GuaÃra Falls: A Natural Wonder Flooded By An Artificial Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2014
About 200 kilometers north of the spectacular Iguazu Falls, along the border between Brazil and Paraguay, was another natural wonder even mo...
London’s New Folding Bridge Opens and Closes Like a Fan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT have designed and completed a new moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that ...
Jordan Mang-osan Solar Pyrography Drawings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Magnifying glasses are fascinating, even more, if you are a kid. I remember holding them in the sun burning holes on newspapers or trying to...
Christopher McCandless' Abandoned "Magic Bus"
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2014
Those who have read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild or watched the 2007 Sean Penn’s movie by the same name, should be able to recolle...
Photographer Captures Sprite Lightning Over Italy
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
Up in the atmosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds or cumulonimbus, sometimes mysterious electrical discharges occur known as sprites. The...
Yom Kippur, The Day When Israel Goes Car Free
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
For twenty-four hours each year, all cars goes off the road all over Israel in celebration of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement - t...
The Chandelier at Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
A magnificent chandelier hangs under the dome of the main entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's largest muse...
The Sand Covered Church of Skagen
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2014
About 2 km southwest of the town center of Skagen, in Denmark, is a brick church half buried in sand. Known as Old Skagen Church or The Buri...
The Crooked House of Windsor
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...
Historian Discovers 800 Year Old Doodles in Old Books
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. Historian Erik Kwakkel discovered this simple truth wh...
