The Dam Climbing Alpine Ibex
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2019
Alpine Ibex are big mountain goats that live among the peaks in the European Alps where predators cannot reach. They occupy the steep, rock...
The Adorable Custom of ‘Telling The Bees’
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2019
The bee friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924) There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a stra...
Luna 15: The Soviet Probe That Tried to Gatecrash America’s First Moon Landing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 19, 2019
Two hours before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were scheduled to leave the surface of the moon after their historic moonwalk, an unmanned ...
Ugly Belgian Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2019
There is a near universal appeal among Belgians to build their own house, which is reflected in the popular saying—“every Belgian is born wi...
Prinkipo Orphanage: Europe’s Largest Wooden Building
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2019
This rickety wooden building, practically on the verge of collapse, is the largest wooden building in Europe and the second largest in the ...
Fake Tree Observation Posts of WW1
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 16, 2019
Camouflaging has always been a part of warfare, but it was only during the two world wars that things got really creative. During the First...
The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
In 1993, while rummaging through a junk shop in Vienna, Austria, artist Oliver Croy made an extraordinary discovery—hundreds of beautiful, ...
Why Batman’s Gotham City is Named After a Nottinghamshire Village
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2019
Gotham is a fictional city in the DC Universe but its namesake is not. Located across the Atlantic in South Nottinghamshire, this quiet, lit...
Somalia’s Hand Painted Storefronts
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 12, 2019
Many businesses and shopkeepers in Somalia—which is one of the world’s poorest nations—cannot afford luxuries such as backlit signs and viny...
The Temples of Mount Fanjing
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2019
Fanjingshan or Mount Fanjing, in Guizhou Province in southwest China, is a sacred Buddhist site and a place of great natural beauty with un...
