Casimir Zeglen: The Priest Who Invented The Bulletproof Vest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2024
On October 28, 1893, the tranquility of Chicago was shattered with the assassination of its mayor, Carter Harrison, who was shot on the door...
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The Warsaw Radio Mast
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2023
Some radio transmitters are built to great heights in order to reach audiences far and wide. In fact, nine out of ten structures taller than...
Falowiec: The Wave Building of Gdańsk
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 31, 2023
In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a series of peculiarly shaped apartment blocks were constructed in the Polish city of Gdańsk. They we...
The Dwarves of Wrocław
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2023
The city of Wroclaw is famous for its charming market square, stunning old houses, and majestic churches. But lurking below near the ground,...
The Curse of King Casimir IV Jagiellonian
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 13, 2022
Casimir IV Andrew Jagiellonian was one of the most successful rulers of Poland, who, having defeated the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Ye...
Charles Domery, The Glutton
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2022
In 1799, Doctor Thomas Cochrane, a surgeon at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, found in his care a man with the most unusual ea...
Johannes Hevelius’s Moon Atlas
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 22, 2021
German astronomer Johannes Hevelius is often regarded as one of the last great astronomers to carry out major observational work without a t...
Malbork Castle: The Brick Marvel
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2020
The Malbork Castle in northern Poland wears two feathers in its cap. Not only it is the largest castle in the world measured by land area, i...
Churches of Peace: The Churches That Defied The Holy Roman Emperor
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2019
In the towns of Jawor and Świdnica, in the Silesia neighborhood of Wroclaw, Poland, stand two magnificent timber-framed churches. The Holy ...
Gliwice Radio Station, Where World War 2 Began
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2018
On the evening of August 31, 1939, as the last rays of the setting sun lingered on the top of the giant wooden mast towering over the then G...
Project Riese: The Secret Nazi Tunnels in Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2018
Eighty kilometers to the south of Wroclaw, underneath Poland’s oldest mountain range, the Owl Mountains, lies a massive underground complex ...
Wojtek: The Bear That Drank Beer And Went to War
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2018
Archibald Brown, the British official at the port of Naples, looked at the roster in his hand and called out the name—“Corporal Wojtek”, but...
Bialowieza: Europe’s Last Primeval Forest
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2017
Before the arrival of humans, much of northeastern Europe was covered by primeval forests that stretched for thousands of kilometers across ...
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 Wolf’s Lair, Poland
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2016
Deep in the Masurian woods about 8 km from the small East Prussian town of Rastenburg, lies the ruins of Adolf Hitler’s most secretive bunke...
The Mausoleum of The Martyrdom of Polish Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2016
A beautiful new World War 2 memorial is nearing completion in Michniów in south-central Poland. Set to open in 2016, the Mausoleum of the Ma...
Upside Down Houses Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2015
A clichéd yet popular tourist attraction that never fails to amuse is an upside down house, with a faithfully reproduced exterior and interi...
Crooked, Drunken And Dancing Forests
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
A tree, when left to its own device, will normally grow straight. But when the tree is young and its trunk is tender, it can be forced to gr...
The Train to Heaven in Wroclaw
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 28, 2015
The Train to Heaven is a monument depicting an old, real steam locomotive standing upright and pointing towards the sky, located at Strzegom...
The Inclined Boat Lifts of Elblag Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 2, 2015
The Elblag Canal, also called the Elblag-Ostroda Canal, is a 150-years-old canal in Poland that runs from Elblag to Ostroda. At over 80 km i...
