The Model Villages of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2017
Starting from the late 18th century, many English landowners and industrialists began building villages to provide housing for their workers...
The Mystery of The Longyou Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2017
In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...
The Humongous Fungus
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2017
Beneath the soil in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, the United States, lurks a very large fungus that has been slowly weaving...
Paracas Candelabra of Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2017
The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are some of the best known geoglyphs on earth, but they aren’t the only ones in the Nazca desert. About 200...
Herculaneum: Pompeii’s Less Famous Neighbor
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2017
In late August 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius blew its top off and for three days death rained down upon towns, villas and farms surrounding the volc...
Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2017
This question, which appears in the form of a graffiti on a towering brick obelisk in Hagley in Worcestershire, England, has been haunting t...
Kuching, The Cat City
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2017
The city of Kuching, in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, is full of cats. There are cats on the sidewalk, at traffic signals, in parks, ins...
Hattusa: The Ancient Capital of The Hittites
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2017
One of Turkey’s lesser visited but historically significant attraction is the ruin of an ancient city known as Hattusa, located near modern ...
The Forgotten Sport of Octopus Wrestling
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2017
One April morning in 1963, some five thousand spectators gathered on the shores of Puget Sound near the Tacoma Narrows, in Washington, to wa...
The Steam Hammers Of The Industrial Age
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2017
Standing proudly at the entrance to the French industrial town of Le Creusot, in the region of Bourgogne in the eastern part of the country,...
