Dementia Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2020
At first glance, Hogewey, a small community situated about 20 km outside of Amsterdam looks like any other Dutch town. Residents go about th...
The Relocation of Abu Simbel Temples
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2020
Hundreds of towns and villages have perished due to massive earth-moving projects such as the construction of dams. But the temples at Abu S...
Christopher Columbus’s House in Genoa
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2020
It would have been wonderful to see the actual house where Christopher Columbus grew up. Unfortunately, the one that stands in Genoa today i...
Astola Island: Pakistan’s Hidden Gem
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2020
About 25 km off the coast of Balochistan, in the Arabian Sea, lies a large uninhabited island about 7 km long and 2.5 km wide, with sheer wh...
Malbork Castle: The Brick Marvel
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2020
The Malbork Castle in northern Poland wears two feathers in its cap. Not only it is the largest castle in the world measured by land area, i...
Miss Subways: The Tube Beauty Contest
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2020
For thirty five years, between 1941 and 1976, a company called New York Subways Advertising ran a city-wide beauty contest. Any New Yorker a...
Colorado Springs: A City Built Upon Tuberculosis
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2020
One of the leading causes of death in Europe and in the United States during the 19th century was tuberculosis, a disease that has plagued h...
The Bad Beer Brawl: St. Scholastica Day Riot
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2020
On the south-west corner of Carfax, in Oxford, a small, inconspicuous inscription on the side of an old building marks the site of one of th...
The Great Colonnade at Apamea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2020
One of the main characteristics of the most important cities of Antiquity in the Hellenistic kingdoms, first, and in the Roman territories o...
Thagomizer: Why Stegosaurus’ Spiky Tail Was Named After A Cartoon
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2020
Humans and stegosaurus missed each other by more than 150 million years, but people have always wondered how difficult or terrifying life wo...
