Posthumous Execution
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2018
The execution of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw in 1661, from a contemporary engraving. Oliver Cromwell, the 1st ruler of...
The EIRE Signs of World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 8, 2018
The recent heat wave in the UK has revealed more than ancient henges . Over at Bray Head, on the Irish coast, a short distance away from Du...
What Mathematics Has to Do With The Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2018
Wedged between Poland and Lithuania, along the Baltic Coast, is a piece of Russia located 200 miles away from the Russian border. The Kalini...
The Grave of Florence Irene Ford
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2018
The Natchez City Cemetery in Adams County, Mississippi, is home to several unusual tombstones. There is one called the “Turning Angel”, whic...
The Underground Rivers of London
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 6, 2018
Where London is situated today was once the floodplains of the river Thames, surrounded by gently rolling hills and valleys carved by the ri...
Palace of Shaki Khans
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2018
The city of Shaki in northern Azerbaijan is situated more than 300 km from Baku—too far away for most tourists to make the trip, but is home...
Mount Sunflower: The Tallest Peak With The Easiest Climb
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2018
Situated at a formidable height of 4,039 feet above sea level, the lofty summit of Mount Sunflower is the highest point in the state of Kans...
The Bamboo Bridge of Kampong Cham That is Built And Dismantled Every Year
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2018
Across the turbid waters of the Mekong River, in eastern Cambodia, runs a long rickety bamboo bridge connecting the river island of Koh Pen,...
Canary Girls: The World War One Women Who Turned Yellow
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2018
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917. Photo credit: Imperial War...
Siberia’s Cold Storage Ice Tunnels
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2018
The Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia stays covered in permafrost all throughout the year, and while the winters are chilly, summers are ...
London’s Secret Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2018
For more than 30 years, between 1962 and 1996, a nuclear reactor sat at the heart of London tantalizingly close to a busy thoroughfare and t...
The Great Texas Train Crash at Crush
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2018
Some publicity stunts can be complete train wrecks. Like that one time in 1613 when a real cannon was used to spice up the production of Sha...
China’s Waterfall Skyscraper
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2018
In a country where new buildings rise up every single day, it’s a challenge for architects to come up with original designs that stand out a...
Trona Pinnacles
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2018
This unique geological feature, called Trona Pinnacles, are located about 10 miles south of the mining community of Trona, in California’s d...
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...
