Philip Ashton: The Castaway
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2023
Just three years after the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe , a youngster from Massachusetts suffered a fate similar to the pro...
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Sargasso Sea And Sargassum
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2019
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Caribbean, is unlike any other sea in this planet. The boundaries of the sea are defi...
How Solitary Confinement Saved Ludger Sylbaris From The Deadliest Volcanic Eruption
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 13, 2018
At the northern end of Martinique, a French overseas island in the eastern Caribbean sea, stands Mount Pelée, a volcano that famously erupte...
The Sand Covered Floors of Caribbean Synagogues
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2017
The Caribbean is not all about sandy beaches, its about sandy synagogues too. As many as four synagogues in this part of the world have flo...
The Slave Huts of Bonaire
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2015
Bonaire is an island located off the north coast of South America near the western part of Venezuela, and like many Caribbean islands, Bonai...
The Arecibo Observatory of the SETI Project
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2010
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope located close to the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico, operated by Cornell University under coope...
