The Great Meteor Procession of 1913
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2022
On the night of February 9, 1913, inhabitants of a large portion of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada witnessed a meteo...
The Pyramid of Cestius
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2022
Although we associate pyramids with Ancient Egypt, these four-sided structures with a tapering top are found all over the world, built by ma...
Kīpuka: A Different Kind of Volcanic Island
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2022
Sometimes when a volcano erupts and the subsequent lava flows engulf the mountain slope and the surrounding terrain, some pieces of the land...
Acta Diurna: The First Roman Newspaper
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2022
According to Cicero, from the beginning of Roman history the Pontifex Maximus compiled on a white table the most important events that had ...
How to Color The World
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2022
In addition to classifying thousands of animals and plants, early naturalists faced an enormous challenge: accurately describing their color...
Weighing The Mayor of High Wycombe
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2022
Every year at the Annual Meeting of the Charter Trustees of the town of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England, a new mayor is elected. T...
The 477-Mile Lightning Bolt
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2022
How far can a lightning bolt travel? Awfully far, as revealed by the World Meteorological Organization recently. In a press release publi...
Inflated Bullock Skin Boats
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2022
In the early 1900s, American school teacher, traveler, and photographer, James Ricalton, went to India and traveled extensively throughout t...
How a Finnish Polka Song Defeated The Mighty Red Army
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2022
Three months after Hitler invaded Poland triggering a series of nasty and costly wars across the world, the Soviet Union took the opportunit...
Operation Epsilon: When Allied Forces Locked Ten German Scientists Together in a House
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 1, 2022
Near the end of World War 2, the Allied forces arrested ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear ...
The Nazi Gold of Merkers Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2022
When the advancing Third Army of the United States marched into the captured German town of Merkers-Kieselbach towards the end of World War ...
Ancient Board Games
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2022
Playing games is a great way to socialize with friends and pass time in an enjoyable way. Humans recognized this a long time ago before ther...
Juliane Koepcke: The Girl Who Fell From an Airplane And Survived The Rainforest
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2022
Juliane Koepcke was seventeen and desperate to get home. She had just graduated from high school in Lima, and was returning to her home in t...
The Kopp–Etchells Effect
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2022
When American war correspondent and photographer Michael Yon went accompanying US soldiers to Afghanistan in 2009, and began photographing t...
The Witches of Paisley
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2022
Four years after the events in Salem in Massachusetts, the United States, that saw the execution of nineteen innocent victims charged with w...
Frantisek Kotzwara: Death by Erotic Asphyxiation
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2022
Frantisek Kotzwara was an accomplished Czech composer and a talented performer of the violin, double bass, piano, cello, flute and other str...
How Sputnik Forced American Kids to Learn ‘New Math’
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2022
The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 sent the Americans into panic. Lawmakers and educators became worried that the United Stat...
The Ancient Egyptian Obelisks of Rome
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2022
When the Romans were not busy moving earth to build colossal amphitheaters and aqueducts, they were busy moving obelisks. The city of Rome h...
The Lion of Gripsholm Castle
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2022
There is much more to taxidermy then stuffing straw into the hide of a dead animal and sewing it up. It requires the taxidermist to possess ...
The Salish Wool Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2022
When Spanish explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1744-1794) was exploring the Salish Sea and its coasts in 1791, he was astonishe...
