Medieval Russians Built Churches in One Day to Ward Off Epidemics
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 18, 2020
In the middle ages, many Russian communities, especially in the Novgorod and Pskov regions, believed in building churches as response to cal...
Pitch Drop Experiment: The World’s Longest Running Lab Experiment
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2020
The pitch drop experiment began in 1927 when Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, set out to dem...
SS Baychimo: The Unsinkable Ghost Ship
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 16, 2020
Ships aren’t meant to sink, but sometimes you have to wonder what miraculous forces kept a vessel afloat. The SS Baychimo was such a ship. ...
Franz Reichelt’s Fatal Jump
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2020
The British Pathé film archive has a chilling video of a man jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower. The man in the short video is shown...
The Fighter Plane That Shot Itself Down
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2020
Fighter aviation has come a long way from the crude old days when pilots shot down their own planes as often as the enemy’s. In those early ...
The Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2020
Until the late 19th century, the shores of Rotomahana, in northern New Zealand, were adorned by one of the most spectacular travertine terra...
The Fake Dome of The Church of St. Ignatius
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2020
One of Rome’s lesser-known attractions, the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola ( Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Italian), lies just ...
Henley-On-Todd: The Waterless Regatta
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2020
Every August, Alice Springs, a large town in the heart of Australia’s Northern Territory, holds an unusual boat race on Todd River, a river ...
Saint Guinefort: The Holy Greyhound
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2020
Around the second half of the 13th century, a Dominican friar known as Stephen of Bourbon, began travelling the width and breadth of souther...
Gara Medouar: The ‘Spectre’ Crater
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 3, 2020
The 1999 Hollywood movie The Mummy is set in Egypt, but was filmed largely in Morocco. Marrakech became the Cairo of 1926, the year the sto...
