Painless Parker: The Showman Dentist
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 27, 2022
At the Temple University's dental museum in Philadelphia, there is a small section dedicated to one of the most notorious dentist of Ame...
The Band of Holes
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2022
In Peru’s Pisco Valley, there is a strange alignment of thousands of shallow pits. The pits are arranged in a narrow band about 14 to 20 met...
The Diary of Merer: A 4,500-Year-Old Papyrus That Details The Construction of The Great Pyramid
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2022
The Great Pyramids of Giza has been one of the world’s greatest enigmas—how did an ancient society build such massive monuments without the ...
Dr. Gustav Zander's Victorian-Era Exercise Machines
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2022
Dr. Gustav Zander's institute in Stockholm, founded in 1865, could be called the world’s first gym. It was equipped with twenty-seven cu...
Princess Caraboo: The Imposter That Fooled a Nation
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2022
On 3 April 1817, a mysterious woman in her mid-twenties walked into the small English village of Almondsbury in Gloucestershire. She was dre...
Grace Darling's Daring Rescue of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2022
In 1838, a young woman pulled off a heroic rescue saving several survivors from a wrecked merchant ship off the coast of Northumberland in n...
Gol Gumbaz: The Taj Mahal of South India
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2022
In the city of Bijapur, in the south Indian state of Karnataka, stands one of the grandest royal tombs to be ever constructed in India. Aptl...
Code of Ur-Nammu: The Oldest Law in History
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2022
Some of the earliest legal codes concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment were formulated in the ancient Middle East. The Sumeria...
Simeon Stylites: The Ascetic Who Lived Atop a Pillar For 37 Years
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2022
Many monks and hermits go to great lengths to deny themselves of simple pleasures in order to atone their sins and pursue spiritual goals. S...
Carlton Tavern: The Pub That Was Reborn From Rubble
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2022
Carlton Tavern in Kilburn, London, was the heart of the community for nearly a hundred years until it ceased to exist one spring morning in ...
