Shoeburyness Boom: A Cold War Era Defense Across The Thames
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2021
At first glance, the concrete piles lying off the coast of southeast Essex, near the town of Shoeburyness, looks like the exposed columns of...
The Silver Tree of Karakorum
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2021
Of all the things described in William of Rubruck's account of his travels through 13th-century Asia, perhaps none is so striking as the...
Mäusebunker: Berlin’s Mouse Bunker
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2021
Sitting squarely in the middle of Berlin is a monstrous-looking building with façade of solid grey concrete, punctured by long ventilation t...
Spindletop: The Gusher That Launched The Oil Industry
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2021
Although the modern oil industry is said to have begun with the drilling of the first oil well by Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania, it was the di...
The Helfaut-Wizernes Dome
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2021
In the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, close to the commune of Helfaut and Wizernes, lies a large Nazi bunker built during the ...
Why The Soviet Union Exchanged Warships For Pepsi
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2021
The American soft drink giant Pepsi has a long presence in Russia dating back to the early 1970s when Russia was still a part of the Soviet ...
San Francisco’s Hidden Cisterns
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2021
Scattered around San Francisco are a total of 177 large cisterns buried beneath the streets. Their presence is visible at many intersections...
The Cave of Swimmers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2021
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was surprisingly green with rich vegetation, trees and lakes that covered almost all of what is now sandy...
The Victorian Mail Order Business
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2021
In the beginning of the 19th century, a large Welsh town called Newtown on the River Severn became the center of the woolen industry. Like o...
Hells Bells
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2021
Deep down El Zapote cenote, a 50-meter-deep water-filled sinkhole in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites take a diff...
