The 4-Ton Steel Ball That Produces Artificial Earthquakes
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2018
In the wooded hillside of Hainberg, near Göttingen, Germany, stands an old seismological station. The Wiechert Earthquake Station was built ...
The Good Hitlers of Circleville
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2018
The city of Circleville, situated thirty miles to the south of Ohio’s largest city, Columbus, has a few things to boast. The Circleville Pum...
Rolligon: The Vehicle That Makes Running Over Yourself Fun
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2018
The following image appeared on the December 1957 issue of “Mechanix Illustrated”. It shows a woman smiling while being run over by a mammot...
The World’s Loneliest Tree, And The Clues it Holds to a New Epoch
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2018
In the remote Campbell Island, situated more than 600 km south of New Zealand’s mainland, grows a solitary Sitka spruce that has gained dist...
Wyld's Great Globe
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2018
The famous British cartographer and former Member of Parliament, James Wyld, had a brilliant plan to promote his mapmaking business. The Gre...
The Chapel of Prosthetics, New Orleans's St Roch Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2018
Beyond the tombstones, at the back of St. Roch cemetery in the US city of New Orleans, Louisiana, lies the shrine of St. Roch, dedicated to ...
The Ruins of St. Paul's Church, Macau
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2018
The city of Macau in Southern China might be best known for its casinos and luxury hotels, but its most treasured icon is actually a church,...
Wojtek: The Bear That Drank Beer And Went to War
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2018
Archibald Brown, the British official at the port of Naples, looked at the roster in his hand and called out the name—“Corporal Wojtek”, but...
The Triple Bridge of Pontarfynach
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
About 15 km outside Aberystwyth, in Wales, is a small village named Pontarfynach, meaning “the bridge on the Mynach”. As the name suggest, t...
Bir Tawil: The Land No Country Wants
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2018
Wedged between the borders of Egypt and Sudan is a small parcel of land that is truly unique in this world. It is one of the last unclaimed ...
