The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2022
Near the northern tip of Vermilion Bay in the US state of Louisiana, lies a small saltwater lake called Peigneur. Although pretty modest by ...
The Pacific Island Where Prince Philip is God
Anonymous
Apr 4, 2022
At the other end of the sea from where Queen Elizabeth sits on her throne in England, photos of her husband holding a unique club rest safel...
The Great Conservatory of Chatsworth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2022
Before Joseph Paxton built the magnificent edifice of glass and iron, the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he built an enorm...
Can You Solve The Shugborough Code?
Anonymous
Mar 31, 2022
From the Caesar Shift of ancient times to a Nazi coding device called the Enigma Machine, the world before us left its mark in keys and code...
Scribonius Longus, The Roman Physician Who Used Electricity as a Treatment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 30, 2022
Scribonius Longus (Latin Scribonius Largus ) was a 1st century AD Roman physician who served at the court of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) an...
Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2022
The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...
The Mysterious Legacy of The Poe Toaster
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2022
The macabre attraction of Edgar Allen Poe and his works has reached far and wide over centuries. But the Poe Toaster is a testament to just ...
The Battle of The Eclipse
Anonymous
Mar 25, 2022
Picture this: two raging kings have been at war for five years now. Lives have been lost, battles have been fought, and in the current momen...
‘Meldeman Plan’: The First Siege of Vienna
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2022
One of the oldest topographical maps of Vienna is the so-called “Meldeman-Plan’’ published by the Austrian painter and printer Nikolaus Meld...
The Miraculous Survival of Phineas Gage
Anonymous
Mar 24, 2022
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Except in the case of Phineas Gage, who became a lot of things but strong after an accident that o...
