Samuel Terry: The Convict Who Made it Big in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2023
In June 1801, Samuel Terry stepped off Earl Cornwallis in chains. He had come to Sydney to serve out his sentence at the convict’s colony. ...
James Holman, The Blind Traveler
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 13, 2023
James Holman was a remarkable figure in the history of travel and exploration. Born in Exeter, England, in 1786, Holman lost his sight in hi...
6 Spectacular Survivors of Free Fall
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2023
It is said that a fall from a height of only six feet can be deadly with broken bones, head injuries, spinal cord injuries and even death. B...
The Oldest Functioning Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2023
The Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1, or LCS-1, is a large, hollow, aluminum sphere with a precisely defined cross-section that has been on Eart...
Masabumi Hosono: The Disgraced Titanic Survivor
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2023
In 1997, on the eve of the release of James Cameroon’s blockbuster movie Titanic , a curious story from Japan came to light. It was about Ma...
The Telescope That Got Shot
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2023
In the early 1960s, as NASA geared up towards space exploration, engineers and astronomers at the federal organization felt the need for a l...
The 1956 Olympic Flame Hoax
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2023
The 1956 Summer Olympics was held in Australia. As was the custom, the Olympic flame was lighted in Olympia, months before the games started...
Dorothy Lawrence: The Woman Who Posed as a Soldier to be a War Correspondent
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2023
The First World War was reported from an almost exclusively male perspective, because few female war correspondents were given access to the...
The Ice Palace of Anna Ioannovna
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2023
The winter of 1739-40 was incredibly harsh all over Europe and especially brutal in Russia. Temperatures plummeted to forty degrees below ze...
Limes Arabicus, The Chain of Fortifications That Protected The Roman Territory From Desert Tribes
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 23, 2023
When we talk about "limes", we usually think of the limits of the Roman Empire in northern Europe, in Germania or Britain. But in ...
