The Gigantic Wine Barrel of Heidelberg
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 27, 2018
In a cellar under the Heidelberg Castle, in the German town of Heidelberg, sits a gigantic wooden keg. It’s the world’s largest wine barrel ...
The Island Named After A Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 25, 2018
Satellite imagery, made available to the public through applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps, have allowed anybody with a compu...
The Clifftop Folly of Frederick Hervey
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2018
Perched dramatically on the edge of a 120 feet tall cliff, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Mussenden Temple near Castlerock, in the nort...
The Skeleton of Jeremy Bentham
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2018
Pictured above is the council meeting of the University College London. The council meets every year, but this particular picture was taken...
The British Quarry That Hid Van Gogh, da Vinci and Rembrandt
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2018
For four years, a disused slate quarry in a remote mountain in North Wales became home to some of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces...
Marshalsea Debtors' Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 21, 2018
Back in Victorian times, being in debt and unable to pay was a serious crime, so much that there were special debtors’ prisons all around th...
The 17th Century Bond That’s Still Paying Interest
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2018
Sometimes a company or a government issues bonds that never mature. They are called perpetual bond, and as the name suggests, they remain in...
How Croatia Got The Coastline Away From Bosnia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2018
There is a small joke going around social media circles for the past few weeks involving the strange border between Croatia and Bosnia and H...
The Scientists Who Starved to Death Surrounded By Food
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2018
The 900-day Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was perhaps one of the most gruesome sieges in modern history. Hitler’s diabolic ...
The Strange Case of Kijong-dong And Daeseong-dong
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2018
After three years of bloody conflict that saw three million people dead, the two neighboring countries, North and South Korea, entered into ...
Bedale’s House For Leeches
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2018
On the banks of the Bedale Beck, in the small market town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, stands one of the most unusual historic buildings in...
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...
