When Israel Erased Color From Television Broadcasts

Feb 10, 2021

The first television broadcast in Israel was black and white, but unlike most nations, it wasn’t due to the lack of technology to broadcast ...

London’s Protected Views

Feb 8, 2021

Many prominent landmarks in London, such as St Paul's Cathedral, the Monument to the Great Fire of London , the Tower of London, The Pal...

Giuseppe Ferlini: The Pyramid Destroyer

Feb 5, 2021

If there is something that characterizes archeology, it is the care, the almost exquisite touch that is given to the sites and that makes a ...

William Walker: The Man Who Saved Winchester Cathedral

Feb 4, 2021

More than a century ago, Winchester Cathedral, which is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe and the longest of all Gothic cathedrals, wa...

How Astronomer Percival Lowell Mistook His Own Eye For Spokes on Venus

Feb 2, 2021

Percival Lowell, the American astronomer whose name bears an observatory in Arizona, made several very significant observations of the plane...

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

Feb 1, 2021

The 1950s were exciting times. There was much enthusiasm and optimism around the use of atomic energy, which was seen as the solution to all...

Shoeburyness Boom: A Cold War Era Defense Across The Thames

Jan 28, 2021

At first glance, the concrete piles lying off the coast of southeast Essex, near the town of Shoeburyness, looks like the exposed columns of...

The Silver Tree of Karakorum

Jan 27, 2021

Of all the things described in William of Rubruck's account of his travels through 13th-century Asia, perhaps none is so striking as the...

Mäusebunker: Berlin’s Mouse Bunker

Jan 26, 2021

Sitting squarely in the middle of Berlin is a monstrous-looking building with façade of solid grey concrete, punctured by long ventilation t...

Spindletop: The Gusher That Launched The Oil Industry

Jan 25, 2021

Although the modern oil industry is said to have begun with the drilling of the first oil well by Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania, it was the di...