William Rankin: The Man Who Fell Through a Thundercloud
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2023
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin gently pulled back the stick of his F-8 Crusader to put the single-engine supersonic fighter jet on ...
Porphyrios, The Whale That Spread Terror Among Byzantine Sailors Of The 6th Century
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2023
In his novel Moby Dick , Herman Melville recounts numerous cases of cetaceans turning against whalers who were hunting them, attacking their...
Who Was The Earliest Born Person To Be Photographed?
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 26, 2023
If you've had the chance to explore your old family photo albums, you may have stumbled upon pictures of your ancestors who were born du...
The Sibling Rivalry That Gave Birth to Adidas and Puma
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2023
Straddling the river of Aurach in the German state of Bavaria lies the small town of Herzogenaurach. It was here in the late 1940s, the Dass...
The Red Ball Express
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2023
During World War II, one of the most significant logistical challenges faced by the Allied forces during their invasion of Europe was ensuri...
Nedelin Catastrophe: The Worst Space-Related Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2023
The Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan is one of the busiest and the most important spaceport on earth with over a thousand satellit...
Optography: Preserving a Dead Person’s Last Sight
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2023
In 1924, Germany was rocked by a sensational case of multiple homicide. Fritz Heinrich Angerstein, a resident of Limberg, Germany, had bruta...
Glacier Girl: The P-38F Lightning That Was Rescued From Beneath The Ice
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2023
During the Second World War, the United States initiated a massive movement of aircrafts and ground troops across the Atlantic and into the ...
Botafumeiro: The Most Famous Thurible in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2023
In the Santiago de Compostela Archcathedral Basilica in Galicia, Spain, hangs a very special thurible. It is so special that it has a name o...
Ennigaldi-Nanna: The World’s First Museum Curator Was a Woman
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2023
In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...
Peter Stumpp: The Werewolf of Bedburg
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2023
In The Knave of Harts , a collection of satirical poems penned by Samuel Rowlands, the English poet makes an allusion to a certain German ca...
Karolina Olsson: The Woman Who Allegedly Slept for 32 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2023
In the small island of Oknö near Mönsterås, Sweden, a young girl named Karolina Olsson went to bed complaining of a toothache. She wouldn’t ...
Falowiec: The Wave Building of Gdańsk
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2023
In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a series of peculiarly shaped apartment blocks were constructed in the Polish city of Gdańsk. They we...
Purton Hulks: The Ship Graveyard
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2023
One of the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain was created not by accident, but by the deliberate sinking of tens of old trawler and ...
The Strange Burial Customs of Trunyan Village
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2023
On the eastern shore of Lake Batur, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, lies the village of Trunyan—home to the culturally isolated Bali Aga p...
Sad Hill Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 28, 2023
About 30 kilometers southeast of Burgos, a charming city in the Castilla y León region of northern Spain, rests a rather expansive cemetery....
PLTD Apung 1: The Tsunami Ship Memorial
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2023
Less than a kilometer from the Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, stands another monument that conveys the true power of nature that w...
The Portuguese Bank Note Scandal of 1925
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2023
Throughout the annals of history there have been individuals who have sought to deceive others by producing counterfeit versions of precious...
Uraniborg: An Observatory Without a Telescope
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2023
Before the invention of the telescope, astronomers relied on a variety of tools and techniques to observe and study the celestial objects an...
That Time When Hartlepool Hanged a Monkey
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2023
On the coast of northeast England, lies the town of Hartlepool, and from this large town in County Durham comes a humorous legend about a mo...
