Bank of Vernal: The Building That Was Mailed Through The Post
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2018
The inauguration of domestic parcel post service by the United States Postal Office in 1913 was an epochal event in the lives of thousands o...
Vinegar Valentines: The Victorian Tradition of Sending Anonymous Hate Mail
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2018
In the late 19th century, Valentine's Day was more than an occasion for lovers to express their love for each other by sending greetings...
The Basement Cemetery of The New Haven Green Church
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2018
The New Haven Green in downtown New Haven, a city in Connecticut, USA, is a small park of about 16 acres. Being surrounded by buildings of t...
The Magnificent Mudbrick Mosques of West Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2018
All around the Muslim world, mosques have a typical architecture characterized by a minaret, a dome, arches and mosaics or stucco decoration...
Priest Holes: Secret Chambers That Hid Mediaeval Priests
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2018
In mediaeval England, when feuds were violent and justice swift and brutal, it was common for castles and mansions of the powerful and the w...
Yaodong: China’s Pit Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2018
For more than four thousand years, on the Loess Plateau in northern China, people have been residing in caves known as yaodong, which is Chi...
Women Who Become Men: The Sworn Virgins of Albania
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2018
In the remote mountains of northern Albania are villages where there are women who live and act like men. They have short hair, wear baggy p...
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 ...
