The Leicester Balloon Riot of 1864
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 13, 2023
During the latter part of the 18th century and most of the 19th century, there was a notable surge in public fascination with ballooning. Th...
The Sinking of U-boat 864
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 9, 2023
During World War II, German U-boats wrought havoc upon Allied supply lines and commercial shipping inflicting heavy losses on merchant convo...
Sadd el-Kafara: The Oldest Dam in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2023
About 40 km southeast of Cairo, close to the town of Helwan, lie the ruins of the Sadd-el-Kafara, a large embankment dam built approximately...
The Building That Gave Its Residents Leukemia
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2023
Building number 7 on Gvardeytsiv Kantemirovtsiv street (now known as Mariyi Pryimachenko Street) in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, was the most recent...
The Singapore Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2023
At the mouth of the Singapore River, at a promontory known variously as Rocky Point and Artillery Point, there once stood a massive boulder ...
A Piece of Sputnik in Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2023
In the early 1960s, before the Soviets sent Yuri Gagarin to space, they began their Vostok programme with a series of unmanned test flight...
Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2023
Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago ...
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...
