The Tomb of Bibi Jawindi
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2022
The ancient city of Uch, founded by Alexander the Great, in Pakistan's Punjab province, is home to several funerary monuments and shrine...
Roman Dodecahedron: History’s Mystery
Anonymous
May 13, 2022
It is safe to say that there are secrets to the ancient Roman civilization that even a lifetime of scrutiny will not reveal to us. Yet histo...
The Mysteries of Nidhivan
Anonymous
May 13, 2022
Every year millions set foot on Vrindavan with one motive: to witness Krishna’s raasleela . This dance of coquetry has riddled the pages of ...
Natural Gas Extraction by Nuclear Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2022
In the late 1950s, the United States of America launched a new kind of nuclear program called Project Plowshare aimed at finding ways to bet...
Vicuña: The World's Most Expensive Wool Comes From a Llama
Anonymous
May 11, 2022
Deep within the Andes of Peru gallops an animal that’s treasured across the world. It belongs to the family of Llamas but is called a Vicuña...
A Thunderstorm Called Hector
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2022
Nearly every afternoon, from September to March, a thunderstorm develops over the Tiwi Islands in Northern Australia. It happens so regularl...
Bera, The Indian Village Where Man and Leopards Live Together
Anonymous
May 10, 2022
Along the sun-soaked Aravallis of Rajasthan thrives the leopard country of India. In and around Bera, a small village in Pali district, maje...
Did Abbas Ibn Firnas Make History’s First Flight?
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2022
Just outside Baghdad International Airport there is a statue of a man wearing a turban with feathered wings strapped over his arms, about to...
1875: When Locusts Ruled Over America
Anonymous
May 9, 2022
A species disappears from our planet about every 30 minutes. From climate crises to man’s carelessness, there are endless factors that drive...
Franz Halder: The Only German to be Decorated by Both Hitler and Kennedy
Anonymous
May 6, 2022
During the Third Riech, Hitler fortified his leadership atop bastions of war, invasion and politics. One of them though dared to traipse acr...
The Peculiar Locks of Dindigul
Anonymous
May 5, 2022
In India’s Tamil Nadu, some 420km south of Chennai, sits Dindigul. In this city of over two million people, families have slept without a wo...
The Neanderthals of Gorham’s Cave
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2022
Long before modern humans walked the earth, there lived in Europe another species off humans—the Neanderthals. It’s unclear exactly when Nea...
America’s Ugly ‘Ugly Laws’
Anonymous
May 4, 2022
In the 1880s, you could be fined for being ugly in public. Ordinances across the United States disallowed anyone who was “diseased, maimed, ...
Why The Soviet Union Advertised Products That Didn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2022
The purpose of commercials is to advertise products and drive sales, but in Soviet Russia under communism they served an altogether differen...
Ne Win: A Story of Power, Tyranny and Dolphin Blood
Anonymous
May 3, 2022
Once upon a time, there was a man who bathed in dolphin blood. He believed it would keep him young and healthy while his Stalin-inspired reg...
The Fish That Swims Upside Down
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2022
Fishes are great swimmers, and this ability comes not from practice but from anatomy. Fishes have a slender body which they flex back and fo...
How a German Air Raid in Bari Helped Discover a Cure For Cancer
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2022
On December 2, 1943, the Germans launched a surprise attack on a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking more than 20 Allied merchant ships ...
Uncombable Hair Syndrome
Anonymous
Apr 27, 2022
In a world of 7.87 billion people, there are only about a 100 cases of Uncombable Hair Syndrome (UHS). It is commonly visible in children of...
Rohonc Codex
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2022
The Rohonc Codex is a 448-page illustrated manuscript book written by an unknown author in an unknown language that has baffled scholars and...
Kugelpanzer: The Mysterious Nazi Ball Tank
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2022
When the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria in 1945 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the Red Army recovered a strange vehicle from the pos...
