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...
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The Ether Monument in Boston
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2023
In a corner in Boston's Public Garden, near the intersection of Arlington Street and Marlborough Street, stands an obscure monument that...
The Ancient Egyptian Obelisks of Rome
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2022
When the Romans were not busy moving earth to build colossal amphitheaters and aqueducts, they were busy moving obelisks. The city of Rome h...
Anschlussdenkmal: The Forbidden Nazi Memorial
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2021
The Anschlussdenkmal, or Anschluss Monument, in the Austrian town of Oberschützen, is a Nazi monument erected to commemorate the bloodless c...
Remembering Epidemics With Plague Columns
Kaushik Patowary
May 15, 2020
Military victories are much celebrated, but a victory against a common enemy, such as a disease, is as important, especially in older times ...
The Skull Tower of Niš, Serbia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 21, 2020
In the city of Niš, in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, stands a macabre monument to the Serbian resistance against the Ottoman's 400-...
How Japanese Bamboo Helped Edison Make The Light Bulb
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2019
Thomas Alva Edison's invention, or shall we say “perfection”, of the light bulb helped brighten up homes of people all across the world,...
Mimizuka: The Burial Site of Thousands of Noses
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 28, 2019
In the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood in the suburb of Kyoto, Japan, is a 30-foot-high, grass-covered hillock within which are b...
The Boot Monument: How America Remembers Its Most Infamous Traitor
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2018
At the Saratoga National Historical Park in New York is an American Revolutionary War memorial depicting a single boot sculpted in stone. Th...
Tura Coo: The Cow That Led A Town To Riots
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2018
A hundred years ago, a small farming community called Turriff in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, became the unlikely stage for one of the most biza...
Roger Babson: The Man Who Tried To Fight Gravity
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 11, 2018
Throughout history humans have learnt to live with gravity despite its innumerable inconveniences, accepting it as a physical fact of the un...
The Monument That Was Also A Science Lab
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2018
The Monument to the Great Fire of London that stands near the northern end of London Bridge is a pretty well known landmark. It’s a tall Dor...
The Forgotten Communist-Era Monuments of Bulgaria
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2017
From the end of the Second World War until the fall of communism in 1990, Bulgaria was a communist state ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Pa...
The Unfinished Obelisk of Aswan
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2017
The granite quarries located along the Nile, in the city of Aswan, supplied some of the finest quality stones for the construction of temple...
The Unfinished National Monument of Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 26, 2017
High up on the summit of Carlton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, stands the country’s National Monument. But far from being the source of natio...
Monument to The Armenian Alphabet
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2017
Located near the village of Artashavan, close to the highway, in Armenia, stands 39 giant carved Armenian letters dedicated to the language ...
Postman’s Park’s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2017
Tucked away in a quiet corner of Postman's Park in central London, easily overlooked, lies a remarkable memorial. Under a wooden canopy,...
The Anti-Communist Dwarves of Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2017
Scattered throughout the city of Wroclaw, Poland, are hundreds of small bronze statues of dwarves. They began appearing in the streets in 20...
The World's Smallest Monuments
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2017
The Russian city of Tomsk is home to the smallest public monument in the world —a tiny bronze frog, sitting on top of a smooth rock. The scu...
Saar Polygon: A Monument to Coal Mining in Germany
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2016
On June 2012, the last of the coal mines operating in the Saarland region in west Germany closed, marking the end of a 250-year history of m...
