Prokop Diviš And The Lightning Rod
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2024
In 1754, Prokop Diviš, a Czech priest, attempted to control the weather but ended up inventing the lightning rod instead. Diviš was a past...
Showing posts with the label Czech Republic
The Monument to Soviet Tank Crews
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2023
For many decades, a Soviet tank raised on a pedestal in the center of Prague was a monument to the liberation of the city by the Red Army at...
5 Historical Figures Who Were Assassinated in The Lavatory
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2023
When a person is on the toilet, moving bowels, they are in a particularly vulnerable position. They are exposing parts of their body that ar...
Vesna Vulovic’s 33,000 Feet Fall
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2022
On January 26, 1972, the JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 flying from Stockholm to Belgrade became the target of a terrorist attack. A suitc...
Taxidermied Dogs of Bitov Castle
Kaushik Patowary
May 24, 2022
About 25 kilometers northwest of Znojmo, in Czech Republic, where the rivers Želetavka and Dyje meet, lies the small village of Bitov. Here,...
Frantisek Kotzwara: Death by Erotic Asphyxiation
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2022
Frantisek Kotzwara was an accomplished Czech composer and a talented performer of the violin, double bass, piano, cello, flute and other str...
How Medieval Bridges Were Built—An Animation
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2020
Building a bridge over water is a daunting task, and despite the many technological progresses, the basics have remain unchanged since ancie...
The Langweil Model of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2020
At Prague’s City Museum there is a large, unfinished paper and carboard model of Prague depicting how the ancient city appeared in the early...
Prague’s Streets Paved With Jewish Gravestones
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2019
Millions of people walking through the beautiful cobbled streets in the Czech capital Prague are unaware that they are treading upon old gra...
The Bullet-Scarred ‘Operation Anthropoid’ Church in Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2017
The Saints Cyril and Methodius Church on Resslova Street, in Prague, may look like any other Baroque church in the Czech capital, but turn r...
The Bear Moat of Český Krumlov Castle
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2017
The historic Český Krumlov Castle in the small city of Český Krumlov, in the Czech Republic, was built in the mid-13th century by the powerf...
The Ghosts of St. George’s Church in Lekova
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
For nearly fifty years, St. George’s Church in the village of Lukova, in Czech Republic, lay abandoned. The last congregation held in this 1...
Velká Amerika: The Czech Grand Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
Velká Amerika, or the Great America, is an abandoned limestone quarry located near the village of Mořina, in the Central Bohemian Region of ...
The Bridges of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2016
Located on the banks of Vltava River, the historic city of Prague and the capital of Czech Republic is said to be one of Europe’s best prese...
20 Most Beautiful Observation Towers
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 9, 2015
Observation Tower in Jurmala, Latvia “The Observation Tower in Jurmala” is located within the Dzintaru Park in Jurmala, Latvia. The 38-mete...
The Multi-Layered Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the past when a cemetery ran out of space and there were no more land to expand, a new cemetery was created by layering more soil over th...
Prague’s Narrowest Street is So Narrow it Has Traffic Lights For Pedestrians
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2015
In the heart of Prague’s oldest neighborhood, the historic Mala Strana or “Little Quarter”, there is a street so narrow that it’s impossible...
The Children’s War Victims Memorial in Lidice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 23, 2015
On 27 May 1942, a high-ranking German Nazi official and the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - Reinhard Heydrich, was being driven f...
Ještěd Tower Hotel in Czech Republic
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2013
Ještěd Tower is a 94 meter-tall television transmitter and hotel integrated into one, built on the top of Ještěd mountain near Liberec in th...
Robotic Bicycle Parking Tower in Czech Republic
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2013
Remember Volkswagen’s car parking towers in Germany? Recently, a Czech bicycle importer installed a similar automated parking tower for bic...
