Ambrose Channel Pilot Cable
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2025
The Ambrose Channel pilot cable was an early 20th-century navigational aid installed on the seabed of New York Harbor’s Ambrose Channel, the...
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Alain Bombard: The Biologist Who Shipwrecked Himself to Prove a Point
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2025
In the autumn of 1952, a small black rubber dinghy drifted out of the Canaries and into the immensity of the Atlantic Ocean. Its lone occupa...
Wilhelm Voigt: The Amiable Scoundrel
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2025
On a crisp October morning in 1906, a man in an immaculate Prussian captain’s uniform marched into the Berlin suburb of Köpenick and coolly ...
Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian’s Radium House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2025
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as radium fever gripped scientists and entrepreneurs alike, one Philadelphia businessman join...
Jean-Baptiste Denys and the First Blood Transfusion
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2025
In 1667, in a small Parisian chamber lit by oil lamps and crowded with curious observers, a young physician named Jean-Baptiste Denys carrie...
Tektite Habitat: The Pioneering Undersea Laboratory
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2025
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States conducted one of the most ambitious experiments in human undersea habitation: Project ...
The 1938 Yellow River Flood
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2025
Few rivers in human history have been so closely tied to a nation’s destiny as the Yellow River— Huang He , the “Mother of China.” Rising in...
The Golden Letter of King Alaungpaya
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 12, 2025
In 1756, King Alaungpaya of Burma sent an extraordinary diplomatic letter to King George II of Great Britain and Hanover. The missive was en...
The Ball of The Burning Men
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2025
On a freezing January night in 1393, music and laughter filled the Hôtel Saint-Pol, a sprawling palace on the right bank of Paris. The Frenc...
Yossele The Holy Miser
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2025
In the Jewish quarter of Kraków in the 17th century lived a man named Yossele, who was both infamous and pitied. He was a miser, so the town...
