The Pigeons Who Took Photos
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2018
At the turn of the last century, when aviation was still in its infancy, a German named Julius Neubronner submitted a patent for a new inven...
Shanghaiing: How Trickery And Deception Turned Thousands of Unwilling Men Into Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2018
Underneath Portland’s Old Town is a network of tunnel passages connecting the basements of many downtown bars and hotels to the Willamette R...
How to Get Away With Murder in Yellowstone National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2018
In 2005, a Michigan State law professor published a paper in a law journal where he described a way to commit the perfect crime and get away...
The Theater That Shakespeare Stole
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2018
On a cold, snowy December night in 1598, about a dozen men armed with swords, daggers and axes quietly broke into a recently vacated theater...
Unalaska: The Town Full of Bald Eagles
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2018
The bald eagle may be America’s national bird, but for the small Alaskan town of Unalaska, this majestic bird is little more than a pest. Th...
Peary Land, The Land of Extremities
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2018
The northern tip of Greenland, despite being situated a little over 700 km from the north pole, is entirely ice free and has been for the la...
Why Do Many Historic Buildings in The UK Have Bricked Up Windows?
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2018
There was a time in Great Britain when having windows in homes and buildings were prohibitively expensive. That time began in 1696 with the...
John Cleese’s Rubbish Dump in Palmerston North
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2018
Just outside the city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand is a rubbish dump named Mt Cleese. It’s perhaps the first time...
The Eufala Oak The Owns Itself
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 14, 2018
There once stood a huge oak tree near the center of Eufala, a small city in Alabama, the United States. The 65-foot-tall tree was the city’s...
Beechey Island And Franklin’s Lost Expedition
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2018
On the southwest corner of Devon Island in the Canadian Archipelago of Nunavut, lies a small desolate island—the island of Beechey. For more...
