appear with muskets, but oft...

If children don't just sit in front of the computer and press keys and buttons, they might learn that clever cheating is part of the fun when playi...

This is how Wilhelm Busch saw it in a famous caricature, although an 'eaves' is not depicted here. But the basic idea is effectively conveyed becau...

Originally, the Holzweg was a forest path used to transport wood (in technical jargon: Rückeweg), which was usually in poor condition and really d...

Politically, resistance is described as a refusal to obey the authorities. Although it is carefully enshrined in the Basic Law, many politicians do...

Goethe's words are effectively illustrated by lightning, which produces a lot of light but can also cause enormous damage when it strikes. So the d...

In Vietnam, the soup 'Pho' is eaten with chopsticks. One naturally wonders whether the Chinese-Vietnamese noodles can be 'broken in', as a good Ger...

This Roman comment on the rising of the sun ('The light comes from the east') was appropriated by the early Christians and applied to their savior....

The 'French' skunk Pepe Le Pew, known since the 1940s as the cartoon character of the 'Looney toons' (Warner Brothers), will not appear in the sequ...