The Mystery of The Campden Wonder
Anonymous
Mar 21, 2022
The year was 1660. In south west England’s Gloucestershire sat a small town called Chipping Campden—a single street rotting under soot and l...
How Dusko Popov Inspired James Bond
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2022
In Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov , author Larry Loftis calls Dusko Popov a showman. He's the stuff of movies,...
Henry Ford’s Soybean Car
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2022
You might blame Henry Ford and his hugely popular T-model for sparking our insatiable passion for cars and the environmental degradation it ...
The Lying Stones of Adam Beringer
Anonymous
Mar 15, 2022
Fossils prove the existence of life at its peak, but in Dr Adam Beringer’s case, they wrote nothing but demise. Almost 300 years ago, he dis...
Jenny: The Orangutan That Helped Darwin Evolve His Theory
Anonymous
Mar 14, 2022
If you visit the Darwin Archive at Cambridge University Library (DAR 191) today, you will find notes on orangutans recorded by Charles Darwi...
Treaty of Kadesh: The World’s First Peace Treaty
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2022
On the walls of the Temple of Karnak near Luxor, Egypt, and on the temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II in Thebes, are engravings that describe a g...
The Sculpted Rocks of Rothéneuf
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2022
In 1879 in a small town in the south-east of France called Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, a postman began the construction of a fantastic palace, w...
Ambergris: The Highly Sought-After ‘Whale Vomit’
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2022
The sea washes up all kinds of strange stuff , from carcasses of whales and squids to fossils and ancient shipwrecks. But nothing is as prec...
Thomas Midgley Jr.: The One-Man Environmental Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2022
The unnatural warming of the Earth’s atmosphere in the past century or two can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution when humans began...
The Field of Cloth of Gold
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2022
Situated just ten miles south of Calais, Balinghem is an unremarkable little village, but five hundred years ago this quiet countryside play...
