A Blast From The Past: Episode 31
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2016
This will be the last post for 2016. Happy New Year to everyone. See you next year. From the archives of Amusing Planet. Kiribati, The Tru...
Jet d'Eau: The Lake Geneva Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2016
Since 1891, a gigantic jet of water has been Geneva’s most important landmark. This narrow column of water shooting straight up to a stagger...
The Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2016
Lake Taal on the island of Luzon, in the northern end of the Philippines archipelago, holds a special distinction. It’s one of only two lake...
The Electronic Ears That Listen to Secret Nuclear Tests
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2016
Twenty years ago, the world's first Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) of 1996, that prohibits nations from conducting any kin...
The Giant Concrete Arrows Across The US
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2016
In the early 1900s, the fastest way to deliver mail was by rail, but there was a machine that could travel faster than trains, and that was,...
Witley Park’s Underwater Ballroom
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 28, 2016
Between Godalming and Haslemere, in Surrey, near the English village of Witley, once stood one of the most lavish private residences in the ...
Operation Christmas Drop
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
For the last sixty four years the US army has been playing Santa Claus to some 20,000 people inhabiting dozens of tiny Micronesian islands s...
Gävle Goat: The Christmas Goat That Vandals Can’t Keep Their Hands Off
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2016
Every year for Advent, about a month before Christmas, the town of Gavle, in Sweden, builds a giant Christmas goat out of straw. And every y...
Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished Mosques
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
In the late 1990s, amidst rising poverty and with four million residents on the verge of famine, the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein deci...
The Pout Of A Red-Lipped Batfish
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 22, 2016
Named after Charles Darwin, Ogcocephalus darwini, or the red-lipped batfish, is an unusual looking fish. It is a type of anglerfish, the sa...
