Can You Solve The Shugborough Code?
Anonymous
Mar 31, 2022
From the Caesar Shift of ancient times to a Nazi coding device called the Enigma Machine, the world before us left its mark in keys and code...
Scribonius Longus, The Roman Physician Who Used Electricity as a Treatment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2022
Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus ) was a 1st century AD Roman physician who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) an...
Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2022
The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...
The Mysterious Legacy of The Poe Toaster
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2022
The macabre attraction of Edgar Allen Poe and his works has reached far and wide over centuries. But the Poe Toaster is a testament to just ...
The Battle of The Eclipse
Anonymous
Mar 25, 2022
Picture this: two raging kings have been at war for five years now. Lives have been lost, battles have been fought, and in the current momen...
‘Meldeman Plan’: The First Siege of Vienna
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2022
One of the oldest topographical maps of Vienna is the so-called “Meldeman-Plan’’ published by the Austrian painter and printer Nikolaus Meld...
The Miraculous Survival of Phineas Gage
Anonymous
Mar 24, 2022
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Except in the case of Phineas Gage, who became a lot of things but strong after an accident that o...
Did an Ancient Persian Queen Suffer From Breast Cancer?
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2022
In Histories , written in the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus tells the story of Atossa, the queen of Persia, who was struck b...
What the Megaliths of Jharkhand Reveal About Tribal India
Anonymous
Mar 23, 2022
In 2016, a cluster of over 300 megaliths were discovered under a maze of shrubs and garbage near Ranchi. The tombstones of Yamuna Nagar had ...
Joice Heth: The Hoax That Launched P.T. Barnum as a Showman
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2022
Phineas Taylor Barnum, the “greatest showman” on earth was still making a modest living as the owner of a grocery store in 1835 when his pat...
The Whipping Tom of 1681
Anonymous
Mar 22, 2022
The streets of London have witnessed some of the strangest men come and go over the years. From commoners like Theodore Hook, who halted the...
The Mystery of The Campden Wonder
Anonymous
Mar 21, 2022
The year was 1660. In south west England’s Gloucestershire sat a small town called Chipping Campden—a single street rotting under soot and l...
How Dusko Popov Inspired James Bond
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2022
In Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov , author Larry Loftis calls Dusko Popov a showman. He's the stuff of movies,...
Henry Ford’s Soybean Car
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2022
You might blame Henry Ford and his hugely popular T-model for sparking our insatiable passion for cars and the environmental degradation it ...
The Lying Stones of Adam Beringer
Anonymous
Mar 15, 2022
Fossils prove the existence of life at its peak, but in Dr Adam Beringer’s case, they wrote nothing but demise. Almost 300 years ago, he dis...
Jenny: The Orangutan That Helped Darwin Evolve His Theory
Anonymous
Mar 14, 2022
If you visit the Darwin Archive at Cambridge University Library (DAR 191) today, you will find notes on orangutans recorded by Charles Darwi...
Treaty of Kadesh: The World’s First Peace Treaty
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2022
On the walls of the Temple of Karnak near Luxor, Egypt, and on the temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II in Thebes, are engravings that describe a g...
The Sculpted Rocks of Rothéneuf
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2022
In 1879 in a small town in the south-east of France called Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, a postman began the construction of a fantastic palace, w...
Ambergris: The Highly Sought-After ‘Whale Vomit’
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2022
The sea washes up all kinds of strange stuff , from carcasses of whales and squids to fossils and ancient shipwrecks. But nothing is as prec...
Thomas Midgley Jr.: The One-Man Environmental Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2022
The unnatural warming of the Earth’s atmosphere in the past century or two can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution when humans began...
