The Impeccable Counterfeits of Ceslaw Bojarski
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2026
On November 9, 1963, two investigators from France’s Central Office for Counterfeit Currency Control (OCRFM) arrived at the post office on R...
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Edinburgh Seven And The Surgeons' Hall Riot
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2026
On 18 November 1870, a crowd gathered outside the Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh. Inside, seven young women sat for an anatomy examination alon...
Schiehallion Experiment: How Astronomers Weighed The Earth
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2026
In the summer of 1774, a team of British astronomers working under the patronage of the Royal Society established camp at the foot of a lone...
Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2026
In fiction as well as in real life, counterfeiters have always been portrayed as master forgers and artists who reproduced banknotes with as...
SN 1006: The Brightest Supernova Ever Witnessed
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2026
In the spring of 1006, people across Asia and Europe looked up into the night sky and saw something astonishing: a brilliant new star blazin...
The Halifax Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2026
On 6 December 1917, in the harbour of Halifax, in Nova Scotia, Canada, two ships collided. One of them was a munitions ship loaded with expl...
Warships Wrapped in Cotton
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2026
During the American Civil War, naval warfare underwent rapid transformation. The famous ironclads such as the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia ...
Thiess of Kaltenbrun, The Benevolent Werewolf
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2026
In the year 1692, an 86-year-old man who lived in the town of Mālpils in Latvia stood before a judge and calmly proclaimed that he was a wer...
The Fertility Drug Derived From Nuns' Urine
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 21, 2026
Many medical therapies, from cancer treatments to the management of infertility, are now so routine that their origins are easily overlooked...
Filles du Roi: The King's Daughters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2026
In the mid-17th century, the French colony of New France faced a crisis that threatened its very survival. Despite fertile land and a steady...
