The Dam Climbing Alpine Ibex
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2019
Alpine Ibex are big mountain goats that live among the peaks in the European Alps where predators cannot reach. They occupy the steep, rock...
The Adorable Custom of ‘Telling The Bees’
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2019
The bee friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924) There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a stra...
Luna 15: The Soviet Probe That Tried to Gatecrash America’s First Moon Landing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2019
Two hours before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were scheduled to leave the surface of the moon after their historic moonwalk, an unmanned ...
Prinkipo Orphanage: Europe’s Largest Wooden Building
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2019
This rickety wooden building, practically on the verge of collapse, is the largest wooden building in Europe and the second largest in the ...
Fake Tree Observation Posts of WW1
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2019
Camouflaging has always been a part of warfare, but it was only during the two world wars that things got really creative. During the First...
The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
In 1993, while rummaging through a junk shop in Vienna, Austria, artist Oliver Croy made an extraordinary discovery—hundreds of beautiful, ...
Why Batman’s Gotham City is Named After a Nottinghamshire Village
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
Gotham is a fictional city in the DC Universe but its namesake is not. Located across the Atlantic in South Nottinghamshire, this quiet, lit...
Somalia’s Hand Painted Storefronts
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2019
Many businesses and shopkeepers in Somalia—which is one of the world’s poorest nations—cannot afford luxuries such as backlit signs and viny...
The Temples of Mount Fanjing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2019
Fanjingshan or Mount Fanjing, in Guizhou Province in southwest China, is a sacred Buddhist site and a place of great natural beauty with un...
Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2019
Few traffic jams are as organized and coordinated as the ones that took place nationwide in the morning of September 3, 1967, on the streets...
Nasoni: Rome’s Ubiquitous Water Fountains
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2019
Drinking fountains in Rome are as quintessential as the city’s many Roman monuments. Standing about three feet high, these 200-pound cylind...
How War Drove to Extinction The Wake Island Rail
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2019
The day Japan bombed Pear Harbor, many American outposts in the Pacific, such as Philippines, Guam, Midway, Wake Island, Malaya, Thailand,...
People Once Downloaded Games From The Radio
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2019
The year 1977 was an important year in the history of home computing. That year, the world’s first microprocessor-driven personal computer ...
Wrigley Field’s Rooftop Seats
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2019
One of the best spots to watch the Chicago Cubs play at their home ground, Wrigley Field, is not inside but outside the stadium, from the r...
Voder: The World’s First Talking Machine
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2019
That voice in your GPS navigator, the virtual assistant in your smartphone, and the automated responses you get when you dial a company hel...
Cragside: The World’s First House To Have Electric Lights
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2019
Nearly a decade before Thomas Edison began working on incandescent lamps and a more affordable way to bring the bright world of electricity...
Carrières de Lumières: An Immersive Art Gallery in a Disused Quarry
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2019
In the Les Baux-de-Provence of southern France, is located Carrières de Lumières , or the Quarries of Light—an unusual multimedia exhibit sp...
Vardo: The Opulent Caravans of The Gypsies
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2019
Living in trailer homes is largely an American culture , but the history of mobile homes originated in Europe. The first trailer home owne...
The Castle of Zafra
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2019
In the beloved TV series Game of Thrones, young Ned Stark is seen clashing swords with the henchmen of Targaryen in front of a spectacular c...
Mimizuka: The Burial Site of Thousands of Noses
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2019
In the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood in the suburb of Kyoto, Japan, is a 30-foot-high, grass-covered hillock within which are b...
