The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
In 1993, while rummaging through a junk shop in Vienna, Austria, artist Oliver Croy made an extraordinary discovery—hundreds of beautiful, ...
Why Batman’s Gotham City is Named After a Nottinghamshire Village
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
Gotham is a fictional city in the DC Universe but its namesake is not. Located across the Atlantic in South Nottinghamshire, this quiet, lit...
Somalia’s Hand Painted Storefronts
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2019
Many businesses and shopkeepers in Somalia—which is one of the world’s poorest nations—cannot afford luxuries such as backlit signs and viny...
The Temples of Mount Fanjing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2019
Fanjingshan or Mount Fanjing, in Guizhou Province in southwest China, is a sacred Buddhist site and a place of great natural beauty with un...
Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2019
Few traffic jams are as organized and coordinated as the ones that took place nationwide in the morning of September 3, 1967, on the streets...
Nasoni: Rome’s Ubiquitous Water Fountains
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2019
Drinking fountains in Rome are as quintessential as the city’s many Roman monuments. Standing about three feet high, these 200-pound cylind...
How War Drove to Extinction The Wake Island Rail
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2019
The day Japan bombed Pear Harbor, many American outposts in the Pacific, such as Philippines, Guam, Midway, Wake Island, Malaya, Thailand,...
People Once Downloaded Games From The Radio
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2019
The year 1977 was an important year in the history of home computing. That year, the world’s first microprocessor-driven personal computer ...
Wrigley Field’s Rooftop Seats
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2019
One of the best spots to watch the Chicago Cubs play at their home ground, Wrigley Field, is not inside but outside the stadium, from the r...
Voder: The World’s First Talking Machine
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2019
That voice in your GPS navigator, the virtual assistant in your smartphone, and the automated responses you get when you dial a company hel...
