The Tragic Death of Sophie Blanchard, The First Woman Balloon Pilot
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2023
Ever since Sophie Blanchard stepped into the basket with her husband, the famous balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard, she knew she belonged to ...
Martin van Butchell: The Dentist Who Put His Dead Wife on Display
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2023
Quackery in dentistry has existed as far back as the earliest days when sufferers from dental problems sought treatment at the hands of some...
Why The Australian Jewel Beetle Love Beer Bottles
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2023
The Australian jewel beetle (Julodimorpha bakewelli ) is a large golden-colored beetle species that is found all over South Australia in ari...
Philip Ashton: The Castaway
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2023
Just three years after the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe , a youngster from Massachusetts suffered a fate similar to the pro...
1764 Woldegk Tornado: The Strongest in History
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2023
On June 29, 1764, almost the entire town of Woldegk was in church attending a day of repentance and prayer. Also known as Buß- und Bettag, i...
Why Phyllis Rode Aristotle Around Like a Horse
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2023
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is a bronze aquamanile, or water jug, dating from the late 14th or early 15th century. ...
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...
