The British Quarry That Hid Van Gogh, da Vinci and Rembrandt
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2018
For four years, a disused slate quarry in a remote mountain in North Wales became home to some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces...
Marshalsea Debtors' Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2018
Back in Victorian times, being in debt and unable to pay was a serious crime, so much that there were special debtors’ prisons all around th...
The 17th Century Bond That’s Still Paying Interest
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2018
Sometimes a company or a government issues bonds that never mature. They are called perpetual bond, and as the name suggests, they remain in...
How Croatia Got The Coastline Away From Bosnia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2018
There is a small joke going around social media circles for the past few weeks involving the strange border between Croatia and Bosnia and H...
The Scientists Who Starved to Death Surrounded By Food
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2018
The 900-day Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was perhaps one of the most gruesome sieges in modern history. Hitler’s diabolic ...
The Strange Case of Kijong-dong And Daeseong-dong
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2018
After three years of bloody conflict that saw three million people dead, the two neighboring countries, North and South Korea, entered into ...
Bedale’s House For Leeches
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2018
On the banks of the Bedale Beck, in the small market town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, stands one of the most unusual historic buildings in...
Posthumous Execution
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2018
The execution of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw in 1661, from a contemporary engraving. Oliver Cromwell, the 1st ruler of...
The EIRE Signs of World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2018
The recent heat wave in the UK has revealed more than ancient henges . Over at Bray Head, on the Irish coast, a short distance away from Du...
What Mathematics Has to Do With The Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2018
Wedged between Poland and Lithuania, along the Baltic Coast, is a piece of Russia located 200 miles away from the Russian border. The Kalini...
