Why Britain Lost 11 Days in September 1752
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2020
Do you know how many British people were born between September 3 and September 13 in the year 1752? None. Absolutely no one was born, nobod...
Schuttberg: Germany’s Rubble Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2020
Scores of hills dot the edges of many German cities, but these are not natural. They are known as Schuttberg, or “debris hill”. Schuttberg...
A Licence to Watch Television
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2020
In many countries, owing a television involves more than one type of cost. First the device itself, which may cost, depending on your taste,...
Graft Chimera
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2020
On a small traffic island on Rodney Road, in Backwell, in the English county of North Somerset, stands a horticultural curiosity—a cherry tr...
Nikola Tesla’s Experimental Laboratory in Colorado Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2020
One of Colorado Spring’s most famous visitors was electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, who in the spring of 1899, set up a laborat...
Kinzua Viaduct: The Fallen Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2020
On 21 July 2003, a fierce tornado struck northern Pennsylvania and destroyed a large section of the Kinzua Viaduct, a historic railroad tres...
Pelorus Jack: The Dolphin Who Piloted Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2020
The northern end of New Zealand’s South Island is a chaos of bays and sounds, and within this intricate coastline lies a narrow and treacher...
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...
