WLW: The 500 Kilowatt Super Station
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2019
On most nights, during the 1930s, the airwaves over North America were dominated by a single radio station called WLW. Transmitting at a pow...
Quaker Guns of The American Civil War
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2019
“All warfare is based on deception,” Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War , an ancient Chinese military treatise, often regarded as one of the m...
The World’s First Cyber Attack Happened Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2019
Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertentl...
The Red Taj Mahal: John Hessing’s Tomb
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2019
The Roman Catholic Cemetery in Nehru Nagar, Agra, harks back to a time when the many princely states that eventually united to become India ...
Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 20, 2019
In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a myster...
Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs?
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2019
Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to t...
The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2019
The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the t...
Alai Minar: Alauddin Khilji’s Unfinished Minaret
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2019
The Qutub Minar in New Delhi is a well known landmark. The sandstone-colored minaret with intricately carved inscription and reliefs on its ...
The Wheel of Urine
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2019
A pot of urine can tell a lot about your diet and health. It can tell whether you are adequately hydrated, or how well your kidneys are func...
The Building That Steals Your Body Heat
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2019
More than a quarter million commuters pass through the Stockholm Central Station everyday, unaware that their bodies are being tapped for e...
The World’s Most Inland Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2019
Of all the lighthouses in the world, none was built further from the body of water it lit than the one on top of Bidston Hill, on the Irish ...
Salt Domes And Salt Glaciers of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2019
Million of years ago, the Persian Gulf was a much larger body of water than it is today, inundating large sections of the Arabian peninsula...
The Cactus That Crawls Across The Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2019
The narrow peninsula of Baja California Sur, sticking into the central Pacific off Mexico’s west coast, is home to a unique species of cactu...
The Arsonist Who Set Fire to an Ancient Wonder of The World So That People Would Remember Him
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2019
On the night of July 21, 356 BCE, two important events took place in the Mediterranean Basin. One created history, the other erased it. On ...
Stolpersteine: The ‘Stumbling Stones’ of Holocaust Victims
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2019
With hundreds of things to see in Berlin, few tourists pay attention to what lies under their feet. The barely four inch by four inch blocks...
The Catholic Church Built by a Muslim Emperor
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2019
The city of Agra on the banks of Yamuna is a historical city full of monuments from the Mughal period, of which the Taj Mahal is one of the ...
Earthquake Rose
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2019
On February 28, 2001, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 rocked the US state of Washington cracking sidewalks, toppling buildings, and causing s...
Lunatic Express: The Railway That Gave Birth to Kenya
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2019
More than a hundred years ago, before Europeans had set foot on what is now Kenya, a tribal prophet named Kimnyole spoke of a vicious “iron...
The Roadside Shrines of Greece
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2019
Roadside shrines erected in memory of those who lost their lives in road accidents are a common sight across Greece. They are found next to ...
How The Soviet Helped Vulcan, An American Town, Get a Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2019
In south West Virginia, near the border with Kentucky, the United States, is a small unincorporated community named Vulcan. Vulcan was onc...
