MS Hans Hedtoft: Denmark’s Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2023
Nearly five decades after the sinking of the Titanic , another tragedy struck in the oceans. A Danish liner was on her maiden voyage off the...
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Uraniborg: An Observatory Without a Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2023
Before the invention of the telescope, astronomers relied on a variety of tools and techniques to observe and study the celestial objects an...
Dyrehavsbakken: The World’s Oldest Amusement Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2022
Just 10 km north of central Copenhagen, in the woods of Dyrehaven, sits Dyrehavsbakken, or simply Bakken, an amusement park that attracts cl...
Copenhagen’s Potato Row
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2021
In the heart of Copenhagen, not far from the harbor, are a series of closely laid streets with houses smashed together like rows of potato p...
The Audacity of Peter Tordenskjold: The Naval Captain Who Asked His Enemy For Ammo in The Middle of a Battle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2020
On November 12, 1720 Peter Tordenskjold died in a sword duel. It will not sound familiar to most people, but he was one of the great nationa...
The Seaweed Houses of Læsø Island
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2018
On the island of Læsø, located off the coast of Denmark, there are houses with roofs made of seaweed. These roofs are up to a meter thick, a...
Copenhagen’s Urban Birdhouses
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2017
Thomas Dambo—you may remember him from a couple of months ago, where he constructed giant troll-like wooden sculptures and hid them around ...
Thomas Dambo’s Forgotten Giants
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2017
Danish artist Thomas Dambo has been building stuff using trash and recycled materials since an early age, starting with smaller sculptures ...
The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...
The Infinite Bridge in Aarhus, Denmark
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
The “Infinite Bridge” is located in Denmark’s second-largest city Aarhus. Designed by Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter for the 2015 “Sculpt...
