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THESE FASCINATING STORIES AND MORE CAN BE FOUND IN ‘ARTICLES’ SECTION:
1) WHAT THEY SOUGHT ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS.
Europeans have valued oriental spices since ancient times. Without pepper, meat would be flavorless and without cloves, wine would turn sour. It was Arab traders who introduced these spices to Europe, but they kept the location of their sources a closely guarded secret. Anyone who spoke up had their tongue cut out. For a long time, merchants used the route through Byzantium to transport aromatic goods from Asia to Europe. However, in 1453, the Ottomans captured Constantinople and imposed heavy taxes on all transit cargo. The price of oriental spices then skyrocketed in Europe, with some becoming worth more than gold!
Recognizing that controlling the spice trade would grant them global dominance, the monarchs of Portugal and Spain, two maritime powers, began competing for control of the trade…
2) THE HISTORY OF THE CUBAN CIGAR AND COUNTERFEITS.
When Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, he believed that he had finally found the route to India he had been searching for. He called the indigenous people ‘Indians’. The natives called themselves Arawak. They welcomed the visitors with hospitality and gifts of fruit, meat, drink, and some dried leaves from a fragrant plant. Columbus accepted the gifts but threw the leaves overboard deeming them useless. If only he had known what he was throwing away!
3) ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WINE.
“Wine should be forbidden for young men under eighteen. Those aged twenty to forty should drink in moderation, while those over forty may drink as much as they wish to ease the hardships of old age and rediscover their youthful spontaneity…’ (Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher).
– Glühwein, or mulled wine, has been known in Europe since the 13th century as the best remedy for colds and a cure for many ailments. The origins of this magical hot drink can be traced back to wine merchants in ancient Rome.
– Salted wine? How could it be? The ancient Greeks made wine from grapes and drank it diluted with water. They took water from mountain springs. But one day, the wine accidentally came into contact with salty seawater. The philosopher Pliny the Elder recounts how this happened and the result.
– The wine that was invented for the French king, and what the English sailors made of it.
Also how Caribbean rum was created and how much pirates enjoyed it.

WHERE DID THE NAZIS HIDE THE GOLD?
Much of it remains undiscovered, waiting to be unearthed by daring adventurers. In my book, ‘The Hidden Traces of the Grey Wolf’, I used the memoirs of senior Third Reich officials, declassified documents from secret service archives, and other rare sources. Stories from the book are published in the ‘History & Politics’ section.

THE EDITING IN WRITING IS ENDLESS
Sometimes, readers ask me to include more photos and images in my publications. Friends, I achieve this through a process of repeated editing and illustration. For writers, this process is called creativity, and it’s endless! For example, Ernest Hemingway edited his work between 50 and 150 times. This took years, which is why most of his work was published posthumously. If you revisit my publications after some time, you will notice lots of new edits, both textual and illustrative. I follow the technique of striking a balance between text and illustrations. Too much text and the reader gets bored. However, if there are too many illustrations, the reader does not notice the text, focusing instead on the pictures.

THE JOKES OF MADAME GEOGRAPHY.
One day, while out exploring, I found myself on the Caribbean coast of a small country fringed with coconut palms. This tropical paradise teemed with mangoes, bananas, pineapples, oranges and other exotic fruits. I loved it so much that I decided to settle there. I have been living there ever since. Parrots screeching amongst the greenery of the palm trees, pelicans put on a show diving from great heights into the sea to catch fish, and frigate birds soared above it all in the sea breeze. This earthly paradise is full of magical exoticism and inspired the American writer Ernest Hemingway to pen one of his finest stories: The Old Man and the Sea. Ian Fleming, the Englishman who wrote the James Bond novels, also wrote them here.

I have also written six books here, including the humorously titled ‘Da Breezee Belizee’. In it, I explore the region’s history and the exploits of Caribbean pirates and adventurers.
I also recount my experiences of getting to know the locals and learning how to make dry wine from tropical fruits. Stories from the book can be found in almost every category on the website.
We all love geography and travel. But what many people don’t realize is that geography is full of jokes and pranks. For example, it once misled Christopher Columbus, who mistook the Bahamas for India and called the locals ‘Indians’. The mistake was discovered, but the name stuck! I call these kinds of stories ‘salty’, and you can find them in my book. For example, ‘Madame Geography’s Joke’ and ‘Who Gave a Country Its Name’. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them!

WHAT WAS THE GESTAPO CHIEF’S LAST MISSION?
In April 1945, just days before the collapse of the Third Reich, Hitler disappeared. He was no coward and could easily have shot himself to avoid capture by the enemy. Every intelligence agency in the world searched for him, but to no avail. Decades passed and many secret documents were declassified. Having analyzed these files, former UN war crimes investigator John Cencich claims that Hitler survived and escaped from Berlin. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, was also convinced of this. Stalin searched for Hitler until the end of his life. It seems that Hitler’s disappearance forever remained a mystery to everyone. But if Hitler did escape besieged Berlin in late April 1945, who helped him? After the war, the Secret Service recruited Gestapo chief General Müller, who became a special adviser to the US President and helped the FBI to purge the American government of Stalinist spies during the Cold War. Following Müller’s death in the early 1980s, his diaries came into the possession of a prominent journalist, and a Californian publishing house began releasing the series. However, the CIA stopped the publication of further volumes because the diaries contained scandalous information about many politicians.
Fortunately, I was able to get the volumes that had already been published. You can read the Gestapo chief’s account of Hitler’s escape in the HISTORY AND POLITICS category.

HUNTING FOR TREASURES.
My publication, Pirate Atolls, has been read by thousands of visitors to the website, and I have received lots of feedback. Many people have asked me to continue with this topic. It is continued in publications such as ‘Revenge of the Yellow Idol’, ‘Fangs of Chinchorro’ and ‘Treasures of the Golden Convoy’ which feature pirate lairs and sunken treasure hunters. Other stories recount the adventures of Sir Francis Drake and tales of Caribbean and Indian Oceans pirates. Enjoy reading!

STAY HEALTHY!
In today’s world, knowledge is practically free if you are curious and know where to find information. Ignorance, on the other hand, can cost you everything. After the age of 50, our bodies become less resilient, so if we want to live longer and stay strong, we need to support our systems. Proper nutrition is all it takes — no painful diets or excessive exercise required! This publication in the ‘ARTICLES’ section contains useful, practical advice.

HOW STALIN SEARCHED FOR HITLER
For those interested in lesser-known facts about the Second World War (1939–1945), the chapters in my book Hidden Traces of the Grey Wolf reveal some of the war’s most intriguing secrets. One such mystery concerns Hitler’s disappearance from besieged Berlin. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the then head of the FBI, there was nothing in the documents collected by his agency to suggest that Hitler was dead. Stalin spent the rest of his life searching for Hitler, convinced that he was alive and in hiding. Speculation about this had been circulating around the world for years. I found information in rare primary sources and the memoirs of officers from Hitler’s inner circle. You can read the results of my research in several publications.

THE HISTORY FOR DUMMIES
Every child is born curious. However, many lose this curiosity as they grow up, becoming immersed in the mundane realities of life and susceptible to propaganda. People live by myths and allow dogma to dominate their minds.
In my search for truth, I studied religious teachings, but I soon became convinced that they were even more mythical than political theories, and that they contained more hate than love.
Then I turned to the writings of philosophers. Some of these were the product of warped thinking: their authors incited the masses to commit murder and were punished for it. One cannot find happiness by making others unhappy. As the Russian literary classic Leo Tolstoy said, ‘The world is ruled by madmen. Normal people cannot…”

I studied the works of sociologists. They observe people’s habits and explain their behavior. Here are the conclusions of the French sociologist Gustave Le Bon: ‘He who knows how to mislead a crowd easily becomes its master, and he who tries to re-educate it always becomes its victim.’ Sociology describes people’s weaknesses and politicians’ crimes with piercing clarity. I trust sociologists more than philosophers.

Ultimately, I became interested in the experiences of people who had lived through the war, witnessed death, and endured hardship. I read books and diaries written by soldiers who had fought on both sides of the front line. In their stories, I found what I was looking for. The truth always lies in the neutral zone between the trenches. Politicians steal the glory of soldiers and leave them with the shame of defeat.

Through studying events and facts, comparing expert judgements, and identifying cause-and-effect relationships, I became convinced that politicians and academics consistently present an inaccurate version of history to the public. I therefore decided to write my own book. My aim is to demonstrate in it how propaganda replaces rational thought with nonsense. Some interesting information from the book is here, on this website.

THE PRESIDENT JOHN.F. KENNEDY NEW HIS ASSASINS!
On 22 November 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in broad daylight. The nation was shocked by his assassination Loved around the world, John symbolized America’s commitment to freedom and was a beacon for all mankind. However, he had crossed a dangerous line by naively believing that the President and Congress — comprised of the people’s elected representatives — held all the power and authority.
Back in the White House for a second term in January 2025, President Donald Trump promised to declassify documents relating to the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This has been done. However, the documents revealed nothing new, and the topic continues to be discussed by media outlets.
In that year, President John F. Kennedy issued some significant executive orders, knowing he was playing with fire. But he didn’t back down. Shortly before his assassination, he revealed his killers to members of the US Congress. You can read about it in the publication ‘Castrated Republic’.

STALIN’S SPY ORCHESTRA
Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, a spy network operating across Europe collected information and transmitted it to Moscow. Radio operators within the network sent messages from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France. This is regarded as one of the most successful examples in history of establishing an extensive spy network in enemy territory. It was an orchestra of informants. The German word for ‘orchestra’ is ‘Kapella’. This story was uncovered in the diaries of Gestapo chief and SS general Heinrich Müller.
You can read it in the History & Politics section.

THE SECRETS OF WWII THAT HISTORIANS KEEP HIDDEN.
For decades after that war, the Kremlin continued to accuse Germany of launching a treacherous attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. But this is a lie. Here is the backstory.

1)On 13 April 1919, the German Marxists proclaimed a Soviet republic in Bavaria, taking advantage of Germany’s defeat in the war. Terror began, as it had in Russia in 1917. The bandits were financed by Moscow. The German patriots, under the war minister Gustav Noske and Franz von Epp, stopped the bloodshed. They shot the Marxist rebels, including Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Those who escaped fled to Lenin and Trotsky in Moscow. There, they established a communist international headquarters (Comintern), plotted a global conspiracy and threatened Europe with a new war.

2) Following Lenin’s death, Stalin began preparing his army for an advance on the West. He tricked American specialists, inviting them into building factories, and with their help, militarized Russia’s entire industry in a short time, 10 years.

3) Europe retaliated, and the threat of a new war paved the way for the rise of fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany. In 1924, the war veteran and party leader Adolf Hitler published his political manifesto in his book ‘Mein Kampf’. In it, he declared war on Bolshevism, which was threatening Europe.

4) In 1933, the German people elected Hitler to the Reichstag, for his pledge to regain the lands lost by Germany under the infamous Treaty of Versailles. However, just two months later, in March of that year, the Rothschild financial empire, acting on behalf of the global Jewish community, initiated an economic boycott of Germany. They did not want another European empire that refused to borrow money from them.
By 1938, Hitler had regained back to Germany almost all of the seized land and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for that. He was named ‘Man of the Year’ by the Times magazine of New York.

5) However, a dispute over East Prussia, which had been awarded to Poland, escalated into military conflict. The Rothschild empire exploited this, forcing the French and British governments to declare war on Germany.

6) In August 1940, the Germans were preparing for ‘Operation Sea Lion’, which involved an invasion of Britain by land, sea and air. Around this time, Hitler received reports from military intelligence and diplomats that in Moscow, Stalin was deploying his troops to the border regions in Poland. Of the 151 infantry divisions, 96 were already stationed on the German border. There were also 23 cavalry divisions and 28 mechanized brigades concealed in the forests. More troops kept arriving to join them.

For the Reich’s military top brass, the accumulation of Soviet offensive artillery units on the border that were not required for defense purposes was the decisive factor in determining whether Stalin was preparing to attack Germany. The Germans did not have any such troops. Hitler realized that his ‘friend’ in the Kremlin was planning to exploit the situation by invading Europe while the majority of German troops would be stationed on the other side of the English Channel. He cancelled ‘Operation Sea Lion’, redeployed the Wehrmacht troops to Poland, and ordered the General Staff to develop ‘Operation Barbarossa’ (from the memoirs of the highest ranks of the Third Reich).

These are the events that led humanity to the WWII. They are all described in the chapters of my book History for Dummies, published here.

THE SECRETS TO EXTEND YOUR LIFE!
Europeans have valued oriental spices since ancient times. Without pepper, meat would be flavourless and without cloves, wine would turn sour. It was Arab traders who introduced these spices to Europe, but they kept the location of their sources a closely guarded secret. Anyone who spoke up had their tongue cut out. These magical spices were said to grow on islands in the waters surrounding the shores of the mysterious lands of India and China. Chinese herbalists and alchemists made extracts and ointments from spicy plants and fruits. These ointments and tinctures were used to treat royalty!

For a long time, merchants used the route through Byzantium to deliver aromatic cargoes from Asia to Europe. However, in 1453, the Ottomans captured Constantinople and imposed heavy taxes on all transit cargo. The price of oriental spices then skyrocketed in Europe, with some becoming worth more than gold!

The monarchs of Portugal and Spain, two maritime powers, realised that controlling the spice trade would grant them global dominance. They began equipping expeditions and sending adventurers to search for the precious islands. In the process, daredevils such as Cristopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Fernan Magellan discovered uncharted islands and continents.

PLANET OCEAN is an adventure story about a brave admiral and navigator. It recounts the tale of Magellan’s round-the-world expedition in search of the fabled islands — an adventure that would be remembered by his descendants for centuries to come.