Whether the phrase 'burning on the nails' originates from the monastic world or from the torture chamber will probably never be clarified. Legends ...

After threshing with the flail, you waited for a good wind to separate the wheat from the chaff. The lighter husks were carried further away by the...

People shiver when they are afraid or cold. This is the muscles' attempt to warm up. In the former case, to be fit for an attack - or for an escape...

"... Until the big egg is laid [1]". Wilhelm Busch was certainly aware of the disrespectful and ambiguous nature of his formulation and will probab...

You can burn your fingers on freshly roasted chestnuts in winter temperatures. It's no different in electronic manufacturing.

Christoph Lehmann's astute remark refers to paradise and the fact that God put a tree there even though he knew that his creation would break the c...

Anyone who plays with marked cards is either performing a card trick - or cheating. A card magician amazes the audience. But hardly anyone believes...

During and after the World War and in the former GDR, people thought and acted similarly to the elderly lady in the Bois Francs, who...

While virologists, epidemiologists and, above all, politicians, who have had no training in this area, are poking around in the fog trying to conta...