James Tilly Matthews And The Air Loom
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2025
James Tilly Matthews was delusional. He believed that secret gangs of people were operating across London, using a bizarre machine called th...
Showing posts with the label History
Richard of Pudlicott’s Audacious Heist of The King’s Treasury
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2025
In April 1303, one of the most daring burglaries in English history took place within the walls of Westminster Abbey. Thieves broke into the...
Bachem Ba 349 Natter: Germany’s Strangest Aircraft From World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 7, 2025
World War II led to the creation of some truly bizarre and unconventional aircraft as nations scrambled to gain a technological edge. Among ...
Australian Iron Man: Ned Kelly’s Final Standoff
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 31, 2025
Throughout history, many outlaws have gained fame for their exploits, often becoming romanticized figures in folklore, literature, and film ...
The Raising of Mary Rose
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2025
The Mary Rose was a large warship in the Tudor Navy of King Henry VIII. She was the second most powerful ship in King Henry VIII’s fleet an...
That Time The US Tried to Make Rain By Shooting Explosives Into The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 15, 2025
The idea that humans could summon rain at will is historically rooted to superstition, until modern cloud-seeding techniques demonstrated it...
The Strange Death of James Price
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2025
In the world of grand promises and bold claims, the line between confidence and deception can blur all too easily. What begins as ambition c...
William Buckley’s Extraordinary Survival in The Australian Wilderness
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2024
The story of William Buckley—an English convict whose daring escape from a penal colony and subsequent life in the uncharted Australian wild...
Henry Every And The Looting of Ganj-i-Sawai
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2024
Henry Every was one of the most successful pirates to ever operate in the Atlantic and Indian oceans during the Golden Age of Piracy. Though...
The Submarine That Gave Its Crew A Mysterious Sickness
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 25, 2024
In 1863, German-American inventor and engineer Julius Hermann Kroehl founded the Pacific Pearl Company with the goal of profiting from pearl...
Toyohiro Akiyama: Japan’s First Man in Space Was a Journalist
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2024
Toyohiro Akiyama pressed his face against the glass of the small, round window on his space module and gazed down at Earth from 350 kilomete...
Henry Trigg And The Coffin in The Roof
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2024
For centuries, physicians and scientists have dissected human bodies to understand human anatomy, with a steady supply of cadavers often sou...
Enemies Making Deal: The First World War Glass–Rubber Exchange
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2024
In the midst of war, when nations are locked in bitter conflict, cooperation seems unimaginable. Yet, history offers surprising instances wh...
Santorio Santori And Insensible Perspiration
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2024
Some people become obsessed with tracking their weight, carefully counting every calorie they eat and burn through exercise. They even weigh...
The Delft Tower Experiment
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2024
In 1654, twelve years after the death of the brilliant Italian astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, Prince Leopold de' Medici, brot...
Le Pétomane: The Man Who Could Fart Melodies
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2024
In the vibrant world of Parisian cabaret, where extravagant performances captivated audiences every night, few acts were as peculiar or as u...
The Battle of Palmdale: How a Pilotless Drone Embarrassed The US Air Force
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2024
On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, 17-year-old Larry Kempton of Leona Valley was driving with his mother, Bernice, along Palmdale Boulevar...
Ernest Duchesne: The Forgotten Discoverer of Penicillin
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2024
In 1897, a young French medical student named Ernest Duchesne submitted a ground-breaking doctoral thesis titled Contribution to the Study o...
Paris Gun: World War One’s Greatest Weapon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2024
At quarter past seven on the morning of March 23, 1918, the people of Paris were jolted by a powerful explosion near the Quai de la Seine. F...
José Meiffret’s 200km/h Bike Ride
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2024
This strange looking bike with an enormous chain wheel was designed for speed, and speed it did achieve. On July 19, 1962, French cyclist ...
