The Spectacular Sets of Early 20th Century New York Theater
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2017
Many theatrical set designers today follow the maxim of “less is more”, but in the old days when theaters had to compete with moving picture...
Joe Reginella’s Memorials to Disasters That Never Happened
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2017
Most remember October 29th, 1929—also known as Black Tuesday—as the day when the New York stock market crashed. However, it was also the day...
Inside The Strange World of Soviet Sanatoriums
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2017
In Soviet Russia, vacations were as purposeful as work. Many state workers of the era, instead of wasting time in idleness, used the holiday...
Alexander Graham Bell's Tetrahedral Kites
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2017
Alexander Graham Bell is best remembered for inventing the telephone, but the great Scottish inventor’s interests weren’t limited to just on...
Moscow’s Bagel House
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2017
In the early 1970s, Russian architect Evgeny Stamo and engineer Alexander Markelov came up with plans for an unusual house in the capital ci...
Rivers of Blood: The Aftermath of Eid al-Adha in Dhaka
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2017
Early last month, a macabre image of a little girl posing in what appears to be a street flooded with blood-stained rainwater went viral ove...
The Earth Pyramids of South Tyrol
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
At many places across South Tyrol, in northern Italy, one can see a peculiar geological formation called “earth pyramids”. They consist of t...
Ireland’s Famine Follies
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
In the grounds of the Castletown Estate, near the Irish town of Maynooth, is a large stone structure comprising of interlocking arches, ador...
A Garden In A Sinkhole
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
The region in the southeast of South Australia, near Mount Gambier, is littered with many volcanic and karst features such as volcanic crate...
The Mysterious Sajama Lines of Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2017
Crisscrossing the highland plains in western Bolivia is a network of thousands of near perfectly straight lines etched into the ground. Thes...
