The Electronic Ears That Listen to Secret Nuclear Tests
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2016
Twenty years ago, the world's first Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) of 1996, that prohibits nations from conducting any kin...
The Giant Concrete Arrows Across The US
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2016
In the early 1900s, the fastest way to deliver mail was by rail, but there was a machine that could travel faster than trains, and that was,...
Witley Park’s Underwater Ballroom
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2016
Between Godalming and Haslemere, in Surrey, near the English village of Witley, once stood one of the most lavish private residences in the ...
Operation Christmas Drop
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
For the last sixty four years the US army has been playing Santa Claus to some 20,000 people inhabiting dozens of tiny Micronesian islands s...
Gävle Goat: The Christmas Goat That Vandals Can’t Keep Their Hands Off
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
Every year for Advent, about a month before Christmas, the town of Gavle, in Sweden, builds a giant Christmas goat out of straw. And every y...
Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished Mosques
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
In the late 1990s, amidst rising poverty and with four million residents on the verge of famine, the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein deci...
The Pout Of A Red-Lipped Batfish
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
Named after Charles Darwin, Ogcocephalus darwini, or the red-lipped batfish, is an unusual looking fish. It is a type of anglerfish, the sa...
Gilmerton Cove of Edinburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
Just a few meters beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village on the southern edge of the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, lies a ...
Citadelle Laferrière of Haiti
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
The Citadelle Laferrière, located on top of a mountain in northern Haiti, is one of the largest fortresses in the Americas. The Citadel was ...
Towers of Silence
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2016
The Zoroastrians have an unusual way of disposing off their dead. They neither bury them nor cremate them. Instead, corpses are left atop hi...
Belchite: The Ruins of The Spanish Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2016
Forty kilometer southeast of the city of Zaragoza, in north-eastern Spain, lies the ghost town of Belchite, that was destroyed in 1937 durin...
11 Foot 8 Inches: The Infamous ‘Can Opener’ Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2016
At 11 foot 8 inches, the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, located in Durham, North Carolina, United States, is a bit too short. The...
Nagoro: The Japanese Village of Dolls
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2016
The village of Nagoro on the south-western island of Shikoku, in Japan, was once home to hundreds of residents. But over the years, Nagoro’s...
Lycurgus Cup: A Piece of Ancient Roman Nanotechnology
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2016
In the 1950s, the British Museum came into possession an ancient glass chalice called the Lycurgus Cup, so named for its depiction of Dionys...
The Golden Fire Hydrant of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2016
After a massive earthquake rocked the city of San Francisco on April 18, 1906, fires erupted all around the city from ruptured gas lines, ov...
The Island Where Donkeys Wear Pyjamas
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2016
The Island of Rhea, or Île-de-Ré in French, off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, is a popular summer destination known for its gen...
The Sewer Gas Destructor Lamps of England
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In Victorian England, gas build-up in underground sewers was often a problem for the city dwellers. Old sewers were not always laid on suffi...
The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...
The Plague Village Of Eyam And Its Great Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2016
The Great Plague of London affected many places across England, but one small village in Derbyshire called Eyam, will always be remembered f...
World War 2 Wrecks of Solomon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2016
In the remote South Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea, and not far from Australia, lies a string of about nine hundred islands that make up ...
