Exercise Tiger: The Disastrous D-Day Rehearsal That Cost 800 Lives
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2018
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers stormed into the beaches of northern France in what became the larg...
World War II’s Other Iconic Photo: Raising A Flag Over The Reichstag
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2018
When photographer Joe Rosenthal snapped the picture of five US marines and a Navy sailor raising the American flag over the battle-scarred J...
Richardson Olmsted Complex: A Historic Insane Asylum Turned Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2018
The Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo, the United States, is a modern name for the Buffalo State Hospital, which itself was originally c...
The Longest Straight Line Land And Sea Route
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2018
The red line on this world map looks all curvy, but in reality is a perfectly straight line. Remember, the earth is spherical, so any strai...
The Lost City of Cahokia
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2018
A thousand years before Columbus's men would land on the shores of America, a new city was sprouting on the floodplains of modern-day St...
China’s Bicycle Graveyards
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2018
Over the last few years, the bicycle-sharing phenomenon has taken the world by storm, especially in China, where—according to one report —th...
Pop Culture Dystopia
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2018
Dystopian future is a favorite trope among movie directors, writers and artists alike. Decaying landscape, overgrown bushes, and crumbling r...
Toxic Art: The Almaden Mercury Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2018
At the Joan Miró Foundation, a contemporary museum on Montjuïc hill in Barcelona, is a fascinatingly deadly piece of art—a fountain of mercu...
Strings And Knots: Inca’s Cryptic Writing System
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2018
While Geoffrey Chaucer was writing The Canterbury Tales in late 14th century, the Inca scholars high up in the Andes were struggling to put...
The Soccer Stadium Lying On Two Hemispheres
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2018
This Friday, two local Brazilian football clubs—Santos FC and Macapá—will face each other at the Estádio Milton Corrêa, a multi-purpose sta...
