Ponte dei Trepponti: A Unique 5-Way Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2023
The Ponte dei Trepponti or Trepponti bridge is a rare five-way bridge located in Comacchio, Italy. Although the name “Trepponti”, originatin...
The Case of The Radioactive Toothpaste
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2023
In the late 1943, while the Manhattan project was underway, a team of spies were sent to Europe to gather information about how the Nazis we...
The World’s Oldest Optical Illusion
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2023
In the October 1892 issue of Fliegende Blätter , a German humor magazine, there appeared an image depicting an optical illusion. The image w...
Girolamo Segato’s Mysterious Petrified Mummies
Kaushik Patowary
May 9, 2023
For thousands of years, different cultures across continents have successfully preserved bodies of their ancestors. For the Egyptians, mummi...
Lennie Gwyther: A 9-year-old Who Journeyed Solo Across Australia
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2023
On February 3, 1932, nine-year-old Lennie Gwyther packed his bags and left for Sydney. He was going to attend the opening of the Sydney Harb...
John ‘Half-hanged’ Smith
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2023
A man can lose a life in the most silliest of mishaps, like tripping over his own foot and breaking his neck. Yet, some people have an uncan...
Sarah Baartman: The Black Woman Who Was Exploited For Her Big Booty
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2023
The story of Sarah Baartman is a story of abuse and objectification that has become a powerful symbol of colonial exploitation and racism, a...
How The Beast Of Gévaudan Terrorized 18th-Century France
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2023
For three years in the mid-1760s, inhabitants of Gévaudan in Southern France were terrorized by a mysterious beast. The creature preyed most...
Jimmy Doolittle And The First Blind Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2023
People assume that its easier to fly an airplane during the day because we can look out of the window and see where we are going, the same w...
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...
