The Duck-less Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2021
There is a bronze statue of British railway engineer Sir Nigel Gresley towering over passengers as they pass through London King's Cross...
Women And Children Last: The Infamous Sinking of La Bourgogne
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2021
The sinking of the French ocean liner SS La Bourgogne on the morning of 4 July 1898 was one of the most disgraceful of disasters in mariti...
High Arctic Relocation: When The Canadian Govt Forcibly Relocated Inuit to Claim Sovereignty in The High Arctic
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2021
In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government uprooted seven Inuit families from their homes in Northern Quebec, and dropped them high in t...
Nazi Amphitheaters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2021
Near the summit of a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, stands an open-air theater called a...
The World’s Loudest Plane Was So Loud It Caused Seizures
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2021
The aviation industry’s transition from propellers to jet engines saw the emergence of a new kind of engine called the turboprop. A turbopro...
Istanbul’s Cast Iron Church
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2021
Although it looks like stone, the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church with its richly ornamented façade on the shores of the Golden Horn in Istanbu...
Sarah Jacob: The Girl Who Starved to Death to Prove Herself
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 21, 2021
There have been quite a few cases where people claimed to have survived without food. These people call themselves “breatharians” for they p...
Russia’s Hand-Tossed Satellites
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2021
On November 3, 1997, cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and Anatoly Solovyov were spacewalking outside the Mir space station to remove an old solar ...
Anatomical Theaters
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2021
Since ancient times, the primary way to teach and learn anatomy have been to dissect human cadavers. Generations of surgeons have learned an...
Elephant of The Bastille
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2021
Between 1814 and 1846, there stood a colossal plaster elephant in the heart of Paris, at the site of the former Bastille prison. For much of...
Why The Soviet Union Lied About Yuri Gagarin's Historic Space Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2021
Exactly sixty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome taking along cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the first ever...
The Chapati Movement of 1857
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2021
The year was 1857. A storm was brewing in British-occupied India. There was growing resentment among the Indians against the rule of the Eas...
King’s Holly: The 43,600 Year Old Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2021
Lomatia tasmanica, commonly known as King's lomatia or King’s Holly, is an unusual plant. It bears flowers, yet produces neither fruit n...
Zwentendorf, The Nuclear Power Plant That Was Never Turned On
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2021
The Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant, located on the bank of the Danube River, about 20 miles northwest of Vienna, is Austria’s only nuclear ...
How Rubber Ducks Are Helping Scientists Chart The Oceans
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 2, 2021
In early January 1992, the container ship Evergreen Ever Laurel departed Hong Kong for Washington. Among the millions of things that Ever L...
The Remote Swedish Town That Drives The Automobile Industry
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2021
Every car goes through a battery of tests before they are rolled out into the market. Some of these tests include driving in extreme conditi...
Hunley: The Submarine That Wouldn’t Come Up
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2021
On 17 February 1864, the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley attacked and sank a 1,240-ton United States Navy ship, the USS Housatonic , and e...
Copenhagen’s Potato Row
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2021
In the heart of Copenhagen, not far from the harbor, are a series of closely laid streets with houses smashed together like rows of potato p...
The Mercy Dogs of World War 1
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 26, 2021
Dogs have accompanied men to war since ancient times, as scouts, sentries, trackers and messengers. But the most unique role they ever playe...
DC-X: The Rocket That Beat SpaceX by 20 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2021
Twenty years before modern spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin began designing rockets that launch and land vertically, the DC...
