The Execution of Alchemist Georg Honauer
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2026
It appears that quite a few people have been killed or brought to justice for having failed to deliver on their promise of turning ordinary ...
Showing posts with the label History
Marcus Terentius Varro and The Invisible Creatures That Cause Disease
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2026
In the first century BC, nearly two thousand years before the invention of the microscope, the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro made a r...
The Giants of Patagonia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2026
For centuries, travellers to the southern tip of South America returned with astonishing stories. They spoke of a land swept by fierce winds...
The Sultana Disaster: The Deadliest Maritime Tragedy America Forgot
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2026
In the early hours of April 27, 1865, a steamboat packed with nearly two thousand exhausted Union soldiers drifted northward on the Mississi...
Day Joyce Sheet: A Wartime Diary Stitched on a Bedsheet
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2026
Most wartime diaries are written on paper. Some are scribbled in notebooks or loose sheets and hidden beneath floorboards, or tucked inside ...
What Was The Whitechapel Mount?
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2026
Nearly two centuries ago, a strange hill rose above the flat landscape of London's East End. It stood high enough to appear on maps, ser...
The US Navy's Failed Formosa Expedition
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2026
Nearly a century before the Vietnam War, the United States undertook one of its first military interventions in East Asia. It was not a full...
Kubizuka: The Tomb of Decapitated Heads
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 3, 2026
During the medieval period and early modern Japan, decapitation was a common method of execution for criminals and defeated enemy warriors. ...
Buchette del vino: The Wine Windows of Florence
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2026
Scattered across Florence, in the narrow streets, is a curious architectural feature that many visitors walk past without noticing. Set into...
The Ancient Salt Wells of Zigong
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2026
Long before the first commercial oil wells appeared in North America, Chinese engineers had already mastered the art of drilling deep into t...
Aboriginal Message Sticks
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2026
Not all forms of communication are based on speech or writing. Just as the Inca encoded information in strings and knots known as quipus , a...
The Legend of a Lost Roman Legion in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2026
A remote village in north-western China, on the edge of the Gobi desert, is said to have been founded by Roman soldiers. According to this c...
The Beale Ciphers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2026
Somewhere in the hills of Virginia, the United States, according to an enduring legend, there remains buried a vast fortune in gold, silver,...
The Euphrates Tunnel: History's First Underwater Tunnel or Ancient Legend?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2026
More than two thousand years before modern engineers bored tunnels beneath rivers and seas, ancient writers told of an astonishing passage h...
Lampo: The Dog Who Rode The Rails
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2026
In the summer of 1953, a stray dog stepped off a freight train at the railway station of Campiglia Marittima, a small town in Tuscany, Italy...
Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont: The Forgotten Genius of Spain’s Golden Age
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2026
Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont was a Spanish polymath who was far ahead of his time. Centuries before the Industrial Revolution, this Spanish ...
Edgar Wallace's Marketing Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2026
In 1905, a little-known journalist named Edgar Wallace was determined to make his first novel impossible to ignore. The book was The Four Ju...
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...
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...
