The Golden Fire Hydrant of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2016
After a massive earthquake rocked the city of San Francisco on April 18, 1906, fires erupted all around the city from ruptured gas lines, ov...
The Island Where Donkeys Wear Pyjamas
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2016
The Island of Rhea, or Île-de-Ré in French, off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, is a popular summer destination known for its gen...
The Sewer Gas Destructor Lamps of England
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In Victorian England, gas build-up in underground sewers was often a problem for the city dwellers. Old sewers were not always laid on suffi...
The ‘Whiskey War’ of Hans Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2016
In the remote north of the Atlantic Ocean, right on the edge of the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean, lies a tiny speck of an island. Nam...
The Plague Village Of Eyam And Its Great Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2016
The Great Plague of London affected many places across England, but one small village in Derbyshire called Eyam, will always be remembered f...
World War 2 Wrecks of Solomon Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2016
In the remote South Pacific, east of Papua New Guinea, and not far from Australia, lies a string of about nine hundred islands that make up ...
Pozzo di S. Patrizio
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
Pozzo di S. Patrizio, or the St. Patrick's Well, is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy, built between 1527 and 1537 at th...
The Ghosts of St. George’s Church in Lekova
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
For nearly fifty years, St. George’s Church in the village of Lukova, in Czech Republic, lay abandoned. The last congregation held in this 1...
The Birth Of An Ocean: The Afar Rift of Ethiopia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
In the remote Afar depression in northern Ethiopia, the African Continent is slowly splitting apart and a new ocean is forming. Normally geo...
The Remarkable Story of St Kilda’s Residents
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2016
The remote archipelago of St Kilda, off the west coast of the Scottish mainland, is truly an isolated place. Located some 64 km west of the ...
