Galgano Guidotti And The Sword in Stone
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2018
The story of King Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur which he pulled out of a rock to prove his divine right to the throne is well kno...
The World’s Longest Portico
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
Portico di San Luca : Photo credit: Stefano Carnevali/Shutterstock.com Atop a forested hill, some 300 meters above the city of Bologna, st...
New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2018
An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...
Banaba: A Tropical Paradise Destroyed by Mining
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii, there is a small island named Banaba belonging to a scattered group of is...
Robert Peary’s Meteorite And Minik
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...
The Mountain That Japan Hid From The World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2018
Photo credit: 663highland/Wikimedia Inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park, in the island of Hokkaidō, not far from the active stratovolca...
Stott Hall: The Farm in The Middle of The Highway
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2018
Driving along the M62 motorway, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire between junctions 22 and 23, motorists are greeted with an un...
The Treetop Squatters of Hambach Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2018
For the past six years, some men and women have been living in a small 250-acre forest on the outskirts of Cologne, near the town of Jülich ...
Corippo: The Village That Wants to Become a Hotel
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2018
The tiny mountain village of Corippo, perched on the Swiss Alps, is much more than a village. It is an autonomous municipality with its own ...
Frankfurt’s Old Quarter Reconstructed 70 Years After The War
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 2, 2018
The DomRömer Quarter in the heart of the old town of Frankfurt, Germany, has received a new breath of life after the controversial Technical...
