Of Mice, Men And Moon: A Short History of Animals in Space
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 18, 2020
More animals have flown to space than human beings. In the early years of space flight, all kinds of living beings from rodents to apes were...
London Bridge’s Nonsuch House
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2020
The Old London Bridge that stood for 600 years over Thames was the river’s key crossing point, as well as the city’s prime real estate area....
A Racing Horse Named Potoooooooo
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2020
There was once a great racehorse in 18th-century Britain named Potoooooooo, who was famed for his endurance and speed. He won over 30 races ...
Thames Tunnel: The World’s First Tunnel Under a River
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2020
At the beginning of the 19th century, London was one of the busiest river ports in the world, and the 600-year old stone bridge over Thames ...
Why Britain Lost 11 Days in September 1752
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2020
Do you know how many British people were born between September 3 and September 13 in the year 1752? None. Absolutely no one was born, nobod...
Schuttberg: Germany’s Rubble Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 7, 2020
Scores of hills dot the edges of many German cities, but these are not natural. They are known as Schuttberg, or “debris hill”. Schuttberg...
A Licence to Watch Television
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2020
In many countries, owing a television involves more than one type of cost. First the device itself, which may cost, depending on your taste,...
Graft Chimera
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2020
On a small traffic island on Rodney Road, in Backwell, in the English county of North Somerset, stands a horticultural curiosity—a cherry tr...
Nikola Tesla’s Experimental Laboratory in Colorado Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2020
One of Colorado Spring’s most famous visitors was electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, who in the spring of 1899, set up a laborat...
Kinzua Viaduct: The Fallen Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2020
On 21 July 2003, a fierce tornado struck northern Pennsylvania and destroyed a large section of the Kinzua Viaduct, a historic railroad tres...
Pelorus Jack: The Dolphin Who Piloted Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2020
The northern end of New Zealand’s South Island is a chaos of bays and sounds, and within this intricate coastline lies a narrow and treacher...
Dementia Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2020
At first glance, Hogewey, a small community situated about 20 km outside of Amsterdam looks like any other Dutch town. Residents go about th...
The Relocation of Abu Simbel Temples
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2020
Hundreds of towns and villages have perished due to massive earth-moving projects such as the construction of dams. But the temples at Abu S...
Christopher Columbus’s House in Genoa
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2020
It would have been wonderful to see the actual house where Christopher Columbus grew up. Unfortunately, the one that stands in Genoa today i...
Astola Island: Pakistan’s Hidden Gem
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2020
About 25 km off the coast of Balochistan, in the Arabian Sea, lies a large uninhabited island about 7 km long and 2.5 km wide, with sheer wh...
Malbork Castle: The Brick Marvel
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2020
The Malbork Castle in northern Poland wears two feathers in its cap. Not only it is the largest castle in the world measured by land area, i...
Miss Subways: The Tube Beauty Contest
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2020
For thirty five years, between 1941 and 1976, a company called New York Subways Advertising ran a city-wide beauty contest. Any New Yorker a...
Colorado Springs: A City Built Upon Tuberculosis
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2020
One of the leading causes of death in Europe and in the United States during the 19th century was tuberculosis, a disease that has plagued h...
The Bad Beer Brawl: St. Scholastica Day Riot
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2020
On the south-west corner of Carfax, in Oxford, a small, inconspicuous inscription on the side of an old building marks the site of one of th...
The Great Colonnade at Apamea
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2020
One of the main characteristics of the most important cities of Antiquity in the Hellenistic kingdoms, first, and in the Roman territories o...
