HAHAHAHA!

Im schwäbischen Dialekt wird die Stubenfliege mit etwa sieben Millimeter Körperlänge als „Mugg“ bezeichnet. Die Bezeichnung Muggeseggele geht ursprünglich auf das lateinische saccellus, sprich den Hodensack zurück.

Great question! I have to delve into it:)

incredible!

Ich ebenfalls:-) Hat was.

Correct - or rather, already corrected:-)

Namibian? That’s fascinating! I’ve just done some genealogy research there - what a mad piece of German history this is.

Very much so. And Ali Aziz's original grave site is still marked with the stone and a plaque in Urbanstraße (on the Carl-von-Ossietzky School grounds).

Muss absolut den Film sehen! Das Busch ist brilliant.

1806 portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (source: bildindex.de/document/obj...)

Front page of the 1797 edition of Humboldt's book on self-experimenting (read it all here: play.google.com/books/reader...)

Or you can listen to @greg_jenner 's brilliant weekly podcast, where he and his guests explain the phenomenon of vital electricity & Humboldt's humble yet acutely painful attempts at testing its limits;-)

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

The part of his report where "helle Blitze" (bright lightnings) occur before his eyes was probably the least painful outcome of the experiment... I'D rather have some coffee instead😂

You can read all about it in Humboldt's 1797
"Versuche über die gereizte Muskel- & Nervenfaser"

Or the Vienna and Prague Corpse-Trams.

Leider nicht (und ich frage mich selbst warum) aber es ist eine Wunderbare „Challenge“ sie zu finden ✊

That's only one of the reasons - Berlin actively protected its green areas from an early stage on. First because they were royal hunting grounds (mostly) and then because a group of people decided it would be the best thing to make sure the forests stayed. Waldvertrag (Forest Treaty) was ingenious.