The Four Inch Flight: The Comical Beginning to Project Mercury
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2020
Like many firsts in spaceflight, Project Mercury began with a failure. The goal of the mission was to put a man in space and bring him safel...
Vladimir Tatlin’s Unbuilt Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2020
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the leader of the victorious Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, launched a massive monument-building pro...
Etienne Bottineau And The Lost Art of Nauscopie
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2020
Etienne Bottineau was a sailor and an employee of the French East India Company who possessed a remarkable skill. Bottineau could detect shi...
Désert de Retz
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2020
François Racine de Monville had at his disposal a large estate on the edge of a 2,000-hectare-forest, in the commune of Chambourcy, about 15...
The Audacity of Peter Tordenskjold: The Naval Captain Who Asked His Enemy For Ammo in The Middle of a Battle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2020
On November 12, 1720 Peter Tordenskjold died in a sword duel. It will not sound familiar to most people, but he was one of the great nationa...
Chinese Magic Mirrors
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2020
For over a thousand years, a rare type of Chinese artifact has been baffling researchers. It’s a polished bronze mirror with a pattern cast ...
Burnley Embankment
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2020
Regarded as one of the “Seven Wonders of British Waterways”, the Burnley Embankment, locally known as “The Straight Mile”, is an impressive ...
The Train of The End of The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2020
At the southernmost tip of South America, beyond the Andes, lies the beautiful and colorful city of Ushuaia, regarded by some as the souther...
The Post Offices of Love and Romance
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 9, 2020
The town of Bridal Veil, located in Multnomah County, Oregon, the United States, a little distance from the Bridal Veil waterfalls, remains ...
Anthropology Days: The Racist Olympic Event of 1904
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2020
Starting from the late 19th century through the early 20th, human exhibitions were a routine part of circuses, traveling shows, and major ex...
