The Cults That Worship Cargo
Anonymous
Jun 13, 2022
Picture this: the second World War is unleashing upon the world, but in a far corner across the seas from America, patches of land remain un...
The Book That Became Famous Before it Was Published
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2022
Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days is one of those books where the story behind is more interesting than the book itself. It’s not tha...
Eigerwand, The Railway Station Carved Into The Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2022
The Jungfrau massif is flanked by the Grindelwald and Rhône river valleys in the south-central Swiss Alps, between the towns of Brig and Int...
The Westinghouse Atom Smasher
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2022
For almost 80 years, a huge lightbulb-shaped device stood in Forest Hills on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, United States. To...
The Round Towers of Ireland
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2022
A unique feature of the Irish landscape are its free-standing round towers or Cloigtheach , which literally means “bell house”. As their nam...
Mahabat Maqbara: A Forgotten Testament of Artistry
Anonymous
Jun 8, 2022
In Junagadh, Gujarat, the confluence of cultural influences in India epitomises in the form of an overlooked monument. Mahabat Maqbara—an ep...
Elephant Execution in The 19th And 20th Centuries
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2022
Performing elephants were very common in circuses during the 19th and 20th centuries. Circus owners would often treat these animals with cru...
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower—Twice!
Anonymous
Jun 6, 2022
Even if you think you know who Victor Lustig is, you don’t. Beyond the charming salutations, the livid scar on his left cheekbone and the ma...
Luna 9: The First Soft Landing on Another Planetary Body
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2022
The first spacecraft to achieve a survivable soft-landing on the moon was the Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 9. It was an exceedingly diffi...
Auguste Piccard: The Man Who Flew To The Stratosphere
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2022
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, who became the inspiration behind one of Tintin’s most lovable charact...
