Danube Sinkhole: Where a River Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2023
The European river system is complex and extensive. Two of its main rivers, the Rhine and the Danube, despite not having their sources relat...
Escape From Colditz Castle
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2023
On a rocky outcrop high above the Mulde River in the small town of Colditz in Saxony, Germany, sits the massive Colditz Castle. Once the for...
St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line: The World’s First Airline
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2023
Barely a decade after the pioneering flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, the world’s first scheduled passenger airline service bega...
Daniel Sickles's Leg
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2023
One of the most visited exhibits at Washington's National Museum of Health and Medicine is the shattered leg bones of an American Civil ...
The Case of The Exploding Teeth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2023
In the January 1861 issue of The Dental Cosmos , the first major journal of American dentistry, a Pennsylvania dentist named WH Atkinson doc...
Joseph Samuel: The Man Who Couldn’t be Hanged
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2023
Joseph Samuel was a petty criminal who broke into homes and stole stuff. There is nothing remarkable about his crimes, or about his life. Ho...
Clarence Madison Dally: The First Victim of Radiation
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2023
In December 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen submitted to Würzburg's Physical-Medical Society journal a preliminary report where ...
The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere That Was Buried For 50 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2023
The opening of a time capsule is supposed to be an exciting and nostalgic event that gives future generations a chance to peek into the past...
The Get Out And Push Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2023
For a very short five years, Wilmington, Los Angeles, was connected to the Willmore area of Long Beach by a street railway, initially pulled...
Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, The Divorce Temple
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2023
For over six hundred years, the Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, had served as a refugee for wome...
The Himalayan Towers of China
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2023
In the Western Sichuan province, between central China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, there exist hundreds of mysterious stone towers, s...
The Tay Whale
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2023
The city of Dundee on the Firth of Tay, on the east coast of Scotland, was a major whaling port in the 19th century. But few locals had actu...
Kallima Inachus: The Butterfly That Pretends to be a Dead Leaf
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2023
A walk through the forests and rainforests of Southeast Asia may bring us a curious surprise. Perhaps at a certain moment while walking we n...
James Rumsey’s Steamboat
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2023
In 1787, American engineer James Rumsey demonstrated before a crowd of local notables a peculiar boat on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown ...
Sable Island: The Graveyard of The North Atlantic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 24, 2023
About 300 km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lies a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar, whose existence has been a bane on shipping for centuries...
Princess May’s Dramatic Grounding
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2023
In August 1910, a Canadian steamship named Princess May ran aground near Sentinel Island, off the coast of Alaska, in the most spectacular ...
Curfew Bell
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2023
Nearly every medieval house in Europe used to have an open hearth where a fire was kept going at all times to keep the occupants warm, and a...
Jacques Charles And The First Hydrogen Balloon
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2023
On June 4, 1783, the Montgolfier brothers gave the first public demonstration of a hot-air balloon in southern France. The balloon, made of ...
The White Woman of Gippsland
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2023
For the past 180 years a legend have persisted in Gippsland, in southeastern Victoria, Australia, about a shipwrecked white woman who was al...
James Bartley: The Sailor Who Got Swallowed by a Whale And Survived
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2023
In 1891, a sensational story appeared in the St. Louis Globe Democrat of Saint Louis, Missouri. According to the news report, a young sail...
