The Deepest Hand-Dug Well
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2021
Sitting outside the Nuffield Hospital in Woodingdean, near Brighton and Hove, is a small, inconspicuous-looking covered well. But despite it...
Zheltuga: The Illegal Russian Gold Mining Town That Sprang Up in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 10, 2021
In the spring of 1883, gold was discovered on a branch of the river Albazikha, in northern Heilongjiang province in China near the border wi...
Why 1972 Was The Longest Year in History
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2021
Some years seem longer than others, especially when you are passing through a bad phase in life such as being stuck at home because a pandem...
The Oldest Orbiting Satellite
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2021
When a satellite is launched into space it is not expected to last forever. The satellite carries on board a limited amount of fuel which wi...
The Accidental Bombing of Bezuidenhout
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2021
At eight o’clock in the morning of 3 March 1945, the air-raid sirens were heard for the first time over Hague. A short while later a wave of...
The Tiara of Saitapharnes
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2021
For the better part of a decade, the widely celebrated and esteemed Louvre Museum of Paris proudly displayed a supposedly ancient tiara made...
Poena Cullei: The Worst Roman Punishment
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2021
Throughout history Man has shown extraordinary imagination in inventing penalties and sentences for crimes committed by fellow man. The Roma...
Danila Tkachenko’s Ghostly Photographs of Abandoned Soviet Military Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2021
In his series “Restricted Areas”, Moscow-based visual artist Danila Tkachenko looks at the human impulse to use destructive technologies in ...
The Ksar of Ait Benhaddou
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2021
A small but vibrant city high up on Atlas Mountains, Ouarzazate, in south-central Morocco, has long been called the “door to the desert”. It...
That Time When The French Divided The Day Into 10 hours
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 28, 2021
For centuries we have used the sexagesimal system of measuring time, where each day is divided into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes and ...
