How Mining Engineers Helped NASA Get to The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2020
The outrageous plot of NASA hiring a group of miners for a space mission may remind you of a certain Hollywood movie, but back in the mid-19...
The Nottingham Cheese Riot of 1766
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2020
1766 was a bad year for farmers. Crops failed all across Europe, and prices of wheat, flour, corn and other foodstuffs shot up as a conseque...
Rushton Triangular Lodge
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2020
The Triangular Lodge near Rushton, in Northamptonshire, England, is an unusual building. This three-sided house was built in the late 16th c...
The Turin Erotic Papyrus
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 5, 2020
The Turin Erotic Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll-painting that has long been a subject of intense interest among Egyptologists...
New York Moving Day: Mayhem on The Streets
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 4, 2020
The first day of May used to be absurdly chaotic for New Yorkers, for it was “Moving Day”—the once a year tradition when nearly a million te...
Banda: The Secret Island of Nutmegs
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2020
In the Banda Sea, roughly 2,500 km east of Jakarta lies the Banda Islands, a part of Indonesia. For thousands of years, this group of ten is...
The German-Japanese Village Where The Most Fearful Weapon Was Tested
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2020
One of the most devastating weapons ever invented was not the atomic bomb but napalm, the incendiary agent that was used extensively against...
A la Ronde: The 16-Sided House That’s Never Short of Sunlight
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 22, 2020
Near the village of Lympstone, in Devon, England, stands a unique 18th century property—a one of a kind 16-sided house built by two fiercely...
Broomway: Britain’s Deadliest Path
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2020
Situated on the east coast of Essex, England, on the estuary of River Roach, Foulness Island has long been controlled by the military. The a...
Casa de las Conchas: The House of Shells
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2020
Casa de las Conchas, or the House of Shells, is a curious attraction in Salamanca, Spain. This stately mansion built between the late 15th a...
