The Sinking of U-boat 864
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 9, 2023
During World War II, German U-boats wrought havoc upon Allied supply lines and commercial shipping inflicting heavy losses on merchant convo...
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The Building That Gave Its Residents Leukemia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2023
Building number 7 on Gvardeytsiv Kantemirovtsiv street (now known as Mariyi Pryimachenko Street) in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, was the most recent...
The Singapore Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2023
At the mouth of the Singapore River, at a promontory known variously as Rocky Point and Artillery Point, there once stood a massive boulder ...
How A Dog Saved Darwin From Bombing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2023
Throughout history, animals have held significant roles in wars and conflicts. Cavalry horses were deployed to charge the enemy, pigeons con...
Arthur John Priest: The Unsinkable Stoker
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2023
If there was anyone on board the Titanic that truly deserved the title “unsinkable” it was a coal stoker named Arthur John Priest, who surv...
Adrian Carton de Wiart: The Most Battle-Scarred Soldier
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2023
No one who has been touched by war has emerged from the experience unchanged. In the case of Adrian Carton de Wiart, who had participated in...
Boynton’s Bicycle Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2023
For a brief two years during the 1890s, there was a rail service between Gravesend and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The railway was u...
Pakistan’s Century-Old Horse-Drawn Train
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2023
In 1903, a famous social activist named Ganga Ram established a unique mode of transport in his village in Faisalabad, Pakistan. It was a tr...
MS Hans Hedtoft: Denmark’s Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2023
Nearly five decades after the sinking of the Titanic , another tragedy struck in the oceans. A Danish liner was on her maiden voyage off the...
William Rankin: The Man Who Fell Through a Thundercloud
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2023
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin gently pulled back the stick of his F-8 Crusader to put the single-engine supersonic fighter jet on ...
