Gustave Doré’s Victorian London
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
Our visual image of Victorian London is largely fixated on its sordidness—cramped streets, dark alleys, desolate slums, overcrowding, and i...
The Cranes of River Clyde
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2019
A giant cantilever crane looms over a car park adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn at Glasgow City. During its heydays, this crane used to lo...
Operation Sailor Hat
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2019
On the coast of Kahoʻolawe, the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands of Hawaiian, is a large crater left behind by a violent test con...
Cycling Through Water
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2019
Through a large pond in the De Wijers nature reserve in Limburg, Belgium, runs a cycling lane that goes right through the waters instead of ...
The Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2019
The death of Genghis Khan is shrouded in secrecy. The Great Khan died in the summer of 1227, during a campaign against the Tanguts, along t...
Trümmerfrauen: The Women Who Helped Rebuild Germany After World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2019
After the end of World War 2, one of the main tasks was to clear the urban areas of ruin and start rebuilding Europe—Germany in particular, ...
The Hand of Glory
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2019
At the Whitby Museum in North Yorkshire is a strange artifact—a dismembered hand, dried and shriveled. It once belonged to a man who was han...
Berezniki: The Russian City Swallowed By Sinkholes
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2019
The city of Berezniki, in Russia’s Ural mountains, is slowly sinking into the earth. The city of more than 150,000 individuals was built dir...
The Rockets of Mysore
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2019
Rockets were originally invented not to send things into space, but to shoot enemies with. Their effectiveness in warfare was demonstrated ...
Alexander Mitchell: The Blind Engineer Who Gave Sight to Seafarers
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2019
Sandbanks are a hazard to marine traffic . Often found near coastlines, near the mouth of a river and around ports, these shallow, submerged...
Human Decomposition in Japanese Artwork
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2019
In traditional Buddhist teachings, contemplating about death is an integral part of meditation. Buddha himself said that death is “the gre...
Why Victorian People Loved Posing Next to Aspidistra Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2019
Potted plants have been a part of households for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all kept houseplants in thei...
The Crooked Trees of Hafford
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2019
Approximately twenty kilometers northwest of the town of Hafford, in Saskatchewan, Canada, and just over five kilometers south-west of Altic...
Las Médulas: The Largest Roman Gold Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2019
This incredible serrated landscape of red mountains and green chestnut trees is the result of two centuries of destructive mining carried o...
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, ...
