Rainbow Colored Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2018
Soil is typically brown, but when mixed with the right minerals in right quantities, it can yield a fascinating range of colors. You can see...
Fore-edge Painting: Hidden Artworks on The Edges of Books
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2018
The following video created by an archivist at Cornell University’s Library, New York, shows a 1925 copy of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim...
The House That Was Moved Across The Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2018
Sometimes a house just needs to be moved no matter what’s the cost. Usually, these are historic structures that are in danger of demolition ...
Tipu Sultan’s Mechanical Tiger
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2018
The sun is the hottest when the clock strikes one in the small town of Seringapatam, not far from the city of Mysore, in present day Karnata...
Stuckie The Mummified Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
Fifty years ago a dog went up a tree chasing a racoon or something. He never came down. Fast forward twenty years. A group of loggers cut d...
The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
Netherlandish Proverbs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2018
Hanging at the Gemäldegalerie art museum in Berlin, Germany, is an unusual painting. Measuring 64 inches by 46 inches, this 16th century oil...
London Railings Made From World War 2 Stretchers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2018
Many housing estates throughout London are surrounded by black steel and mesh railings with peculiar notches around the edges. Although at f...
The Legacy of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2018
A two-hour bumpy ride from Uyuni across Bolivia’s high plains will take you to the small town of San Vicente. At the entrance to this remote...
Fort Conger: Robert Peary’s Arctic Hut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2018
In 1899, when famous arctic explorer Robert Peary reached Ellesmere Island, in Canada, he found the ruins of a hut erected by a previous arc...
The Witches’ Market of La Paz, Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2018
Along a narrow cobblestone street in an old quarter of La Paz , in Boliva, old women dressed in traditional Andean garb of colorful ankle-le...
Elbphilharmonie: A Spectacular New Concert Hall in Hamburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2018
Exactly one year ago, on January 11, 2017, a new concert hall opened in Hamburg, Germany. Like a ship on dry dock, the new glassy constructi...
Athabasca Sand Dunes
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Stretching for approximately 100 kilometers along the southern edge of Lake Athabasca, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, are some of...
The Soledar Salt Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...
Honoring Animals Used in Research And Testing
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2018
The United States’ National Academies of Sciences estimates that as many as 22 million vertebrate animals are used every year in the United...
Akademgorodok: Siberia’s Silicon Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2018
Tucked away in a remote forest of birch and pine in the heart of Siberia, 3,000 km away from Moscow, at a place where winters are six months...
The Russian Woodpecker
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2017
Anyone who listened to shortwave radio or was a ham radio operator from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s will be familiar with a sharp, repet...
The Fortified Villages of Khevsureti
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2017
Tucked away in the Caucasus Mountains in the north of Georgia, is the historic province of Khevsureti. Its men were once renowned in martial...
Britain’s Thankful Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 27, 2017
War memorials are a familiar sight in towns and villages across Britain, somberly remembering the sacrifices made by millions of ordinary yo...
