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...
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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 ...
The Gloucester Sea Serpent
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2026
In the summer of 1817, a mysterious creature was seen swimming in the harbor of Gloucester and along the coast of Cape Ann. Eyewitnesses des...
Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2026
On the evening of 17 September 1908, a young American officer named Thomas Selfridge climbed into a fragile wooden aircraft at Fort Myer, Vi...
Frederic Tudor: The Ice King of Boston
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2026
In the early 19th century, the idea of exporting ice to the tropics sounded like a joke. Ice was heavy, fragile, and melted. Yet one Boston ...
Joseph A. Walker's Flight Into Space
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2026
Two weeks before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rode Vostok 1 into space to become the first human to complete a full orbit around the Earth,...
The Ansel Bourne Identity
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2026
In January 1887, a mild-mannered itinerant preacher named Ansel Bourne left his home in Greene, Rhode Island, to travel to nearby Providence...
Caroline Hampton's Rubber Gloves
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2026
In the late nineteenth century, modern surgery was still emerging from an era in which hygiene was, by today’s standards, startlingly poor. ...
Interstate 19: America's Only Metric Highway
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2026
The United States is often ridiculed for clinging to seemingly unintuitive units of measurement such as inches, miles, Fahrenheit, and pound...
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2026
Somewhere on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, buried beneath hundreds of feet of snow (or perhaps at the bottom of the ocean), lies an enor...
