The Case of The Exploding Teeth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2023
In the January 1861 issue of The Dental Cosmos , the first major journal of American dentistry, a Pennsylvania dentist named WH Atkinson doc...
Joseph Samuel: The Man Who Couldn’t be Hanged
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2023
Joseph Samuel was a petty criminal who broke into homes and stole stuff. There is nothing remarkable about his crimes, or about his life. Ho...
Clarence Madison Dally: The First Victim of Radiation
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2023
In December 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen submitted to Würzburg's Physical-Medical Society journal a preliminary report where ...
The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere That Was Buried For 50 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2023
The opening of a time capsule is supposed to be an exciting and nostalgic event that gives future generations a chance to peek into the past...
The Get Out And Push Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2023
For a very short five years, Wilmington, Los Angeles, was connected to the Willmore area of Long Beach by a street railway, initially pulled...
Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, The Divorce Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2023
For over six hundred years, the Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, had served as a refugee for wome...
The Himalayan Towers of China
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2023
In the Western Sichuan province, between central China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, there exist hundreds of mysterious stone towers, s...
The Tay Whale
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2023
The city of Dundee on the Firth of Tay, on the east coast of Scotland, was a major whaling port in the 19th century. But few locals had actu...
Kallima Inachus: The Butterfly That Pretends to be a Dead Leaf
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2023
A walk through the forests and rainforests of Southeast Asia may bring us a curious surprise. Perhaps at a certain moment while walking we n...
James Rumsey’s Steamboat
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2023
In 1787, American engineer James Rumsey demonstrated before a crowd of local notables a peculiar boat on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown ...
