Finnish memorial stamp for Matti Nykänen, Olympic gold medalist in Calgary in 1988 Ski jumping takes a special character. Not just anybody would, even with proper training, dare to start sliding down the ski hill, and then jump at the speed of around 100km/h (62 mph). So, here follows a list of male ski jumpers. With their best individual placement in the Olympics and/or the World Championships, abbreviated as OG (Olympic Gold), OS (Olympic Silver), OB (Olympic Bronze), WG (World Champion), WS (Silver medalist) and WB (Bronze medalist). Continue reading

You might have heard the expression “a few good men”. Perhaps seen the film with that title. The idea being that it may take only a few good men - and/or women - to turn a bad thing or circumstance into something better, against all odds. It takes dedication, perseverance and belief in what one is doing. The opposite is also true. It may take only a few bad men (and women, but more seldom) to turn a good thing or circumstance into something worse, perhaps much worse. Continue reading

When do we reach our intellectual peak? When our thoughts and reasoning seem to travel in the speed of light, and we absorb everything we experience with such lightness - at the age of fifteen perhaps? Or later? Twenty-one? No matter which age, there comes a time when we start noticing the decline. It is inevitable, like all the phases of life. Of course we get less agile physically - if we now ever were that in the first place - and lose a lot of our physical strength and capacities. Continue reading

This is for you hockey lovers! The list of the 100 Greatest NHL Players (NHL 100) according to NHL. A centerpiece in honoring 100 years of NHL hockey, selected by distinguished members of the hockey community. There are so many great hockey players that it can’t have been an easy task to select the greatest. Nevertheless, this is the official list of the National Hockey League. Shown here a là Journeys of Life - chronologically, showing also the possible other professions or activities of the player, and followed by a monthwise list. Continue reading

Ksenia Sukhinova, Miss World 2008 Miss World pageant is the oldest of the Big Four international beauty pageants, created by Eric Morley in 1951. The corner stone of the pageant has always been, and still is, beauty. Naturally. But it has come a long way from the winner touring with Bob Hope and having a girly role in the next James Bond film. These days it is for many of the participants a stepping stone to a diversity of careers. Continue reading

It is Thanksgiving Day today - in the United States. In Canada they already celebrated it, the second Monday in October. And yet in some other countries some other day. But no matter when that special day is, it is always time to appreciate and reflect upon our lives. Every day could be a thanksgiving day. A day to think what we are thankful for. Grateful for. And blessed with. Continue reading

One nice thing about watching old movies (or movies depicting old times) is that we get to see all those fancy car models from the past - don’t you think? Here is another way of looking at that. Let’s see what kind of cars people thru ages might have driven. Whether they drove the car themselves or just saw it passing by on the street - here’s what they might have seen. Continue reading

This site is mainly about life. About celebrating and commemorating the lives and all the various journeys of life that we people have, and have had throughout time. An intricate part of that journey, of anyone’s life, is death, and the way each and one of us perceives it. This is about celebrating that fact. Not in any macabre manner, but out of respect for the life we were given. Continue reading

Did you ever wonder as a child how Scrooge McDuck could dive in his money vault full of coins, and not get hurt? And why would he do that? Simply for fun and to relish the fact that he was rich? Even a child could understand though that all those coins didn’t appear there by chance, but through some sort of effort. Perhaps work. Or by being very thrifty. A characteristic that many a parent tries to instill in their offspring. Continue reading

There is always more than meets the eye. Don’t we know that! What goes on up front is seldom the same as what goes on beneath the surface at any given moment. No matter how good you are at analyzing the surface level, you still may remain totally in dark about the things happening underneath when there is no way of checking out what is or isn’t. Appearances deceive. Let’s go through some of the ways they do. Continue reading

Like bubbles in the air, we are. Floating in the independent spheres of our own. Sometimes touching the surface of another, attaching to it. Sometimes floating alone till the eventual burst. But never being absorbed by another bubble, no matter how close we get. Independently our own, in each bubble there is everything we need, and each a reflection of its environment. And no matter how big or small we are, we are each perfect in our own way. Continue reading

So have you tried the 4711 yet? The original Eau de Cologne 4711, named after its location at Glockengasse No. 4711 in Köln (Cologne), Germany. It was launched there in 1709 by the 23-year-old Giovanni Maria Farina, an Italian perfume maker who named his fragrance Eau de Cologne, in honor of his new hometown. In contemporary American English usage, the term “cologne” has become a generic term for perfumes - especially those marketed toward men. Continue reading

When you hear the word Maori, what comes to your mind? Perhaps the Maori Haka dance? The video below is of the Maori All Blacks Haka before the rugby match between New Zealand and Canada in Vancouver, Canada, 2017. That’s something to behold! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnvI6V-TtLs The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. They arrived from eastern Polynesia in several waves of waka (canoe) voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Continue reading

or Who Killed Sara? is a Mexican television series created by José Ignacio Valenzuela, and released for Netflix in March 2021. The series tells about a man convicted for the murder of his sister, a crime that he did not commit. Not a kid-friendly series, that’s for sure. But certainly one worthy of watching. The cast is mainly Mexican, but also from Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Spain and Venezuela. Here below you see the main cast with their role names, and where the actors and actresses originate from. Continue reading

Journeys of Life started long ago in the blogspot.com environment as an idea to offer database for you readers interested in finding people who were born the exact same date as yourselves. Since then this site has gone through a lot of changes - development if you will. There still is the opportunity to find your astrological twin (not exact of course though since time and place of birth vary), but now there are also all the article series that we hope you are pretty familiar with by now: Did You Know That, First Names First, Language Day, Monthly Latin, One Day in the Life of, Streets & Squares, When, and Who Said That! Continue reading

Have you ever thought about the fact that many Scots are descendants of the Vikings?! Or how different the language Gaelic language is from English. A Scotsman might tell you: Fàilte gu Alba! But would you understand? That it means Welcome to Scotland! ? Anyways, this article is about the Scots people, not the country or the language(s) this time around. Here follows a list of famous Scots, all the way from the 13th century to our times. Continue reading

From up left to right: Janet Hubert, Will Smith, Joseph Marcell, Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, James Avery and Tatyana Ali Time for another nostalgic view of another great television show. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The title of the series is intricately tied with the career of Will Smith. He had achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince in the late 1980’s. And since there already was a comedy series Prince of Bel Air (first aired on ABC in 1986), NBC coined the title for Will Smith’s television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Continue reading

Anyone born outside of the United States or Canada tends to underestimate the number of place names in Northern America that have a connection with Native Americans. Or the First Nations as they are called in Canada. They are many! For there have been so many native tribes. Many of them ring a bell with most of us, some are less known, many are either extinct today or are so little known that we just don’t recognize them. Continue reading

One of the most memorable movies of the last century. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by Miloš Forman. Many of us have seen it at least once, some quite a few times. Some of us read the book by Ken Kesey before seeing the movie, and noticed how the main character switched from the Chief to the white guy. But nevertheless the film was every bit as good, if not better. Continue reading

Music heals. In the deepest abysses of sorrow, music heals, soothes, takes us somewhere with no time and space. Listening to a piece by Garth Brooks, Time by Hans Zimmer, Schindler’s List by John Williams etc etc, through the earphones at top volume and sobbing in rhythm with it all can be an utterly cleansing, cathartic experience. Here’s one more. On The Nature of Daylight by the British composer Max Richter. Continue reading