The Storybook Houses of Los Angeles
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2020
At the intersection of Carmelita Avenue and Walden Drive, in Beverly Hills, California, there stands a house which appears straight out of a...
The Huron King Nuclear Test
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2020
The Nevada Test Site in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas, is scattered with relics from the United Stat...
Abu Ballas: The Pottery Hill
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2020
In 1917, British surveyor Dr. John Ball made an unusual discovery in the Libyan desert in Egypt. About 180 km south-west of the Dakhla Oases...
The 1940 Mid-Air Collision at Brocklesby
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2020
In New South Wales, Australia, about 120 km south of Wagga Wagga, lies a small community of farmers and cattle rearers called Brocklesby. Th...
The Shirt Collar Mail
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2020
On April 21, 1906, three days after the terrible San Francisco earthquake, James Graves Jones dispatched a letter to his family in New York,...
Gbadolite: The Versailles of The Jungle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2020
Deep in the rainforest, more than 1,000 km from Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo, lies the decaying city of Gbadoli...
The Failed British Plan to Destroy Nazi Factories With Exploding Rats
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2020
During the Second World War, the British Special Operations Executive (SOE)—a secret organization whose job was to conduct espionage and sab...
Pierre André Latreille: The Entomologist Who Escaped Death Because of a Beetle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 29, 2020
Pierre André Latreille owed his life to a beetle. The French zoologist is often considered to be the father of modern entomology, having mad...
The 1925 Serum Run To Nome: The Incredible Story of How a Remote Alaskan Town Was Saved From an Epidemic
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2020
In the winter of 1925, a small Alaskan town called Nome, situated on the edge of the Arctic circle, found itself on the brink of an unimagin...
Petrozavodsk Phenomenon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2020
On September 20, 1977, between midnight and the early hours of the morning, people over a vast region in eastern Europe, stretching from Cop...
The Underground Fortress of Château de Brézé
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 23, 2020
Château de Brézé is a small castle by European standards. Occupying less than 2 acres, this modest U-shaped building surrounded by a dry moa...
The Disgrace of Gijon: The Match That Changed World Cup Football
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2020
For the first time in the history of FIFA World Cup, the 1982 edition of the tournament in Spain saw 24 teams take part instead of the usual...
The Iron Bridge of Shropshire
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2020
The world’s first cast iron bridge still stands in Shropshire, England, across River Severn. It’s more than two hundred years old. Althoug...
The Four Inch Flight: The Comical Beginning to Project Mercury
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2020
Like many firsts in spaceflight, Project Mercury began with a failure. The goal of the mission was to put a man in space and bring him safel...
Vladimir Tatlin’s Unbuilt Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2020
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the leader of the victorious Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin, launched a massive monument-building pro...
Etienne Bottineau And The Lost Art of Nauscopie
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2020
Etienne Bottineau was a sailor and an employee of the French East India Company who possessed a remarkable skill. Bottineau could detect shi...
Désert de Retz
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2020
François Racine de Monville had at his disposal a large estate on the edge of a 2,000-hectare-forest, in the commune of Chambourcy, about 15...
The Audacity of Peter Tordenskjold: The Naval Captain Who Asked His Enemy For Ammo in The Middle of a Battle
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2020
On November 12, 1720 Peter Tordenskjold died in a sword duel. It will not sound familiar to most people, but he was one of the great nationa...
Chinese Magic Mirrors
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2020
For over a thousand years, a rare type of Chinese artifact has been baffling researchers. It’s a polished bronze mirror with a pattern cast ...
Burnley Embankment
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2020
Regarded as one of the “Seven Wonders of British Waterways”, the Burnley Embankment, locally known as “The Straight Mile”, is an impressive ...
