The Giant of Castelnau
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2022
Legends of giants permeate folklore of cultures around the world. The ancient Greeks had Gigantes who were born of Gaia (Earth) when blood f...
Ellen Sadler: The Sleeping Girl of Turville
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2022
The small village of Turville in Buckinghamshire, about 7 miles north of Henley-on-Thames and 35 miles west of London, is a favorite destina...
The Longest Sightlines on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 10, 2022
Last year around April, residents in the state of Punjab in northern India were astonished to see the Himalayas from the rooftop of their h...
William Huskisson, Railway's First Victim
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2022
William Huskisson was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament. A leading advocate of free trade, Huskisson had been a highl...
Eustace The Monk Who Became a Pirate And Inspired The Figure of Robin Hood
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2022
Every good comic book fan will have read some of the adventures of Corto Maltés and if so, will remember that one of the characters that the...
Frank Hayes: The Only Dead Man in History to Win a Race
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2022
Many sports pushes the human body to the limit, and this exertion can prove fatal for some. Frank Hayes was one such casualty, and while the...
21 Grams: The Weight of The Soul
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2022
What is a soul? Can it be touched? Does it have mass? These questions tormented Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts...
The London Beer Flood of 1814
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2021
At the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, in the London Borough of Camden, where now stands the Dominion Theatre, there stood...
Belyana: Russia’s Giant Wooden Boats
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2021
The Belyana were some of the largest wooden ships ever built. Yet, they were only meant for a single journey. They were built to transport...
Wellington’s Private Cable Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2021
The iconic Wellington Cable Car between Lambton Quay and Kelburn is one of Wellington’s most beloved landmarks, but it is not the only funic...
Bring Home The Bacon at The Dunmow Flitch Trials
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 20, 2021
Married couples who can prove their undying love for each other can take home half a pig in a tradition that dates back to at least the 12th...
Belka and Strelka: Soviet Space Dogs
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2021
In August 1960, two dogs named Belka and Strelka completed went to space aboard a Soviet spacecraft, stayed for a full day orbiting, and ret...
The Bronze Horseman And The Thunder Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2021
At the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, stands a magnificent equestrian statue of the founder of St Petersburg, Peter the Great. K...
Woodmere Avenue: Britain’s Infamous Width Restriction Keeps Wrecking Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2021
A clearance of seven feet should be wide enough for most vehicles to pass through, but apparently, not for some. As these videos reveal, man...
The Burning of Tuileries Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2021
Directly in front of the Louvre, between the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile in Paris, where there is n...
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot And The World’s First Automobile
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2021
The world’s first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, in other words, the world’s first automobile, was built by the largely unknown French i...
The Florescence of Lignum Nephriticum
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2021
The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III once received a gift from Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit scholar, sometime in the middle of the 17...
The Straw Hat Riot of 1922
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2021
What’s the worst that could happen from wrong fashion choices? A little bit of teasing and ridicule from your friends, sure. But rarely will...
King Henry VIII’s Horned Helmet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2021
The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds hold in their possession a peculiar helmet, believed to have belonged to the infamous English King Henry...
Venera 7, The First Craft to Make Controlled Landing on Another Planet And Send Data From its Surface
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2021
By 1961 the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union had been going on for six years. The Soviets had the upper hand, havin...
