HMS Diamond Rock: The Stone Frigate
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 11, 2021
South of Martinique, an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, lies a small basalt island called Diamond Rock. With an imposing peak of 175 me...
The Citadel of Bam: The World’s Largest Mud Building
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2021
Sometime between 579 and 323 BC during the Achaemenid Persian period, the Citadel of Bam (in Persian Arg-é Bam) was built in southeastern pr...
The Maharaja’s Well
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2021
We think that charity always flows from the richer nations to the poorer ones, but sometimes it also flows the other way. When Ireland was s...
Sears Mail-Order Homes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2021
What’s the heaviest thing you can buy from Amazon? The internet says it’s a 1,500-pound, 6-feet tall gun safe , but back when Sears was the ...
The Exiled Bell of Uglich
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2021
When Ivan the Terrible died in 1584, he left behind two sons, neither of whom was suitable to carry forward their father’s heirloom. One was...
Dulmial: The Village of World War Heroes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2021
A small Pakistani village located about 150 kilometers south of Islamabad is home to a proud monument—a 19th century cannon gifted by the Br...
The Great Sheep Panic of 1888
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2021
Sheep are notoriously timid and nervous animal, and can get startled easily. But what mysterious provocation could have caused thousands of ...
Britain’s Secret Fuel Pipelines
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2021
How do airline companies procure fuel for their fleet? In the UK at least, the fuel comes through pipelines delivered directly at the airpor...
Clarence E. Willard: The Man of Could Grow at Will
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2021
In 1913, while in England, Clarence E. Willard had to renew his passport in order to travel, and most importantly, in order for him to retur...
Propeller Driven Railways
Kaushik Patowary
May 31, 2021
A locomotive can derive power from many different sources. The earliest locomotives were driven by steam. Then came electric trains powered ...
