Scuttling at Scapa Flow: When The German Navy Sank its Own Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2020
The Armistice of 11 November 1918, that ended hostiles between the Allied and the Allies, left little for negotiation. The Germans were give...
The Last German Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2020
The weather station where 11 German soldiers were trapped, forgotten by the fallen Nazis. Weather played an important role during the Se...
The Ghost Town of Gagnon, Quebec
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2020
Gagnon, in Quebec, is a ghost town unlike any other. There are no abandoned buildings, or homes, or any visible infrastructure that would su...
The 6,000-Year-Old Eel Traps of Budj Bim
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2020
The Gunditjmara people of southwestern Victoria, Australia, have been living in a region of roughly 7,000 square kilometers west of Hopkins ...
Stannard Rock Light: The Loneliest Place in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2020
The life of a light housekeeper is always lonely, but for sixty years those who served the Stannard Rock Light in Lake Superior, it was extr...
The Skull Tower of Niš, Serbia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2020
In the city of Niš, in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, stands a macabre monument to the Serbian resistance against the Ottoman's 400-...
The Locomotive That Walked: William Brunton’s Steam Horse
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2020
Railway engineering has come a long way from Richard Trevithick’s first steam locomotive to today’s high speed Maglev trains. Throughout th...
The Cottbus MiG-21 Crash of 1975
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2020
On Schmellwitzer Street in Cottbus, in northeast Germany, stands an old five-story apartment building. High up on the face of the building...
The Sad Tale of The Dionne Quintuplets
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2020
Nobody could have known, not even Elzire Dionne, that she was going to give birth to quintuplets. Already a mother of five, the shock of giv...
Autumn Harvest Drying in Huangling
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 15, 2020
Huangling in Wuyuan County, in east China's Jiangxi Province, is a small picturesque village built on the hillside, surrounded by specta...
