The Poyais Scam: A Nation That Never Was
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2025
A panoramic view of Black River in the fictional territory of Poyais. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons In the early 19th century, a Sc...
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The Kauri Gum Diggers of New Zealand
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2025
Two Māori gum-diggers pose with a substantial pile of kauri gum, representing a week’s labour. Photo credit: Museum at Te Ahu In the m...
The 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 22, 2025
Crowds throng the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey. circa 1908. Photo credit: Detroit Publishing Company The town of Beach Haven, o...
Harold Gillies: The Father of Plastic Surgery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2025
This is Walter Yeo, an English sailor who was injured while manning the guns aboard the battleship HMS Warspite during the Battle of Jutla...
Valencia’s Water Tribunal is The World’s Oldest Court
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2025
It’s Thursday, and a sizeable crowd has gathered at the corner of Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia, Spain, near the Apostles Gate of the city’...
Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2025
Sometime in the summer of 1791, or perhaps even earlier, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fell ill. His biographer, Franz Niemetschek, described him ...
Hating Henry Symeonis: An Oxford University Tradition
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2025
The University of Oxford—one of the oldest continuously operating universities in the world—has a wealth of traditions, which is unsurprisin...
Danish Protest Pig
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2025
This pig with a reddish-brown coat and a prominent white stripe might not look very remarkable, but during the late 19th century, it becam...
Smile of Silla: The Ancient Artifact That Inspired LG’s Logo
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2025
Like all business and corporations, LG—the South Korean multinational conglomerate, best known for their electronic products and household a...
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot: Ecological Villain And Astronomy Artist
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2025
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot left behind two legacies. One deserves admiration and respect, while the other earns him contempt and criticism. ...
