Moldova’s Underground Wine City
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2018
The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...
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Transnistria, The Country That Doesn’t Exist
Kaushik Patowary
May 21, 2018
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, a thin sliver of land on Moldova’s eastern border with Ukraine broke apart from its parent c...
Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2016
From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...
