The Vitrified Forts of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2019
Throughout the Bronze and the Iron Ages, Europeans have constructed hilltop forts and enclosures made of stone. About two hundred examples o...
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The 40-Foot Studebaker President
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2019
Few companies escaped the Stock Market Crash of 1929 that plunged the United States and much of the western world into an abyss of economic...
Project A119: The Secret Plan to Nuke The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2019
Long before the United States President John F. Kennedy delivered the inspiring "We choose to go to the Moon" speech in front of a...
Barge Haulers on The Volga
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2019
Before the era of steam engines, the process of moving a boat or a barge up a river was extremely difficult. The usual method was to tow the...
Tempest Prognosticator: Predicting Storms With Leeches
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2019
Some animals have the instinctive ability to predict changes in the weather. Frogs croak when a storm is approaching, birds return to their ...
Australia’s Mouse Plagues
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2019
Rats and mice are big problems in Australia, especially around the grain-growing regions in the south and in the east. Every few years, mous...
Helepolis: The Failed War Machine From Which Rose a Wonder of The Ancient World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2019
At the entrance to the harbor of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, there once stood a colossal statue made of iron, ...
Jap Herron: A Novel Mark Twain Wrote After His Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2019
Mark twain died in 1910. Seven years later he wrote his last novel, Jap Herron —so claims St. Louis journalist and author Emily Grant Hutch...
The Japanese Fishing Boat Whose Lethal Encounter With An Atomic Bomb Inspired Godzilla
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2019
Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting in...
Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2019
The Neolithic people of Great Britain were prolific builders. Just look at the British Isles—they are studded with countless ancient megalit...
The Rotating Solariums of Jean Saidman
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2019
The importance of sunlight to human health is well understood, and that understanding developed in the late 19th century when it was discov...
The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2019
One of Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries is a shipwreck known as the “Mahogany Ship”. It was first spotted in 1836 by a party...
Wainhouse Tower: The Tallest Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2019
Wainhouse Tower, standing high on a hill in the King Cross area of Halifax, is the tallest structure in Calderdale and a prominent landmark ...
Via Cava: The Cave Roads of Tuscany
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2019
In southern Tuscany, there is a mysterious network of old pathways deeply entranced into massive rocks appearing like narrow canyons flanked...
The Legend of Bingen’s Mouse Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2019
On a small island in the Rhine river, outside Bingen am Rhein, in Germany, stands a 10th century stone tower with a macabre legend associate...
Dresden’s Tobacco Mosque
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2019
Standing on the banks of the Elbe river, in the German city of Dresden, is a monumental building with a multicolored glass dome and high-ri...
Linnaeus's Flower Clock: Keeping Time With Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2019
Who needs a watch to tell time when we got flowers? Many species of flowering plants open and close their flowers at specific times through...
That Time When America Air-Dropped Pianos For Troops in Battlefields
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2019
You thought pianos dropping from the sky is a gag for cartoons? Then hear this story out. During World War Two, all kinds of production inv...
Hellburner: The 16th Century Weapon of Mass Destruction
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2019
In the age of sail, when ships were made of wood, fire was the number one enemy of sailors, and this fearsome tool was used in diabolic ways...
The Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2019
Like many rulers, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I had a fascination for large monuments, but instead of actually building them he roman...
