The Huron King Nuclear Test
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2020
The Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas, is scattered with relics from the United Stat...
Abu Ballas: The Pottery Hill
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2020
In 1917, British surveyor Dr. John Ball made an unusual discovery in the Libyan desert in Egypt. About 180 km south-west of the Dakhla Oases...
The 1940 Mid-Air Collision at Brocklesby
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2020
In New South Wales, Australia, about 120 km south of Wagga Wagga, lies a small community of farmers and cattle rearers called Brocklesby. Th...
The Shirt Collar Mail
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2020
On April 21, 1906, three days after the terrible San Francisco earthquake, James Graves Jones dispatched a letter to his family in New York,...
Gbadolite: The Versailles of The Jungle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2020
Deep in the rainforest, more than 1,000 km from Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo, lies the decaying city of Gbadoli...
The Failed British Plan to Destroy Nazi Factories With Exploding Rats
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2020
During the Second World War, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE)—a secret organization whose job was to conduct espionage and sab...
Pierre André Latreille: The Entomologist Who Escaped Death Because of a Beetle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2020
Pierre André Latreille owed his life to a beetle. The French zoologist is often considered to be the father of modern entomology, having mad...
The 1925 Serum Run To Nome: The Incredible Story of How a Remote Alaskan Town Was Saved From an Epidemic
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2020
In the winter of 1925, a small Alaskan town called Nome, situated on the edge of the Arctic circle, found itself on the brink of an unimagin...
Petrozavodsk Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2020
On September 20, 1977, between midnight and the early hours of the morning, people over a vast region in eastern Europe, stretching from Cop...
The Underground Fortress of Château de Brézé
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2020
Château de Brézé is a small castle by European standards. Occupying less than 2 acres, this modest U-shaped building surrounded by a dry moa...
