The Great Bed of Ware
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2020
For much of human history, sleeping arrangements were very informal. You heaped a pile of straw or leaves on the floor, covered it with anim...
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Charles Crocker’s Spite Fence
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2020
Back when San Francisco's luxurious destination Nob Hill was just another neighborhood in the newly incorporated city, a young German im...
The Lost Villages of The Port of Antwerp
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2020
In the middle of the Port of Antwerp, in Belgium, surrounded by an endless sea of shipping containers, stands an old church tower on a small...
Cornfield Bomber: The Fighter Plane That Landed Without Its Pilot
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2020
One of the strangest aviation mishaps that ended happily happened on February 2, 1970. That morning, three F-106 Delta Darts took off from t...
The Soviet Census Debacle of 1937
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2020
In 1937, the Soviet Union conducted its first population census in eleven years. Soviet leaders, especially Stalin, had great expectations...
Where is Ground Zero in Nagasaki?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2020
On the morning of August 9, 1945, six B29 bombers took off from Mariana Islands, located more than 2,100 kilometers north of Tokyo. One of t...
Hessy Levinsons Taft: The Jewish Woman Who Was Hitler’s “Perfect Aryan Baby”
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2020
Hessy Levinsons Taft, a retired chemistry professor at St. John's University, New York, has an amusing story to tell. When she was only ...
The Pomological Watercolor Collection
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2020
Before the days of photography, documenting anything accurately was a task that could only be undertaken by an artist or a model maker. So, ...
The Great Hedge of India
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2020
Back in the 19th century, eastern India was separated from the west by an impenetrable belt of trees made up of mostly thorny plants such as...
Nicholas Senn: The Doctor Who Blew Hydrogen Gas Up His Patient's Asses
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 19, 2020
Say, you get shot in the stomach. You go to a doctor. The doctor pulls down your pants and starts pumping hydrogen gas up your ass. Then he ...
The Mysterious Sky Battle Over Nuremberg in 1561
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2020
Throughout history, many observers have reported seeing strange things in the sky. Some of these sightings were, in all probability, natur...
When Dead Whales Toured The Country
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2020
For almost three decades, from the 1950s though the 1970s, three gargantuan, smelly, whale carcasses toured the length and breadth of Europe...
Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2020
Out of all places to stick your head into, a particle accelerator would rank among the worst. Yet, on that fateful day of 13 July 1978, thir...
Cynthia, The Celebrity Mannequin
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2020
The story of Pygmalion, from ancient Greek mythology, is well known. Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his own creation, which ...
The Znamya Space Mirror
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2020
For a few hours just before dawn on the night of 4 February 1993, a giant spotlight, 5 kilometers in diameter, raced across Europe from we...
That Time When Computer Memory Was Handwoven by Women
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2020
Computer technology from yesteryears look comically primitive and bulky. One popular image frequently shared in social media sites show a ...
The Murders Written in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2020
The Ardwell House East Lodge sits right on the edge of A716 that runs along the east coast of the Rhins of Galloway, in southern Scotland. L...
Brighton And Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2020
Two children looking up at the car of the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway. Photo: Hemmings Motor News For five years...
Scuttling at Scapa Flow: When The German Navy Sank its Own Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2020
The Armistice of 11 November 1918, that ended hostiles between the Allied and the Allies, left little for negotiation. The Germans were give...
The Last German Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2020
The weather station where 11 German soldiers were trapped, forgotten by the fallen Nazis. Weather played an important role during the Se...
