Claude Ruggieri: Master of Pyrotechnic Brilliance
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2024
Fireworks have accompanied celebrations and festivities for at least a thousand years. They were first used in China during the Song dynasty...
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Ponte dei Trepponti: A Unique 5-Way Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2023
The Ponte dei Trepponti or Trepponti bridge is a rare five-way bridge located in Comacchio, Italy. Although the name “Trepponti”, originatin...
Girolamo Segato’s Mysterious Petrified Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2023
For thousands of years, different cultures across continents have successfully preserved bodies of their ancestors. For the Egyptians, mummi...
Amphitheater of Capua: The First Roman Amphitheater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2022
Of all the amphitheaters built by the Romans, the Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater in Rome is the largest of all in dimensions, followed by...
Frog Battery
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2022
The term ‘battery’ was first used by Benjamin Franklin in 1749 to describe an apparatus he had designed to produce electricity. Franklin lin...
What is Galvanism, And How Did it Inspire Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 16, 2022
On 18 January 1803, George Foster was hanged by the neck. The jury had found him guilty of murdering his wife and child by drowning them in ...
Staglieno Cemetery: Where Death is Beautiful
Anonymous
May 18, 2022
The cemetery of Staglieno represents more than the dead. It represents a confluence of movements that furthered the cause of the living. Cim...
Roman Dodecahedron: History’s Mystery
Anonymous
May 13, 2022
It is safe to say that there are secrets to the ancient Roman civilization that even a lifetime of scrutiny will not reveal to us. Yet histo...
How a German Air Raid in Bari Helped Discover a Cure For Cancer
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2022
On December 2, 1943, the Germans launched a surprise attack on a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking more than 20 Allied merchant ships ...
Scribonius Longus, The Roman Physician Who Used Electricity as a Treatment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2022
Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus ) was a 1st century AD Roman physician who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) an...
