River Farset: Belfast’s Forgotten River
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2018
The city of Belfast in Northern Ireland looked very different when it was a thriving industrial city in the 18th century. A large river flow...
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Providence Canyon: The Man-made Natural Wonder
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2018
Approximately 150 miles southwest of Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia, is a network of gorges and massive gullies lovingly called Georgia...
How The British Fought Fog With Runways of Fire
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2018
During the Second World War, British pilots were fighting more than the German Messerschmitts. They were also fighting against the weather—m...
Afghanistan’s Last Buddhist Relics
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2018
It’s hard to believe that Afghanistan, a country torn by war and religious extremism, was once a peaceful Buddhist nation. Pilgrims from all...
Lake George: The Lake That Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2018
About 40 kilometers north-east of Canberra, in Australia, right next to the Federal Highway is a large lake, but you might not always see it...
The Canadian Town Called Asbestos
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2018
The asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Photo credit: Denis-Carl Robidoux/Flickr At the heart of the triangle made by the three Can...
The Jefferson Grid
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2018
The vast majority of America’s western land is divided into a lattice-work of farms, towns and forests. This grid pattern was first propos...
The Meteorite That Crashed Into A Car
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2018
The Peekskill meteorite car sitting at a collector’s garage in Peekskill. Photo credit: Ryan Thompson/Flickr On October 9, 1992, a brill...
The Boneyard of Colon Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2018
The Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba, named after Christopher Columbus, is well known for its many elaborately sculpted memorials and mausoleu...
Killed Negatives of The Great Depression
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
During America’s Great Depression, the Information Division of the U.S. Farm Security Administration sent out an army of photographers to d...
The Japanese Balloon Bombs of World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2018
On May 5, 1945, Reverend Archie Mitchell took his five-month pregnant wife and a group of five children from the church, where he was the pa...
Transnistria, The Country That Doesn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2018
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, a thin sliver of land on Moldova’s eastern border with Ukraine broke apart from its parent c...
Yakutsk: The Coldest City in the World
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2018
Photo credit: Slava Stepanov There are plenty of regions in Russia that can claim to be very remote and very cold, but none as extreme as...
The Blood Stained Ceilings of Kyoto’s Temples
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2018
The Fushimi Castle in Kyoto was one of the last places of action during the “age of warring states”—a period in Japanese history, stretching...
Canaries As Poisonous Gas Detectors
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2018
This peculiar device, in the collection of the Science Museum in South Kensington, London, looks like a tiny gas chamber a movie villain w...
Saint Catherine's Monastery And The World’s Oldest Library
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2018
Deep in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, in a region of wilderness made up of granite rock and rugged mountains, lies the town of Saint Catheri...
