The Best Stories of 2023
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 26, 2023
As we bid farewell to 2023 and embark on the journey into a new year, it's the perfect time to look back on a year filled with incredibl...
Mobro 4000: The Infamous Garbage Barge
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2023
Americans generate an enormous amount of trash. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA, the average U.S. residen...
Glienicke Bridge: The Bridge Of Spies
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2023
In the Wannsee district of Berlin, Germany, there is a brief bridge spanning the Havel River, connecting the German capital to Potsdam. Hist...
Bottle Kicking in Hallaton
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2023
In the village of Hallaton in Leicestershire, England, a unique tradition unfolds every Easter Monday. The residents of Hallaton and the nea...
Bloody Island: Missouri’s Infamous Dueling Ground
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2023
In the late 1790s, a large sandy island emerged in the middle of the Mississippi River, across from St. Louis, Missouri, as a result of the ...
The Divided Church of Gmünd
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2023
Near the town of Gmünd in the Austrian state of Carinthia stands the Divided Church (Geteilte Kirche am Kreuzbichl), so called because it is...
Talking Gravestones of Amrum and Föhr
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2023
About 60 km north of Heligoland in the North Sea, off the western coast of Germany, lies the islands of Amrun and Föhr. Part of the North F...
Dejima: The Island That Was Once Japan’s Only Connection To The Outside World
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 7, 2023
For over two centuries, spanning from the 16th to the 19th centuries, Japan adopted a strict policy that prohibited foreigners, particularly...
The Logan Rock of Treen
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2023
On the edge of the cliffs overlooking the English Channel, on a headland one mile south of Treen, in Cornwall, England, is a famous rocking ...
The Mysterious Jerome of Sandy Cove
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2023
The story of a legless mystery man known as “Jerome” who turned up one day in 1863 in Sandy Cove is well-known in Nova Scotia. He was found ...
Tŷ Unnos: The One Night House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2023
Near the village of Llanycefn, in Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales, stands a small stone cottage. Legend has it that the cottage was built...
The Potsdam Giants
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 20, 2023
During his 27-year-reign, King Frederick William I of Prussia greatly expanded the size of the Prussian Army, turning it into the largest an...
Louis Le Prince, The Father of Cinematography
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2023
In any casual conversation regarding the history of film, the name of Louis Le Prince seldom arises. Yet, this legendary French artist and i...
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 ...
