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...
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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...
