Demonstration of a Cantilever Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2018
A cantilever bridge is a bridge whose main elements are cantilevers—structures that are anchored at only one end while the other end floats ...
The Domes of Fabedougou
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2018
These weathered rocks in the village of Fabedougou, near Banfora, in south-western Burkina Faso resemble the sandstone towers of Bungle Bung...
Cropmarks: How Dry Weather Can Reveal Hidden Archaeological Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2018
Across Europe, and the world at large, there are a large number of archeological sites yet to be discovered. Many of these ancient settlemen...
Battle of Kohima: The Greatest World War Two Battle Everyone Forgot
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2018
Perched on top of a mountain ridge, some 5,000 feet up in the remote hilly terrain of northeast India, lies the town of Kohima, in what is n...
Morwellham Quay: A Historic Copper Port
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2018
Just four miles to the southwest of Tavistock, in Devon, England, “bordering the beautiful River Tamar, amidst towering cliffs and gently ro...
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...
