Malm Whale: The World’s Only Taxidermied Whale
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2023
Marine animals such as whales and dolphins, amphibians such as frogs and salamanders, and fish are difficult to taxidermy because their skin...
The Red Dog of Pilbara
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2023
Throughout the 1970s, an Australian Kelpie nicknamed Red Dog was frequently found roaming across the vast Pilbara region in Western Australi...
5 Historical Figures Who Were Assassinated in The Lavatory
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2023
When a person is on the toilet, moving bowels, they are in a particularly vulnerable position. They are exposing parts of their body that ar...
Marching Soldiers And Collapsing Bridges
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2023
All suspension bridges are prone to vibration and swaying caused by moving traffic and wind. These vibration are not a problem as long as th...
Cosmati Pavement at Westminster Abbey
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2023
In May 2023, following the coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla, at Westminster Abbey, the church’s historic Cosmat...
Eugène Vidocq: A Criminal Who Became The World’s First Modern Detective
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2023
It is paradoxical that a former delinquent with a colorful life ends up being the creator and director of the French police; even more so if...
Samuel Terry: The Convict Who Made it Big in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2023
In June 1801, Samuel Terry stepped off Earl Cornwallis in chains. He had come to Sydney to serve out his sentence at the convict’s colony. ...
James Holman, The Blind Traveler
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2023
James Holman was a remarkable figure in the history of travel and exploration. Born in Exeter, England, in 1786, Holman lost his sight in hi...
6 Spectacular Survivors of Free Fall
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2023
It is said that a fall from a height of only six feet can be deadly with broken bones, head injuries, spinal cord injuries and even death. B...
The Oldest Functioning Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2023
The Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1, or LCS-1, is a large, hollow, aluminum sphere with a precisely defined cross-section that has been on Eart...
Masabumi Hosono: The Disgraced Titanic Survivor
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2023
In 1997, on the eve of the release of James Cameroon’s blockbuster movie Titanic , a curious story from Japan came to light. It was about Ma...
The Telescope That Got Shot
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2023
In the early 1960s, as NASA geared up towards space exploration, engineers and astronomers at the federal organization felt the need for a l...
The 1956 Olympic Flame Hoax
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2023
The 1956 Summer Olympics was held in Australia. As was the custom, the Olympic flame was lighted in Olympia, months before the games started...
Dorothy Lawrence: The Woman Who Posed as a Soldier to be a War Correspondent
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2023
The First World War was reported from an almost exclusively male perspective, because few female war correspondents were given access to the...
The Ice Palace of Anna Ioannovna
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2023
The winter of 1739-40 was incredibly harsh all over Europe and especially brutal in Russia. Temperatures plummeted to forty degrees below ze...
Limes Arabicus, The Chain of Fortifications That Protected The Roman Territory From Desert Tribes
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2023
When we talk about "limes", we usually think of the limits of the Roman Empire in northern Europe, in Germania or Britain. But in ...
The Fishman of Liérganes
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 22, 2023
In the small town of Liérganes, in Cantabria, northern Spain, a legend has been around since the late 17th century about a young man who dro...
Edward Dando: The Celebrated Oyster Eater
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2023
There was time in 1820s London when the name of Edward Dando sent panic through the hearts of tavern and oyster shop owners. This young man,...
The 1967 Experiment That Proved Anyone Can Design a Nuclear Weapon
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2023
On 16 October 1964, China detonated a 22-kiloton nuclear weapon device at the Lop Nur test site, becoming the fifth nuclear power state in t...
George Spencer Millet: Death by Kisses
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
George Spencer Millet must be rolling in his grave for his family chose to include this nugget of information in his gravestone: “Lost life ...
