Horse-Drawn Boats
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2018
Before diesel and electric engines made sailing convenient, boats and barges had to be either rowed or pulled. In many European countries su...
The Ziggurat of Choga Zanbil
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2018
The Egyptians had pyramids, the Mesopotamians had ziggurats, which are massive brick structures with raised platforms with successively rece...
Maison Carrée, The Most Intact Roman Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2018
Maison Carrée in Nimes, France . Photo credit: Lamax/Shutterstock.com The Maison Carrée in the city of Nimes, in southern France, is the o...
The Mines of Messines Ridge
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2018
About 8 kilometers south of Ypres, in the middle of a farm, is a small green pond known as the “Pool of Peace”, but its creation was a rathe...
Damme Canal: The Canal That Napoleon Built To Avoid The British Navy
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2018
A popular way to see the beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium is from a boat cruising along the city’s many canals. The historic city center ...
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge: The World's Longest Sea Crossing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
The world’s longest sea crossing connecting Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai opened this week in China. The unusual bridge cum tunnel system ...
Offa’s Dyke: The 1,200-Years-Old Dyke Separating Wales From England
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
In south-west England, there runs a great earthwork from the mouth of River Dee near Chester, to the estuary of River Severn near Chepstow, ...
Rectangular Iceberg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
Nature follows specific laws, but results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. So when NASA scienti...
Morocco’s Abandoned Movie Sets in The Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2018
In the early 1960s, movie director David Lean was scouting for locations to shoot his upcoming movie Lawrence of Arabia when he learned abo...
Michigan’s Massive Copper Boulders
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2018
In the early 17th century, fur traders traversing Lake Superior in North America heard tales of a fabulous boulder lying on the banks of the...
Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Unuseless Inventions
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2018
You have definitely seen a chindōgu. They are those ridiculous Japanese inventions designed to solve a particular problem but are, in fact, ...
The Lighthouse That Wrecked More Ships Than it Saved
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
For more than forty years a lighthouse stood on a large anvil-shaped peninsula jutting into the Tasman Sea near Jervis Bay, in southern Aust...
Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...
The Churches of Chiloé Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Off the coast of Chile, a group of about thirty islands belonging to the Chiloé Archipelago make up a fiercely independent community with it...
When ‘Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass’ Was a Real Thing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2018
This neat little box containing a pair of bellows and an assortment of pipes and other fixtures is a Tobacco Resuscitator Kit from the 18th...
Britain's Giant Hillside Chalk Figures
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2018
The Westbury White Horse carved on the hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Photo credit: tipwarm/Shutterstock.com A large portio...
How The London Bridge Was Sold to America
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2018
For centuries, children and kindergarteners have sung and danced to the tune of London Bridge is falling down , but when engineers discovere...
Galgano Guidotti And The Sword in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2018
The story of King Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur which he pulled out of a rock to prove his divine right to the throne is well kno...
The World’s Longest Portico
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
Portico di San Luca : Photo credit: Stefano Carnevali/Shutterstock.com Atop a forested hill, some 300 meters above the city of Bologna, st...
New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
