Operation Christmas Drop
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
For the last sixty four years the US army has been playing Santa Claus to some 20,000 people inhabiting dozens of tiny Micronesian islands s...
Gävle Goat: The Christmas Goat That Vandals Can’t Keep Their Hands Off
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
Every year for Advent, about a month before Christmas, the town of Gavle, in Sweden, builds a giant Christmas goat out of straw. And every y...
Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished Mosques
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
In the late 1990s, amidst rising poverty and with four million residents on the verge of famine, the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein deci...
The Pout Of A Red-Lipped Batfish
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
Named after Charles Darwin, Ogcocephalus darwini, or the red-lipped batfish, is an unusual looking fish. It is a type of anglerfish, the sa...
Gilmerton Cove of Edinburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
Just a few meters beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village on the southern edge of the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, lies a ...
Citadelle Laferrière of Haiti
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
The Citadelle Laferrière, located on top of a mountain in northern Haiti, is one of the largest fortresses in the Americas. The Citadel was ...
Towers of Silence
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2016
The Zoroastrians have an unusual way of disposing off their dead. They neither bury them nor cremate them. Instead, corpses are left atop hi...
Belchite: The Ruins of The Spanish Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2016
Forty kilometer southeast of the city of Zaragoza, in north-eastern Spain, lies the ghost town of Belchite, that was destroyed in 1937 durin...
11 Foot 8 Inches: The Infamous ‘Can Opener’ Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2016
At 11 foot 8 inches, the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, located in Durham, North Carolina, United States, is a bit too short. The...
Nagoro: The Japanese Village of Dolls
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2016
The village of Nagoro on the south-western island of Shikoku, in Japan, was once home to hundreds of residents. But over the years, Nagoro’s...
