A Brief History Of The Teutonic Knights During The Middle Ages

The Teutonic Knights (or the Teutonic Order) were one of the most important military-religious chivalric orders of the Late Middle Ages in Central Europe and significant large parts of Eastern and Northeastern Europe respectively. As such, the Teutonic Knights had an important territorial foothold in the area around the Baltic Sea in the contemporary Baltic…


How To Prepare Your Skin For Laser Treatment For Pigmentation

Pigmentation issues like hyperpigmentation, sunspots, and melasma can significantly affect the appearance of your skin. If you’re looking for the best treatment, laser treatment for pigmentation and melasma is certainly one of the options that may come to mind. Laser treatment for pigmentation uses targeted light energy to break down pigment particles. What then follows…


Remembering LEGO Knights’ Kingdom

It’s been quite a while now, after so many years, since I got my first LEGO knight from the LEGO Knights’ Kingdom II sub-theme as a present when I was just a small kid… As I found out once more after circa 20 years since this sub-theme of LEGO was released (being part of the…


The Transylvanian Saxon Fortified Church Of Heldsdorf

The Transylvanian Saxon fortified church of Heldsdorf/H쒃lchiu is one of the most beautiful and picturesque of its kind in Transylvania (or Siebenb쎼rgen as the region is known in German as well as Siweberjen in the Transylvanian Saxon dialect), central Romania. It is situated in the village of H쒃lchiu (known in German as Heldsdorf and in…


The History Of The Transylvanian Saxon Fortified Church Of Tartlau

The Transylvanian Saxon fortified church of Tartlau (known in Romanian as Prejmer) is one of the most well known of its kind. It was initially built by the Teutonic Knights but, after they were subsequently evicted by the Hungarian monarch Andrew II in 1225, it was subsequently taken over by the Catholic order of the…