Fulgurite: What Happens When Lightning Strikes Sand
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 21, 2015
A single bolt of lightning can deliver 5 gigajoule of energy enough to power an average U.S. household for more than a month. When such a ...
The Story of Hachiko, The Loyal Dog
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2015
Just outside one of the five exits of Tokyo's Shibuya Station is a bronze statue of a dog named Hachiko. It is one of the most popular m...
The Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2015
The royal estate of Kolomenskoye runs all the way along the right-bank of the River Moscow from Kolomenskaya to Kashirskaya metro stations a...
Titan Clydebank: An Industrial Crane, Now Scotland’s Unique Attraction
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2015
On the banks of River Clyde, in the town of Clydebank, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a towering cantilever crane rises. A hundred years ...
The Great Man-Made River of Libya
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2015
One of the biggest civilian development project that Libya’s ex-president Muammar Gaddafi undertook during his forty-two-year rule was the G...
Kramerbrucke: The Inhabited Bridge of Erfurt
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2015
The Krämerbrücke or the Merchant’s Bridge is an inhabited bridge in the German city of Erfurt that spans the Breitstrom, a branch of Gera Ri...
The Hippie Town of Christiania
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 16, 2015
In 1971 an abandoned military area in the borough of Christianshavn, in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, was taken over by squatters, and c...
The 3-Billion-Year-Old Klerksdorp Spheres of Ottosdal
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2015
In the small town of Ottosdal, in central North West Province of South Africa, miners working in pyrophyllite mines have been digging up mys...
Behind The Stage of Famous European Theatres
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2015
For the last few years, Hamburg-based photographer Klaus Frahm has been capturing images of incredibly ornamental European theaters from th...
Zheng He’s Enormous Treasure Ships
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 14, 2015
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages a...
