Rainbow Colored Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2018
Soil is typically brown, but when mixed with the right minerals in right quantities, it can yield a fascinating range of colors. You can see...
Fore-edge Painting: Hidden Artworks on The Edges of Books
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2018
The following video created by an archivist at Cornell University’s Library, New York, shows a 1925 copy of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim...
The House That Was Moved Across The Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2018
Sometimes a house just needs to be moved no matter what’s the cost. Usually, these are historic structures that are in danger of demolition ...
Tipu Sultan’s Mechanical Tiger
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2018
The sun is the hottest when the clock strikes one in the small town of Seringapatam, not far from the city of Mysore, in present day Karnata...
Stuckie The Mummified Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
Fifty years ago a dog went up a tree chasing a racoon or something. He never came down. Fast forward twenty years. A group of loggers cut d...
The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
Netherlandish Proverbs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2018
Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...
London Railings Made From World War 2 Stretchers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2018
Many housing estates throughout London are surrounded by black steel and mesh railings with peculiar notches around the edges. Although at f...
The Legacy of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2018
A two-hour bumpy ride from Uyuni across Bolivia’s high plains will take you to the small town of San Vicente. At the entrance to this remote...
