The World’s Largest Waterfalls Are Underwater
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 27, 2018
Victoria Falls in southern Africa is often regarded as the world’s largest waterfalls. “Regarded”, because there is no standard method to me...
How War Marooned 15 Ships in The Suez Canal For Eight Years
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2018
The Arabs and the Jews have never got along. Since the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism towards the end of the 19th century, the two gro...
Northern Cyprus’s Giant Mountain Flag
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 24, 2018
From any high point in Nicosia, the capital and the largest city on the island of Cyprus, one can see a giant flag of Turkey-occupied Northe...
The Landlocked Navy of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 21, 2018
Many landlocked countries with no access to the open ocean maintain navies, which might seem odd at first. But once you realize that aside f...
Null Island: The Fictional Place Created by Digital Mapping Error
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2018
A few hundred miles off the west coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea, a lonely weather buoy bobs up and down the ocean waves. Code named...
The Collyer Brothers: History’s Worst Hoarders
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2018
In the heart of Harlem, in New York City, at the northwest corner of 128th Street and 5th Avenue, lies a small rectangular lot. A sign from ...
The Horseback Fishermen of Oostduinkerke
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2018
On the western end of Belgium’s short coastline, about 20 km east of Dunkirk, France, is a place called Oostduinkerke (meaning “East Dunkirk...
The Cave-Dwelling Crocodiles of Gabon
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2018
Ten years ago, a team of scientists went exploring into the rainforest of Gabon, and ventured into a cave. In the pitch-black, bat-infested...
Queen Elizabeth’s Childhood Playhouse
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the garden of Windsor’s Royal Lodge in Berkshire, England, tucked away from public view stands a miniature thatched cottage with white-wa...
How The Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2018
In the early 1960s, the two nuclear superpowers of the world—the United States of America and the Soviet Union—began looking for ways to uti...
