The Landlocked Navy of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2018
Many landlocked countries with no access to the open ocean maintain navies, which might seem odd at first. But once you realize that aside f...
Null Island: The Fictional Place Created by Digital Mapping Error
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2018
A few hundred miles off the west coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea, a lonely weather buoy bobs up and down the ocean waves. Code named...
The Collyer Brothers: History’s Worst Hoarders
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2018
In the heart of Harlem, in New York City, at the northwest corner of 128th Street and 5th Avenue, lies a small rectangular lot. A sign from ...
The Horseback Fishermen of Oostduinkerke
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2018
On the western end of Belgium’s short coastline, about 20 km east of Dunkirk, France, is a place called Oostduinkerke (meaning “East Dunkirk...
The Cave-Dwelling Crocodiles of Gabon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2018
Ten years ago, a team of scientists went exploring into the rainforest of Gabon, and ventured into a cave. In the pitch-black, bat-infested...
Queen Elizabeth’s Childhood Playhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the garden of Windsor’s Royal Lodge in Berkshire, England, tucked away from public view stands a miniature thatched cottage with white-wa...
How The Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the early 1960s, the two nuclear superpowers of the world—the United States of America and the Soviet Union—began looking for ways to uti...
Diolkos: An Ancient Trackway That Carried Ships Over Land
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2018
In ancient times, Greek merchants sailed all around the Mediterranean Sea carrying goods from Spain to Phoenicia and from Carthage to Egypt ...
The War of The Bucket
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2018
In a way, all wars are stupid—but none was stupider than the Battle of Zappolino that was waged over a silly wooden bucket. The War of the ...
The Glass Fishing Floats of Japan And Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2018
Every year, Oregon’s Lincoln City, on the west coast of the United States, organizes a treasure hunt where more than 3,000 handcrafted glass...
