Tower of The Winds: The World’s First Weather Station
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2018
The Tower of the Winds, or the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes, is an elegant octagonal marble tower in the Roman Agora in Athens. It is...
The Story Behind Sydney’s ‘Eternity’ Graffiti
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2018
For over twenty five years, from 1930 to 1956, the people of Sydney woke up each day to a one-word sermon—”Eternity”—handwritten in yellow c...
Before The Internet, What People Asked New York Public Library's Librarians?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2018
Before there was the Internet and Google, the only way to find answers to a pressing question was to visit the local library and ask the all...
Tura Coo: The Cow That Led A Town To Riots
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2018
A hundred years ago, a small farming community called Turriff in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, became the unlikely stage for one of the most biza...
What Soldiers Carried To Battlefield Through The Ages
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2018
Societies have been warring with each other since ancient times. Weapons were probably the first tools humans built, first to hunt animals f...
Broken Promises: The Wartime Evacuation of Imber And Tyneham
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2018
In the beginning of November 1943, all residents of Imber, a quiet little village at the heart of Salisbury Plain, were summoned to a meetin...
Kryptos: The Mystery Sculpture At CIA’s Headquarters
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2018
For the past 17 years, a cryptographic puzzle has stood on the grounds of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, taunting cryptograph...
The Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2018
The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia—Tigris and Euphrates—rises in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, and after flowing through...
Roger Babson: The Man Who Tried To Fight Gravity
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2018
Throughout history humans have learnt to live with gravity despite its innumerable inconveniences, accepting it as a physical fact of the un...
Trinity Bridge: The Orphaned Bridge of Crowland
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2018
In the heart of Crowland, a small town in Lincolnshire, England, is a unique attraction—a 14th century stone arch bridge standing by the sid...
