Charvolant: The Kite-Drawn Carriages
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2019
On 8 January 1822, an extraordinary journey was made from Bristol to Marlborough. An English schoolteacher named George Pocock took his wif...
Grammichele: The Hexagonal Town
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2019
Located in the province of Catania, in the Italian island of Sicily, is the town of Grammichele. It is one of the few towns in the world to...
Cloughmills’ Crochet Village
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 18, 2019
The village of Cloughmills in County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, has a small model replica of their village displayed in their village hall...
The Great Wall of China Hoax
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2019
“Fake news” is a new term, but lies and propaganda is as old as written history, spread by individuals to aggrandize oneself or smear the pu...
The Gable Stones of Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 16, 2019
Before Amsterdam had house numbering, they had a curious way of identifying addresses. Each house and building in the city used to have a st...
Congreve Rolling Ball Clock
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2019
In the early 19th century, an Englishman named Sir William Congreve invented an unusual clock that kept time using balls rolling down an inc...
China’s Misguided War Against Sparrows
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2019
These panel of images from the late 1950s China, depicting young boys hunting sparrows for sport, were taken from a poster aimed at school ...
A Short History of Showering
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2019
Personal hygiene hasn’t always been an integral part of grooming, yet the need to clean oneself easily and quickly was as pressing in ancien...
Cascata delle Marmore: A Man-Made Waterfalls Created by Ancient Romans
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2019
About 8 kilometers east from the city of Terni, in the Umbria region of Italy, is a beautiful three-tiered waterfalls called Cascata delle M...
Forma Urbis: Rome’s Giant Marble Map
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2019
A modern illustration of the Temple of Peace with Forma Urbis, the giant map of Rome, on the wall. At the Roman Forum in the center of Rom...
