Hermits As Garden Ornaments
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 24, 2019
Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, a certain reproachful and voyeuristic trend emerged among wealthy British landowners. Not content w...
Thomas Edison’s Forgotten Passion: Building Concrete Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2019
Of all things Thomas Alva Edison is known for, concrete is not one of them. It was one of Edison's less successful ventures, but not one...
François Coignet’s Reinforced Concrete House
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2019
In a quiet suburb, north of Paris, by the River Seine, stands a derelict four-story building. Its windows and doors are broken, some are bar...
The Galloping Horse Problem And The World’s First Motion Picture
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2019
“The 1821 Derby at Epsom” by Théodore Géricault Horses have appeared in works of art throughout history. They have appeared in prehistoric...
Cunningham Sanitarium
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2019
On the shores of Lake Erie, in Cleveland, the United States, there once stood a giant steel sphere sixty-four feet tall. Inside the sphere ...
Mocha Dick: The Whale That Inspired Moby Dick
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2019
About thirty kilometers off the coast of Chile is a small teardrop-shaped island called Mocha, inhabited by the indigenous Mapuche people. ...
Taiwan’s Giant Wall of Propaganda Spewing Speakers
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2019
Just off the southeastern coast of mainland China, lies a group of two islands collectively called Kinmen. For over seventy years, these is...
The Avian Honeyguides of Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 12, 2019
South of the great Sahara Desert in North Africa, there lives a bird called the greater honeyguide ( Indicator indicator ) that has develop...
The Great Aurora of 1859
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2019
On the evening of September 2, 1859, after the sun went down on the western hemisphere, a spectacular show of light began on the skies abov...
Churches of Peace: The Churches That Defied The Holy Roman Emperor
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2019
In the towns of Jawor and Świdnica, in the Silesia neighborhood of Wroclaw, Poland, stand two magnificent timber-framed churches. The Holy ...
Pretty in Pink: The Muralla Roja
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2019
This innovative pastel-colored postmodern apartment complex is a popular landmark in the coastal town of Calpe, Spain. It is called Muralla...
Telefon Hírmondó, The Telephone Newspaper
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2019
When cell phones were first introduced, they were unattractive, brick-like devices that could do nothing more than make voice calls and sen...
Vellir: This Icelandic Geyser is in The Middle of a River
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2019
Iceland has many geysers but none is stranger than Vellir, also known as Árhver, because it is located smack in the middle of a flowing riv...
Porto Flavia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
On the west coast of Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, there was once an unusual port. It’s a small opening on t...
Kyshtym: The Nuclear Disaster That Was Kept Secret For 30 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2019
Thirty years before the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded, in what became one of the most devastating nuclear accidents in history, ther...
How Kazakhstan Became The Entire Soviet Union For 4 Days
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2019
1991 was a notable year in the geopolitical history of the world. It was the year the Gulf War started marking the beginning of America’s c...
The Hanging Coffins of China And Philippines
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2019
The ancient Bo and Guyue people of southern China did not bury their dead. Instead, they hung their coffins from tall cliffs. This peculiar ...
The Warship That Couldn’t Stay Afloat
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2019
During the American Civil War, the Union Navy designed a class of warships called “Casco” that could submerge its hull at will to make the b...
Gilbert Hill: Mumbai’s Forgotten 66 Million Years Old Heritage
Kaushik Patowary
May 28, 2019
Concrete buildings aren’t the only thing that rises vertically in the metropolis of Mumbai, India’s most populous city. In a suburb, north ...
Martha Gellhorn, The Only Woman Who Landed in Normandy on D-Day
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2019
On the eve of the Normandy landings in June 1944, there were over a thousand war correspondents all over Europe reporting back to the mill...
