The Lost Battalion of Celtic Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2026
On 9 October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, a battalion of Australian soldiers entered a place known as Celtic Wood, near Passchend...
Mynydd Epynt: A Welsh Village That Was Sacrificed for The War Effort
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2026
The windswept plateau in central Wales, near the village of Sennybridge in Powys, was once home to a thriving Welsh-speaking farming society...
Brocken Spectre: An Eerie Optical Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2026
In northern Germany, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, between the rivers Weser and Elbe, stands a mountain that is home to mysterious legends ...
Éolienne Bollée: An Unusual Windmill
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2026
The design and working principle of a windmill or a wind powered machine haven’t changed much since they first appeared in Persia some 1,20...
The Double Life of William Brodie
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2026
In the late 18th century, no man in Edinburgh seemed more respectable than William Brodie. By day, he was a successful cabinetmaker, a membe...
The Great Barn at Harmondsworth
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2026
In a small village on the outskirts of London stands a barn so vast and magnificent that it has often been likened to a church. Its soaring ...
Gjøa: The Little Ship That Conquered the Arctic
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2026
On October 19, 1906, a modest 70-foot sailing vessel slipped into San Francisco Bay. Compared with the large steamships and ocean-going vess...
Klopotec: The Wooden Machines That Protect Europe's Vineyards
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2026
In the middle of a parking lot in front of a supermarket in Schloßberg, in the district of Leibnitz in the Austrian state of Styria, stands ...
Breadalbane: The Shipwreck at The Top of The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2026
In the frigid waters of the Canadian Arctic, nearly 100 meters beneath the surface, lies a ship seemingly untouched by time. Despite the pas...
Christopher Hutton's Clever Inventions That Helped Allied PoW Escape
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2026
When Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, military planners understood that thousands of Allied servicemen would inevitab...
The Impeccable Counterfeits of Ceslaw Bojarski
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2026
On November 9, 1963, two investigators from France’s Central Office for Counterfeit Currency Control (OCRFM) arrived at the post office on R...
Edinburgh Seven And The Surgeons' Hall Riot
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2026
On 18 November 1870, a crowd gathered outside the Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh. Inside, seven young women sat for an anatomy examination alon...
Schiehallion Experiment: How Astronomers Weighed The Earth
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2026
In the summer of 1774, a team of British astronomers working under the patronage of the Royal Society established camp at the foot of a lone...
Šomoška stone waterfall
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2026
On the borderlands between modern-day Slovakia and Hungary stands one of the strangest waterfalls in Europe. The formation at Šomoška Stone ...
Cold Food Festival
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2026
Every spring, just before the arrival of the better-known Qingming Festival, parts of China once observed a strange and austere tradition wh...
Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2026
In fiction as well as in real life, counterfeiters have always been portrayed as master forgers and artists who reproduced banknotes with as...
SN 1006: The Brightest Supernova Ever Witnessed
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2026
In the spring of 1006, people across Asia and Europe looked up into the night sky and saw something astonishing: a brilliant new star blazin...
The Halifax Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2026
On 6 December 1917, in the harbour of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, Canada, two ships collided. One of them was a munitions ship loaded with expl...
Warships Wrapped in Cotton
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2026
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia ...
Thiess of Kaltenbrun, The Benevolent Werewolf
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2026
In the year 1692, an 86-year-old man who lived in the town of Mālpils in Latvia stood before a judge and calmly proclaimed that he was a wer...
