The Balloon Satellites of Project Echo
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2020
The world’s first communication satellite was remarkably unsophisticated—a big silvery plastic balloon coated with aluminum, soaring roughly...
A Hidden Memorial to Lenin in a Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2020
Vladimir Lenin was a controversial Russian revolutionary leader who has been idolized and demonized in equal proportions since his death in ...
The Soviet Bomber That Was Reverse Engineered From Stolen American B-29s
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2020
Ask anyone, what won the war against Japan during the Second World War, and the answer would invariably be the ‘atomic bomb’, but truth be...
The Vajont Dam Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2020
In the valley of the Vajont River, about a hundred kilometers north of Venice, stands an old, disused dam. The vast wall of white, wedged hi...
The Masked Women of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2020
Head covering, veils and burqas are common sight among many Muslim communities around the world. There are a lot of different styles and ea...
The Windmills of Paris
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2020
Windmills of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Paris is not exactly hilly, but there are a couple of high points in the city where one can ea...
Büsingen am Hochrhein: The Town Torn Between Two Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2020
Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German town with a lot of Swiss character. That’s because this small town on the Rhine is entirely surrounded by ...
Dürkheimer Riesenfass: The Giant Cask
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2020
The historic town of Bad Dürkheim lying on the edge of Palatinate Forest on Germany's oldest wine routes, is well known for its vineyard...
The Jailhouse That Got Accidentally Sold
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2020
It takes quite a stretch of imagination to call Harvard a city. With an area just over half a square mile and population of about one thousa...
The Rzhev Memorial to Soviet Soldiers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2020
A towering new statue honoring Soviet soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War is to be unveiled tomorrow, June 30, in th...
