An Incredible Move: The Indiana Bell Telephone Building
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2019
The relocation of the headquarters building of Indiana Bell Telephone Company in Indianapolis remains one of the most fascinating moves in t...
Shadwell Forgeries: How Two Illiterates Fooled Victorian Archeologists
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2019
During the middle of the 19th century, London’s antiquarian market was flooded by the sudden arrival of a large number of supposedly mediaev...
Megapode Egg Fields
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2019
Most birds incubate their eggs with body heat, but not megapodes, a chicken-sized bird with heavy body, short rounded wings and large, stron...
Fist Fights on Venetian Bridges
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2019
Throughout the Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, Venice was divided into many administrative districts and rival factions, who disp...
Fatberg: The Fatty Monster of The Sewer
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2019
Blockages in sewers are pretty common in cities across the globe. But how large a congealed mass of filth has to be before it gets its own n...
Russia’s Circular Warships
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2019
In the latter half of the 19th century, ships began to transition from wood to iron and many engineers thought the time was ripe to experime...
Fanny Burney’s Gruesome Mastectomy
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2019
In the days before anesthesia, the prospect of having to go under the knife was far more horrific than the affliction the procedure was supp...
The French Chateau With The World’s Largest Private Collection of Warplanes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2019
Among the rolling hills of Burgundy's wine country, surrounded by vineyards and forested land, stands a 14th-century castle belonging to...
The Ottoman Sultans Who Were Raised in Cages
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2019
Topkapi Palace from across the Bosporus, Istanbul. Photo credit: Faraways/Shutterstock.com Situated in the heart of Istanbul and visible f...
Gloria Ramirez: The Toxic Lady
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2019
Do you have people in your lives that you can’t stand? A co-worker perhaps, or a family member, or a grumpy neighbor. You may call them “tox...
