Barge Haulers on The Volga
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2019
Before the era of steam engines, the process of moving a boat or a barge up a river was extremely difficult. The usual method was to tow the...
The Egg War of Farallon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2019
The California Gold Rush of the 1850s induced another rush for a commodity, which, although not precious, became such rare and expensive tha...
Memorial to The First Icelandic Glacier Lost to Climate Change
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2019
Next month, August 2019, a team of researchers and geologists from Rice University in Houston, along with members of the Icelandic Hiking So...
Tempest Prognosticator: Predicting Storms With Leeches
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2019
Some animals have the instinctive ability to predict changes in the weather. Frogs croak when a storm is approaching, birds return to their ...
Australia’s Mouse Plagues
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2019
Rats and mice are big problems in Australia, especially around the grain-growing regions in the south and in the east. Every few years, mous...
The British Cemetery on American Land
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2019
For its size, the island of Ocracoke on the Outer Banks, off the coast of North Carolina, has a surprising number of cemeteries—more than ei...
Ffordd Pen Llech: The World’s New Steepest Street
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2019
A sleepy little seaside community in northwest Wales will soon find itself swamped by tourists. Just a few days ago, the Guinness World Reco...
Helepolis: The Failed War Machine From Which Rose a Wonder of The Ancient World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2019
At the entrance to the harbor of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, there once stood a colossal statue made of iron, ...
Jap Herron: A Novel Mark Twain Wrote After His Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2019
Mark twain died in 1910. Seven years later he wrote his last novel, Jap Herron —so claims St. Louis journalist and author Emily Grant Hutch...
The Relief Map of Guatemala
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2019
Sandwiched between Mexico on the northwest and El Salvador and Honduras on the east, the country of Guatemala may be small but it has a dive...
The Japanese Fishing Boat Whose Lethal Encounter With An Atomic Bomb Inspired Godzilla
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2019
Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting in...
Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2019
The Neolithic people of Great Britain were prolific builders. Just look at the British Isles—they are studded with countless ancient megalit...
The Rotating Solariums of Jean Saidman
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2019
The importance of sunlight to human health is well understood, and that understanding developed in the late 19th century when it was discov...
The Islands of Loosdrecht Lakes
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2019
Narrow elongated islands seen in an area called Scheendijk in the Loosdrecht Lakes, The Netherlands. Photo credit: George Steinmetz The L...
The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2019
One of Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries is a shipwreck known as the “Mahogany Ship”. It was first spotted in 1836 by a party...
The Aqueduct of Loukous
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2019
In the Greek municipality of North Kynouria in Peloponnese, near the villa of Herodes Atticus, a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a Roman senato...
Wainhouse Tower: The Tallest Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2019
Wainhouse Tower, standing high on a hill in the King Cross area of Halifax, is the tallest structure in Calderdale and a prominent landmark ...
Via Cava: The Cave Roads of Tuscany
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2019
In southern Tuscany, there is a mysterious network of old pathways deeply entranced into massive rocks appearing like narrow canyons flanked...
Bernd And Hilla Becher’s Industrial Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2019
For over 40 years, starting from the early 1960s, German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed over two hundred industrial plants and...
The Legend of Bingen’s Mouse Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2019
On a small island in the Rhine river, outside Bingen am Rhein, in Germany, stands a 10th century stone tower with a macabre legend associate...
