The Warsaw Radio Mast
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2023
Some radio transmitters are built to great heights in order to reach audiences far and wide. In fact, nine out of ten structures taller than...
Rozabal Shrine: The Tomb of Jesus
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2023
In the Khanyar area of Kashmir, India, in downtown Srinagar, there is an old shrine—a modest stone building with a traditional Kashmiri mult...
How A Dog Saved Darwin From Bombing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2023
Throughout history, animals have held significant roles in wars and conflicts. Cavalry horses were deployed to charge the enemy, pigeons con...
Arthur John Priest: The Unsinkable Stoker
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2023
If there was anyone on board the Titanic that truly deserved the title “unsinkable” it was a coal stoker named Arthur John Priest, who surv...
Adrian Carton de Wiart: The Most Battle-Scarred Soldier
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2023
No one who has been touched by war has emerged from the experience unchanged. In the case of Adrian Carton de Wiart, who had participated in...
The Shipwrecks of Fylde Coast
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2023
The Fylde coast in western Lancashire have seen some of the foulest weather in England’s northwest coast. The area around Blackpool is in pa...
F60 Overburden Conveyor Bridge: The Horizontal Eiffel Tower
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2023
About 60 km north of Dresden, in Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, lies a steel behemoth. It’s a gigantic over...
Namibia’s Strange And Wonderful Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2023
Namibia's rich biodiversity boasts of an astonishing array of plant life that spans from the arid expanses of the Namib Desert to the lu...
Boynton’s Bicycle Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2023
For a brief two years during the 1890s, there was a rail service between Gravesend and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The railway was u...
Pakistan’s Century-Old Horse-Drawn Train
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2023
In 1903, a famous social activist named Ganga Ram established a unique mode of transport in his village in Faisalabad, Pakistan. It was a tr...
MS Hans Hedtoft: Denmark’s Titanic
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2023
Nearly five decades after the sinking of the Titanic , another tragedy struck in the oceans. A Danish liner was on her maiden voyage off the...
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...
