Puzzlewood: Tolkien's Inspiration For Middle Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2017
The “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel of the same name were shot almost entirely in New Zealand,...
Newton's Apple Tree in Lincolnshire
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2017
The story of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple is one of the most famous anecdotes in science. The young Isaac Newton was sitting under...
Ise Jingu: The Japanese Shrine That’s Torn Down And Rebuilt Every 20 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2017
The Ise Grand Shrine, also known as Ise Jingu, located in the city of Ise, in Japan, is one of Shinto's holiest and most important sites...
The Painted Monasteries of Romania
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2017
In northern Romania, in a region historically known as Bukovina, are a collection of eight Byzantine-era churches renowned for their beautif...
The Art of Well Dressing
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2017
Every year throughout summer many villages in Derbyshire and Staffordshire decorate their wells and water sources—a custom known as well dre...
The Udny Mort House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2017
Much of what we know about the human anatomy comes from dissecting human cadavers. The practice goes back to classical antiquity. The Greeks...
Madam Coudray’s 18th Century Manikin For Midwife Trainees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2017
This crude fabric doll of a small child emerging out of a fabric womb was one of the first life-sized obstetrical manikin used by Angélique ...
Sheela-Na-Gig: The Mysterious Medieval Carvings of Women Exhibitionists
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2017
The Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire is famous for its Norman carvings of writhing snakes an...
The Rock Houses That Inspired Tolkien
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2017
In 1777, a certain Joseph Heely of Birmingham published a guide book to the three great West Midland gardens of the mid-18th century with a ...
Medieval ‘dos-Ã -dos’ Book Bindings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2017
Back in mediaeval times, when people didn’t have Kindles to carry a thousand books, some book binders bound two separate books together in a...
