The Grave of Harry Potter in Ramle, Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
In the British Commonwealth war cemetery in Ramle, Israel, is a grave that has been receiving quite a lot of footfall from tourists in the p...
Operation Sandblast: The First Submarine Circumnavigation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 14, 2023
In the early 16th century, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan embarked on a historic expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific, ...
William And Mary Bryant’s Heroic Escape From Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2023
The penal colonies that the British established in Australia during the 18th and the 19th centuries were nearly impossible to escape from. S...
Jack Ketch’s Botched Executions
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 8, 2023
The job of an executioner in medieval England was detestable. Nobody invited them to their homes. They were not allowed to go to the church,...
Douglas Crofut: Suicide by Radiation
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2023
On January 22, 1981, a 38-year-old industrial radiographer named Douglas Crofut was admitted to a hospital in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the United...
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...
