Ann Moore: The Fasting Woman of Tutbury
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 18, 2022
Ann Moore was in her late 40s when she became famous as the ‘fasting woman’ of Tutbury. She claimed that she had not eaten any solid food fo...
Nimrud Lens: A 2,700-Year-Old Magnifying Glass
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2022
During excavations of the ancient Assyrian capital of Kalkhu (better known as Nimrud, in Iraq) in 1850, archaeologist Austen Henry Layard fo...
The Strange Tale of Lord Uxbridge's Leg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 13, 2022
At the Battle of Waterloo, on 18 June 1815, Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, and later the 1st Marquess of Anglesey—a veteran of many mili...
The Wicked Bible
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2022
A scandalous printing mistake in a 17th century King James Bible caused it’s printers to lose their license, and a vast majority of the bibl...
Shipton's Arch: The Tallest Natural Arch in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2022
The tallest natural arch in the world is located in China’s western Xinjiang region, and is called Shipton’s Arch, after the name of the Eng...
How an Ancient Piece of Earth Rock Ended Up on The Moon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 11, 2022
The six Apollo missions that landed on the moon from 1969 to 1972 brought back several hundred kilograms of rocks from the lunar surface. Sc...
The New England Vampire Panic
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 10, 2022
In the 19th century, a mysterious illness struck rural New England. Those affected had hacking coughs, a wasting fever and weight loss. The ...
The Windham Frog Fight of 1754
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2022
Drive through the small town of Windham in Eastern Connecticut, United States, and you’ll wonder why the people here have a strange obsessio...
Shizo Kanakuri: The Man Who Took 54 Years To Finish a Marathon
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2022
Shizo Kanakuri was not a slow runner. In fact, he reportedly set the world record by completing a 40-km marathon run in 2 hours, 32 minutes,...
Pierre Picaud: The Real Count of Monte Cristo
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2022
Alexandre Dumas’s literary classic The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Dumas’s most famous and beloved novels, but this satisfying tale of ...
