Demonstration of a Cantilever Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2018
A cantilever bridge is a bridge whose main elements are cantilevers—structures that are anchored at only one end while the other end floats ...
The Domes of Fabedougou
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2018
These weathered rocks in the village of Fabedougou, near Banfora, in south-western Burkina Faso resemble the sandstone towers of Bungle Bung...
Cropmarks: How Dry Weather Can Reveal Hidden Archaeological Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2018
Across Europe, and the world at large, there are a large number of archeological sites yet to be discovered. Many of these ancient settlemen...
Battle of Kohima: The Greatest World War Two Battle Everyone Forgot
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2018
Perched on top of a mountain ridge, some 5,000 feet up in the remote hilly terrain of northeast India, lies the town of Kohima, in what is n...
Morwellham Quay: A Historic Copper Port
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2018
Just four miles to the southwest of Tavistock, in Devon, England, “bordering the beautiful River Tamar, amidst towering cliffs and gently ro...
Tower of The Winds: The World’s First Weather Station
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2018
The Tower of the Winds, or the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes, is an elegant octagonal marble tower in the Roman Agora in Athens. It is...
The Story Behind Sydney’s ‘Eternity’ Graffiti
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2018
For over twenty five years, from 1930 to 1956, the people of Sydney woke up each day to a one-word sermon—”Eternity”—handwritten in yellow c...
Before The Internet, What People Asked New York Public Library's Librarians?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2018
Before there was the Internet and Google, the only way to find answers to a pressing question was to visit the local library and ask the all...
Tura Coo: The Cow That Led A Town To Riots
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2018
A hundred years ago, a small farming community called Turriff in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, became the unlikely stage for one of the most biza...
Broken Promises: The Wartime Evacuation of Imber And Tyneham
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2018
In the beginning of November 1943, all residents of Imber, a quiet little village at the heart of Salisbury Plain, were summoned to a meetin...
Kryptos: The Mystery Sculpture At CIA’s Headquarters
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2018
For the past 17 years, a cryptographic puzzle has stood on the grounds of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, taunting cryptograph...
The Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2018
The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia—Tigris and Euphrates—rises in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, and after flowing through...
Roger Babson: The Man Who Tried To Fight Gravity
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2018
Throughout history humans have learnt to live with gravity despite its innumerable inconveniences, accepting it as a physical fact of the un...
Trinity Bridge: The Orphaned Bridge of Crowland
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2018
In the heart of Crowland, a small town in Lincolnshire, England, is a unique attraction—a 14th century stone arch bridge standing by the sid...
Hallsands: The Village That Fell Into The Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2018
The island of Great Britain is shrinking. Every year several feet of land is washed away by the pounding waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Every ...
The Fuggerei: The World’s Oldest Housing Complex Where Rents Haven’t Gone Up For 500 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2018
In the 15th and 16th centuries, a certain German family of merchants known as the Fuggers rose to become one of the richest and the most pow...
How A Single Cat Hunted to Extinction The Entire Species of Stephens Island Wren
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2018
David Lyall held his breath as he made the first incision straight down the belly of a little mouse-like olive brown bird that lay on his de...
The Dogon Villages of Bandiagara Escarpment
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2018
In central Mali, about 90 km to the east of Mopti, rises a dramatic sandstone cliff with a high plateau above and sandy semi-desert plains b...
Bullfrog County: How an Empty County Tried to Prevent Nevada From Becoming The Nation’s Nuclear Waste Dump
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2018
Deep in southern Nevada’s Nye County, in the harsh, sun-drenched desert, there was once a small county named Bullfrog. It was one of the mos...
America’s Doomsday Bunkers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2018
Far into the unforeseeable future, when nuclear war and biological warfare had decimated the human population, killed most living beings and...
