Brighton And Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2020
Two children looking up at the car of the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway. Photo: Hemmings Motor News For five years...
The Walnut Grove of Arslanbob
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2020
In the Djalalabad region of Southern Kyrgyzstan, at the foot of the Babash Ata Mountain, lies the village of Arslanbob surrounded by an enor...
Abu Hureyra, The Place Where Humans Became Farmers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2020
Civilization is said to have begun independently across the world at six sites, dubbed the “cradle of civilization. Two of these are in the ...
Scuttling at Scapa Flow: When The German Navy Sank its Own Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2020
The Armistice of 11 November 1918, that ended hostiles between the Allied and the Allies, left little for negotiation. The Germans were give...
The Last German Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2020
The weather station where 11 German soldiers were trapped, forgotten by the fallen Nazis. Weather played an important role during the Se...
The Ghost Town of Gagnon, Quebec
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2020
Gagnon, in Quebec, is a ghost town unlike any other. There are no abandoned buildings, or homes, or any visible infrastructure that would su...
The 6,000-Year-Old Eel Traps of Budj Bim
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2020
The Gunditjmara people of southwestern Victoria, Australia, have been living in a region of roughly 7,000 square kilometers west of Hopkins ...
Stannard Rock Light: The Loneliest Place in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2020
The life of a light housekeeper is always lonely, but for sixty years those who served the Stannard Rock Light in Lake Superior, it was extr...
The Skull Tower of Niš, Serbia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2020
In the city of Niš, in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, stands a macabre monument to the Serbian resistance against the Ottoman's 400-...
The Locomotive That Walked: William Brunton’s Steam Horse
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2020
Railway engineering has come a long way from Richard Trevithick’s first steam locomotive to today’s high speed Maglev trains. Throughout th...
The Cottbus MiG-21 Crash of 1975
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2020
On Schmellwitzer Street in Cottbus, in northeast Germany, stands an old five-story apartment building. High up on the face of the building...
The Sad Tale of The Dionne Quintuplets
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2020
Nobody could have known, not even Elzire Dionne, that she was going to give birth to quintuplets. Already a mother of five, the shock of giv...
Autumn Harvest Drying in Huangling
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 15, 2020
Huangling in Wuyuan County, in east China's Jiangxi Province, is a small picturesque village built on the hillside, surrounded by specta...
The Shipwreck That Gave Birth to South Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 15, 2020
On 16 January 1647, a fleet of three Dutch ships—the Nieuwe Haerlem, the Olifant and the Schiedam—left Batavia, which is now Jakarta, for th...
Mödlareuth: The German Village Divided by The Cold War
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2020
The village of Mödlareuth in south Germany, straddles the border between the two federal states of Bavaria and Thuringia. For more than 14...
Bremer Loch: The Hole of Bremen
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2020
Image credit: dcabrerizo/Flickr There is an unusual donation box installed beneath the streets in front of the State Parliament building...
Slovak Radio Building: The Inverted Pyramid
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2020
Some call it ugly. Others defend it for its architectural features. Whichever faction you side with, you can’t deny that it is an exceptiona...
The Radiological Incident in Lia, Georgia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 10, 2020
On a cold December day in 2001, three men took their truck and drove 50 kilometers east from their village Lia in order to collect firewood....
Attabad Lake: The Lake Created By a Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2020
The stunning blue colors of this beautiful lake, nestled among the peaks of the Karakoram mountain range in northern Pakistan, belies its vi...
Karl Patterson Schmidt: The Herpetologist Who Documented His Own Death For Science
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2020
Karl Patterson Schmidt was an eminent American herpetologist—one who studies amphibians and reptiles. He worked for the American Museum of N...
