The Angel of The North
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2015
The Angel of the North is a steel sculpture of an angel with outstretched wings that stand 20 meters tall on top of a hill in Tyneside, outs...
Panathenaic Stadium: The Birthplace of Modern Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2015
The first modern Olympic Games was held in the summer of 1896 in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, that saw the participation of 241 athlet...
Towns of Twins
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2015
The University of Texas estimates that 32 out of every 1,000 people in this world are a twin or 16 pairs in 1,000, which translates to 3 pe...
The Mysterious Lakes of Badain Jaran Desert
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2015
The Badain Jaran Desert occupies parts of China and Inner Mongolia covering an area of 49,000 sq. kilometers making it the third largest des...
Kuthodaw Pagoda And The World's Largest Book
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2015
Kuthodaw Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa, located at the foot of Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Burma. It was built during the reign of King Mindon M...
For What It’s Worth: Visualizing Yield of Gold and Diamond Mines
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2015
South African photographer Dillon Marsh , continues with his photo project “For What It’s Worth” that attempts to quantify mining by visuali...
The Mud Brick Villages of Wadi Hadramaut and Wadi Dawan
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2015
Yemen in a desert country located on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the ...
The Disappearing Lake Urmia of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2015
Lake Urmia, in north-western Iran, was once one of the largest permanent saline lake in the world and the second largest in the Middle East,...
Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex: A Giant Military Complex That Was Operational For Only 24 Hours
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2015
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet nuclear attack was a genuine threat and the United States decided that a defense program was needed ...
Hollow Heart in Watermelon
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2015
You might assume that this watermelon here has been carved by hand, but actually is completely natural. This strange condition is known as “...
