Casa de las Conchas: The House of Shells
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2020
Casa de las Conchas, or the House of Shells, is a curious attraction in Salamanca, Spain. This stately mansion built between the late 15th a...
Huer's Hut And Pilchard Fishing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2020
Cornwall, in southwest England, once had a thriving fishing industry and at the heart of this industry was the pilchard, also known as sardi...
The Vespasianus Titus Tunnel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2020
Around 300 BC Seleucus I founded, on the current southeast coast of Turkey, the city of Seleucia Pieria. Located north of the mouth of the O...
How Medieval Bridges Were Built—An Animation
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2020
Building a bridge over water is a daunting task, and despite the many technological progresses, the basics have remain unchanged since ancie...
Fokker’s Synchronizing Gear And The Birth of Fighter Planes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2020
The first airplanes to join the First World War were not made for combat. They merely played the role of an observer, scouting enemy positio...
The Space Museum Inside a Church
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2020
About 80 km outside of Kyiv, in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, there is a large complex of museums dedicated to preser...
Aqueduct of Segovia: The Mortar-Less Miracle
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2020
The aqueduct of Segovia is a classic example of Roman water transport architecture—simple in design, yet magnificent to behold, and surprisi...
Writing Sheds of Famous Writers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2020
Writers usually have their favorite writing spots, a small, secluded space, sparsely furnished, where creativity flows unimpeded. The chosen...
Glacier Birds
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2020
High in the Andes among frozen glaciers, where virtually nothing survives, a small and plump, blue-gray feathered bird lays eggs and raises ...
The Spectacle of Death at The Paris Morgue
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2020
Throughout the 19th century, the Paris morgue attracted thousand of visitors every day. Eager tourists consumed by a morbid fascination with...
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...
