John Stringfellow And The World's First Powered Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2024
In 1842, British engineers William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow received a patent for a flying machine. Unlike previous attempts made...
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Antimony Pill: The Everlasting Pill
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2024
Antimony—the soft, lustrous gray metal—has many industrial uses such as in the preparation of flame-retarding compounds and in the manufactu...
The Killer Whales of Eden
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2024
The Thaua people, who reside around Twofold Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, share a special bond with killer whales or...
Xerxes Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2024
The Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece, that juts into the Aegean Sea for some 50 kilometers, was once bisected by a canal a hundred fee...
Olivier Levasseur’s Lost Treasure
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2024
On the 7th of July 1730, the notorious French pirate, Olivier Levasseur, faced his final moments on the scaffold. His crimes, which had inst...
Casimir Zeglen: The Priest Who Invented The Bulletproof Vest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2024
On October 28, 1893, the tranquility of Chicago was shattered with the assassination of its mayor, Carter Harrison, who was shot on the door...
The Ransom Room
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2024
In the northern highlands of Peru lies the historic city of Cajamarca, where the great Inca empire met its demise. It was on this soil that ...
Bedford Level Experiment: The 19th Century Experiment That Laid The Foundation of The Flat Earth Society
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2024
In 1838, English writer and socialist, Samuel Rowbotham, set out to disprove what the ancient Greeks as well as modern scientists had long e...
Bob The Railway Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2024
In the heart of South Australia's railway history, a charming and loyal canine companion left an indelible paw print on the tracks – Bob...
The Braamfontein Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2024
The city of Johannesburg in South Africa was founded on gold after the precious metal was discovered on the Witwatersrand by Jan Gerrit Bant...
