Nedelin Catastrophe: The Worst Space-Related Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2023
The Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan is one of the busiest and the most important spaceport on earth with over a thousand satellit...
Optography: Preserving a Dead Person’s Last Sight
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2023
In 1924, Germany was rocked by a sensational case of multiple homicide. Fritz Heinrich Angerstein, a resident of Limberg, Germany, had bruta...
Glacier Girl: The P-38F Lightning That Was Rescued From Beneath The Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2023
During the Second World War, the United States initiated a massive movement of aircrafts and ground troops across the Atlantic and into the ...
Botafumeiro: The Most Famous Thurible in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2023
In the Santiago de Compostela Archcathedral Basilica in Galicia, Spain, hangs a very special thurible. It is so special that it has a name o...
Ennigaldi-Nanna: The World’s First Museum Curator Was a Woman
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2023
In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...
Peter Stumpp: The Werewolf of Bedburg
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2023
In The Knave of Harts , a collection of satirical poems penned by Samuel Rowlands, the English poet makes an allusion to a certain German ca...
Karolina Olsson: The Woman Who Allegedly Slept for 32 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2023
In the small island of Oknö near Mönsterås, Sweden, a young girl named Karolina Olsson went to bed complaining of a toothache. She wouldn’t ...
Falowiec: The Wave Building of Gdańsk
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2023
In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a series of peculiarly shaped apartment blocks were constructed in the Polish city of Gdańsk. They we...
Purton Hulks: The Ship Graveyard
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2023
One of the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain was created not by accident, but by the deliberate sinking of tens of old trawler and ...
The Strange Burial Customs of Trunyan Village
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2023
On the eastern shore of Lake Batur, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, lies the village of Trunyan—home to the culturally isolated Bali Aga p...
