The Ruins of Sutro Baths
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2022
Within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, just north of Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, you can still find the ruins of what was once ...
In The Gambia, Votes Are Cast With Marbles
Anonymous
Apr 15, 2022
Along the smiling coast of Africa, nature abounds and all sorts of sights, smells and sounds reveal the beauty of harmonious living. One of ...
The Ripple Rock Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2022
Between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, lies a narrow body of water called Seymour Narrows, which is part of...
The Oldest Name in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2022
Humans have been calling each other by names probably for hundreds of thousands of years ever since the first human beings evolved from Homo...
Antarctic Oases
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2022
Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places in this earth, with all-year-round freezing temperatures, violent katabatic winds and ice ...
The Abandoned Village of Kuldhara
Anonymous
Apr 11, 2022
Some 30 kilometres from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, a dusty track meanders towards the abandoned town of Kuldhara. Deserted land of scanty vegetat...
How The Soviet Union Tried to Abolish Weekends
Anonymous
Apr 8, 2022
About a hundred years ago in August 1929, the Soviet Union moved to alter the most fundamental tool of daily functioning: the calendar. An i...
The Mysterious Phaistos Disc
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2022
The Phaistos Disc is an enigmatic disk of fired clay discovered in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dati...
Razia Sultan: Delhi’s First And Only Female Emperor
Anonymous
Apr 7, 2022
Tales of female courage and prudence, power and fortitude run long in the pages of Mughal history. Women who were daughters, who were begums...
The Corpse of Elmer McCurdy
Anonymous
Apr 6, 2022
What happens to our bodies when we die? Some are buried with grandeur in oakwood caskets, some cremated on holy pyres of amber flames. But t...
The Bat Libraries of Portugal
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2022
Bibliophiles aren’t the only ones that love hanging out in the library. Given the chance bats too would love to roost there and eat the bugs...
The 1866 Transatlantic Communications Cable
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 5, 2022
Much of today’s lightning speed communication that happens between computer terminals or between mobile phones located in different continen...
The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2022
Near the northern tip of Vermilion Bay in the US state of Louisiana, lies a small saltwater lake called Peigneur. Although pretty modest by ...
The Pacific Island Where Prince Philip is God
Anonymous
Apr 4, 2022
At the other end of the sea from where Queen Elizabeth sits on her throne in England, photos of her husband holding a unique club rest safel...
The Great Conservatory of Chatsworth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2022
Before Joseph Paxton built the magnificent edifice of glass and iron, the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he built an enorm...
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...
