Sable Island: The Graveyard of The North Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2023
About 300 km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lies a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar, whose existence has been a bane on shipping for centuries...
Princess May’s Dramatic Grounding
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2023
In August 1910, a Canadian steamship named Princess May ran aground near Sentinel Island, off the coast of Alaska, in the most spectacular ...
Curfew Bell
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2023
Nearly every medieval house in Europe used to have an open hearth where a fire was kept going at all times to keep the occupants warm, and a...
Jacques Charles And The First Hydrogen Balloon
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2023
On June 4, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers gave the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon in southern France. The balloon, made of ...
The White Woman of Gippsland
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2023
For the past 180 years a legend have persisted in Gippsland, in southeastern Victoria, Australia, about a shipwrecked white woman who was al...
James Bartley: The Sailor Who Got Swallowed by a Whale And Survived
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2023
In 1891, a sensational story appeared in the St. Louis Globe Democrat of Saint Louis, Missouri. According to the news report, a young sail...
Charles Boycott: The Man Who Became a Verb
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2023
The act of boycotting an organization or a person dates back to centuries, but the word “boycott” itself is relatively new. It entered Engli...
How Kate Shelley Saved a Train
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2023
In 1901, the Chicago & North Western Railway erected a new bridge over Des Moines River in Boone, Iowa, the United States. The bridge wa...
Serge Voronoff: The Doctor Who Transplanted Monkey Testicles Into Men to Rejuvenate Them
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2023
One of the most sensational presentations at the 1923 International Congress of Surgeons in London was made by the Russia-born French surgeo...
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings: The Building That Changed The World’s Skyline
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2023
In 1797, an extraordinary building went up in Shropshire that would change the skylines of our cities forever. Described as “the grandfather...
