When Dead Whales Toured The Country
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 17, 2020
For almost three decades, from the 1950s though the 1970s, three gargantuan, smelly, whale carcasses toured the length and breadth of Europe...
Unaweep Canyon: The Canyon With Two Mouths
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2020
Unaweep Canyon in western Colorado, the United States, is a large canyon that cuts across the Uncompahgre Plateau, a large uplift within the...
Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2020
Out of all places to stick your head into, a particle accelerator would rank among the worst. Yet, on that fateful day of 13 July 1978, thir...
Circus Maximus
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2020
The Colosseum was the Roman Empire’s largest amphitheater, but it was not the largest stadium. That title belonged to Circus Maximus, situat...
A Treasure Trove of Antique Car Accidents
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2020
For four decades from 1917 through the late 1950s, Boston Herald-Traveler photographer Leslie Jones covered every major and minor events in...
Cynthia, The Celebrity Mannequin
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2020
The story of Pygmalion, from ancient Greek mythology, is well known. Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his own creation, which ...
London’s Only Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2020
On the north bank of River Thames, just across the iconic O2 arena (formerly known as the Millennium Dome), stands London’s only lighthouse....
The Tunnel of Eupalinos
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2020
Digging tunnels is probably among the most toughest engineering projects the ancient people undertook, because it required mastering several...
The Znamya Space Mirror
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2020
For a few hours just before dawn on the night of 4 February 1993, a giant spotlight, 5 kilometers in diameter, raced across Europe from we...
Town Pounds
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2020
Scattered across the English countryside and in many former British colonies, especially northeastern United States—an area historically kno...
