Ecce Homo: The Botched Painting That Saved a Town
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2017
Eighty-three year old amateur artist Cecilia Giménez had nothing but good intentions when she turned her attention towards a deteriorating f...
A Hanging Tree, Graves And Hemingway: The Colorful History of Captain Tony's Saloon
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2017
There appears to be nothing remarkable about Captain Tony's Saloon housed in a yellow, two-storied building at 428 Greene Street in Key ...
Kitsault: The Ghost Town Where Lights Are Still On But No One’s Home
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2017
Think ghost town and you’ll probably imagine ruins —roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coa...
The Infamous Mauthausen Stairs of Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2017
The Mauthausen concentration camp, situated about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz in Upper Austria, was the hub of one of the largest...
La Pascualita, The Corpse Bride
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2017
Peering out from behind the glass window of a small bridal shop in Chihuahua, Mexico, stands a tall, slender figure dressed in bridal costum...
The Second Life of Wind Turbine Blades
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2017
As the world pushes towards renewable energy, the wind energy industry comes to the forefront as a clean and a genuinely green energy. And l...
The Frankincense Trees of Wadi Dawkah
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2017
For more than 5,000 years, the Arabs have traded two highly prized fragrances —frankincense and myrrh— obtained from trees that grow exclusi...
Semaphore: The World’s First Telegraph
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2017
Smoke signals and beacons have been used to relay messages over short distances since ancient times, but the only reliable way to send messa...
Rosalia Lombardo: The Mummy That Blinks
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 10, 2017
Rosalia Lombardo was only two years old when she died from pneumonia in 1920. Her premature death left her father so heartbroken that he app...
The Museum of Bad Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2017
On rare occasions, a thrift store or a pawnshop can yield items of extreme value, but these are hardly the places you can expect to bump int...
