Saint Catherine's Monastery And The World’s Oldest Library
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2018
Deep in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, in a region of wilderness made up of granite rock and rugged mountains, lies the town of Saint Catheri...
The Forgotten Islands of The Wadden Sea
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2018
Just off the northwest coast of Germany, in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, are a series of ten extremely low-lying islets known as Halligen o...
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...
