Beautiful Siberian Lake is Actually a Toxic Waste Dump
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2019
The electric blue waters of this pond in the Russian city of Novosibirsk has become the backdrop of many Instagram fans lately. Photograph...
Linnaeus's Flower Clock: Keeping Time With Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2019
Who needs a watch to tell time when we got flowers? Many species of flowering plants open and close their flowers at specific times through...
The World’s Southernmost City
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 3, 2019
The southern part of South America is fractured into a number of small islands collectively known as Tierra del Fuego. Located roughly betwe...
That Time When America Air-Dropped Pianos For Troops in Battlefields
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2019
You thought pianos dropping from the sky is a gag for cartoons? Then hear this story out. During World War Two, all kinds of production inv...
Hellburner: The 16th Century Weapon of Mass Destruction
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2019
In the age of sail, when ships were made of wood, fire was the number one enemy of sailors, and this fearsome tool was used in diabolic ways...
The World’s Longest Dinosaur Trackway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2019
In the French village of Plagne, in the Jura Mountains, 200 kilometers east of Lyon, there is a set of huge footprints made 150 million yea...
The Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2019
Like many rulers, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I had a fascination for large monuments, but instead of actually building them he roman...
The Longest Papal Election in History
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2019
The main attraction in the ancient city of Viterbo, in central Italy, is a 13th century palace built to serve as the country residence for t...
The World’s First Parachute Jump
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 25, 2019
On December 26, 1783, a crowd gathered outside the observatory in Montpellier, a French city near the south coast on the Mediterranean Sea. ...
Hermits As Garden Ornaments
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 24, 2019
Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, a certain reproachful and voyeuristic trend emerged among wealthy British landowners. Not content w...
