Claude Ruggieri: Master of Pyrotechnic Brilliance
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2024
Fireworks have accompanied celebrations and festivities for at least a thousand years. They were first used in China during the Song dynasty...
Karl von Drais And The Laufmaschine
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2024
In April 1815, Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, erupted with a violence never seen before in recorded histor...
Watch 1505: The World's First Watch
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2024
In 1987, during a school trip to London, a watchmaker apprentice stumbled upon a rare find at an antique flea market. Concealed within a box...
Dhunge Dhara: Nepal’s 1,600-Year-Old Drinking Water Fountains
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2024
The tiny country of Nepal, nestled between India and Tibet, boasts of a very robust drinking water supply system that dates back to at least...
The Osoaviakhim-1 Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2024
Between 1930 and 1932, Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard made more than two dozen trips to the upper atmosphere using a balloon of his design...
Horizontal Collaboration: Sleeping With The Enemy
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2024
The historic D-Day landing by Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of a crucial phase in World War...
John Stringfellow And The World's First Powered Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2024
In 1842, British engineers William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow received a patent for a flying machine. Unlike previous attempts made...
Antimony Pill: The Everlasting Pill
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2024
Antimony—the soft, lustrous gray metal—has many industrial uses such as in the preparation of flame-retarding compounds and in the manufactu...
Nerodimka River Bifurcation
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2024
The Nerodimka river in the Nerodime region of Kosovo is the only river in Europe that drains into two different seas, a phenomenon known as ...
The Killer Whales of Eden
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2024
The Thaua people, who reside around Twofold Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, share a special bond with killer whales or...
Xerxes Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2024
The Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece, that juts into the Aegean Sea for some 50 kilometers, was once bisected by a canal a hundred fee...
Olivier Levasseur’s Lost Treasure
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2024
On the 7th of July 1730, the notorious French pirate, Olivier Levasseur, faced his final moments on the scaffold. His crimes, which had inst...
Da Shuhua: Fireworks of Molten Iron
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2024
For five centuries, the inhabitants of Nuanquan village in Yu County, in the northwestern reaches of Hebei province, China, have marked the ...
Casimir Zeglen: The Priest Who Invented The Bulletproof Vest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2024
On October 28, 1893, the tranquility of Chicago was shattered with the assassination of its mayor, Carter Harrison, who was shot on the door...
The Ransom Room
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2024
In the northern highlands of Peru lies the historic city of Cajamarca, where the great Inca empire met its demise. It was on this soil that ...
Ashkelon Dog Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2024
About 50 km south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, near the ancient city of Ashkelon, archaeologists from the 1985 Leon Levi Expedit...
Bedford Level Experiment: The 19th Century Experiment That Laid The Foundation of The Flat Earth Society
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2024
In 1838, English writer and socialist, Samuel Rowbotham, set out to disprove what the ancient Greeks as well as modern scientists had long e...
Bob The Railway Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2024
In the heart of South Australia's railway history, a charming and loyal canine companion left an indelible paw print on the tracks – Bob...
The Braamfontein Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2024
The city of Johannesburg in South Africa was founded on gold after the precious metal was discovered on the Witwatersrand by Jan Gerrit Bant...
Ernest Bazin: The Ship That Rolled on Wheels
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2024
Between 1892 and 1893, French inventor Ernest Bazin filed patent for an unusual ship design. Instead of gliding through water, which had hit...
