Peary Land, The Land of Extremities
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2018
The northern tip of Greenland, despite being situated a little over 700 km from the north pole, is entirely ice free and has been for the la...
Why Do Many Historic Buildings in The UK Have Bricked Up Windows?
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2018
There was a time in Great Britain when having windows in homes and buildings were prohibitively expensive. That time began in 1696 with the...
John Cleese’s Rubbish Dump in Palmerston North
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2018
Just outside the city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand is a rubbish dump named Mt Cleese. It’s perhaps the first time...
The Eufala Oak The Owns Itself
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2018
There once stood a huge oak tree near the center of Eufala, a small city in Alabama, the United States. The 65-foot-tall tree was the city’s...
Beechey Island And Franklin’s Lost Expedition
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2018
On the southwest corner of Devon Island in the Canadian Archipelago of Nunavut, lies a small desolate island—the island of Beechey. For more...
Anna Creek: A Cattle Station Bigger Than Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2018
In Australia, cattle stations—which is the equivalent of an American ranch—tend to be unimaginably large, so large that some of them are big...
Fort Blunder: The Fort That America Mistakenly Built in Canada
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2018
During the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, between Great Britain and the United States, the border between British Canada an...
That Time When America Banned Sliced Bread
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2018
Modern life is full of conveniences but few things are as convenient as sliced bread. Just think about it. To make a sandwich all you need ...
The Frost Fairs of River Thames
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2018
Between the 13th and the 19th centuries, the northern hemisphere was in the grip of a “Little Ice Age”. Temperatures dropped worldwide as su...
The Ruins of Western Xia’s Imperial Tombs
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2018
About 30 kilometers to the west of the modern city of Yinchuan, lies the enormous burial complex of the Western Xia dynasty. Spread over 40 ...
