Project Stargazer: Astronomy From Balloons
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2026
For a few hours on a December day in 1962, two men floated at the edge of space beneath a giant balloon, peering into the heavens through a ...
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Douglas Corrigan's "Wrong Way" Flight to Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2026
When Douglas Corrigan climbed out of his weather-beaten Curtiss Robin at Baldonnel Airfield near Dublin on 18 July 1938, he claimed to have ...
Tiny Broadwick's Massive Legacy
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2026
On June 21, 1913, a tiny woman weighing barely 80 pounds climbed into an airplane over Los Angeles and prepared to do something no woman had...
The Texas City Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2026
On the morning of April 16, 1947, residents of Texas City, a busy industrial port on the Gulf Coast of Texas, watched smoke rise from a carg...
The Sultana Disaster: The Deadliest Maritime Tragedy America Forgot
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2026
In the early hours of April 27, 1865, a steamboat packed with nearly two thousand exhausted Union soldiers drifted northward on the Mississi...
The US Navy's Failed Formosa Expedition
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2026
Nearly a century before the Vietnam War, the United States undertook one of its first military interventions in East Asia. It was not a full...
The Beale Ciphers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2026
Somewhere in the hills of Virginia, the United States, according to an enduring legend, there remains buried a vast fortune in gold, silver,...
King Clone: The 11,700-Years-Old Bush
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2026
Just off Bessemer Mine Road, not far from Pioneertown, in California’s Mojave Desert stands what appears to be an unremarkable ring of shrub...
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...
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 ...
