The Hairy Secret Behind Indian Temples
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2017
Where do hairs for fashion wigs and hair extensions come from? The answer is: everywhere, but the majority of them come from China and India...
Lebanon’s Thinnest Building Was Built Out of Spite
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2017
Locals call the building “the Grudge” and rightly so. This extremely narrow building standing on a mere 120-square-meter piece of land in Be...
The International Church of Cannabis
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2017
The psychedelic interior of this 113-year-old converted Lutheran church in Denver’s Washington Park neighborhood is appropriate, for it’s th...
The Potteries of Staffordshire
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 16, 2017
The art of pottery making has been known since ancient times. However, the first true porcelain was made in China only during the Han Dynast...
The Forgotten Communist-Era Monuments of Bulgaria
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2017
From the end of the Second World War until the fall of communism in 1990, Bulgaria was a communist state ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Pa...
The Diving Horses of Atlantic City
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 13, 2017
For nearly half a century, Atlantic City, in New Jersey, United States, was home to an attraction almost too fantastical to believe—an appar...
The Double-Barreled Cannon of Athens
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 11, 2017
In front of the City Hall of Athens, in Georgia, United States, stands an unusual cannon from the American Civil War. It’s a double-barreled...
The Art of Mediaeval Book Repairing
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2017
In the early Middle Ages, books were made from animal hides known as parchment, rather than from paper. Preparing the parchment was a delica...
Michelangelo’s Hidden Drawings at Medici Chapels
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2017
In a concealed room beneath the New Sacristy of the San Lorenzo Basilica in Florence, Italy, the great Italian sculptor and architect Michel...
Lyon, The City of Murals
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 8, 2017
For the last four decades a group of muralists in the French city of Lyon has been transforming the city into a massive outdoor art gallery....
