John Cleese’s Rubbish Dump in Palmerston North
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2018
Just outside the city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand is a rubbish dump named Mt Cleese. It’s perhaps the first time...
The Eufala Oak The Owns Itself
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2018
There once stood a huge oak tree near the center of Eufala, a small city in Alabama, the United States. The 65-foot-tall tree was the city’s...
Beechey Island And Franklin’s Lost Expedition
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2018
On the southwest corner of Devon Island in the Canadian Archipelago of Nunavut, lies a small desolate island—the island of Beechey. For more...
Anna Creek: A Cattle Station Bigger Than Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2018
In Australia, cattle stations—which is the equivalent of an American ranch—tend to be unimaginably large, so large that some of them are big...
Fort Blunder: The Fort That America Mistakenly Built in Canada
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2018
During the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, between Great Britain and the United States, the border between British Canada an...
That Time When America Banned Sliced Bread
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2018
Modern life is full of conveniences but few things are as convenient as sliced bread. Just think about it. To make a sandwich all you need ...
The Frost Fairs of River Thames
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2018
Between the 13th and the 19th centuries, the northern hemisphere was in the grip of a “Little Ice Age”. Temperatures dropped worldwide as su...
The Ruins of Western Xia’s Imperial Tombs
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2018
About 30 kilometers to the west of the modern city of Yinchuan, lies the enormous burial complex of the Western Xia dynasty. Spread over 40 ...
The Jingle Trucks of Pakistan
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2018
A typical Pakistani truck driver spends more time with his truck than he does with his wife. Which explains why he wants his 10-ton six-whee...
The Ramree Island Crocodile Massacre
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2018
That night was the most horrible that any member of the motor launch crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black sw...
Riverside: The Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2018
James Tiberius Kirk— Star Trek fans will recollect—was the youngest captain in the Starfleet history, who boldly lead the starship USS Ente...
THUMS: California’s Secret Oil Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2018
Not too far off the coast of Long Beach, California, are a set of four artificial islands containing towering white buildings set amidst pal...
Why Dogs Can’t Stand ‘The Cave of Dogs’
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2018
In the west of Naples, Italy, is a large volcanic area called Phlegraean Fields filled with craters of old, extinguished volcanoes. Lying mo...
The Postal Stones of Madagascar
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2018
About 2 km off the coast of Madagascar, in the Bay of Antongil, is a small, uninhabited, tropical island called Nosy Mangabe. The island is ...
Henderson Island: This Uninhabited Island Is The World’s Most Polluted
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2018
The remote island of Henderson—a tiny dot in the South Pacific Ocean—lies approximately halfway between New Zealand and Chile. It is one of ...
The Library That Stands On Two Countries
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2018
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House has two different addresses. If you are American, you’ll say the library is located at “93 Caswell ...
The 30,000 Keys of Baldpate Inn
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2018
In 1913, American novelist Earl Derr Biggers penned a comedic mystery novel titled “Seven Keys to Baldpate”, that became so famous that it i...
The Great Raft of The Red River
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2018
Before the arrival of the Europeans, “log jams” formed by the accumulation of fallen trees and driftwood on rivers and streams were a common...
How Bermuda’s Chronic Water Shortage Shaped The Islands’ Iconic White Roof
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2018
Bermuda’s brilliantly white rooftop houses are iconic of the islands, but they aren’t just for show—they serve an important purpose. Without...
Osaka Stadium’s Housing Expo
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2018
Where the magnificent Namba Parks stand today at Naniwa-ku, in Osaka, Japan, once stood Osaka’s baseball stadium. Opened in 1950 with a cap...
