When ‘Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass’ Was a Real Thing
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 15, 2018
This neat little box containing a pair of bellows and an assortment of pipes and other fixtures is a Tobacco Resuscitator Kit from the 18th...
Britain's Giant Hillside Chalk Figures
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2018
The Westbury White Horse carved on the hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Photo credit: tipwarm/Shutterstock.com A large portio...
How The London Bridge Was Sold to America
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2018
For centuries, children and kindergarteners have sung and danced to the tune of London Bridge is falling down , but when engineers discovere...
Galgano Guidotti And The Sword in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2018
The story of King Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur which he pulled out of a rock to prove his divine right to the throne is well kno...
The World’s Longest Portico
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
Portico di San Luca : Photo credit: Stefano Carnevali/Shutterstock.com Atop a forested hill, some 300 meters above the city of Bologna, st...
New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
Banaba: A Tropical Paradise Destroyed by Mining
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii, there is a small island named Banaba belonging to a scattered group of is...
Robert Peary’s Meteorite And Minik
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...
The Mountain That Japan Hid From The World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2018
Photo credit: 663highland/Wikimedia Inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park, in the island of Hokkaidō, not far from the active stratovolca...
Stott Hall: The Farm in The Middle of The Highway
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2018
Driving along the M62 motorway, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire between junctions 22 and 23, motorists are greeted with an un...
