The Braamfontein Explosion
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2024
The city of Johannesburg in South Africa was founded on gold after the precious metal was discovered on the Witwatersrand by Jan Gerrit Bant...
Ernest Bazin: The Ship That Rolled on Wheels
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2024
Between 1892 and 1893, French inventor Ernest Bazin filed patent for an unusual ship design. Instead of gliding through water, which had hit...
Eulogy of The Dog: The Story of ‘Old Drum’
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2024
George Graham Vest spent twenty-four years in the United States Senate, serving from 1879 to 1903. However, his most notable legacy stems fr...
The L'Aigle Meteorite Shower And The Birth of Meteoritics
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 17, 2024
Prior to the 1800s, scientists were skeptical about the existence of meteorites. Despite historical reports of meteorite sightings dating ba...
The Ill-fated Jeannette Expedition to The Arctic
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 13, 2024
In the mid-19th century, explorers and geographers were seized by an idea that was first floated in the 16th century by the English cartogra...
Musée des Plans-Reliefs
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2024
In the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, is a museum dedicated to detailed military models of important towns ...
Pratt And Smith: The Last Men To Be Executed For Sodomy in England
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2024
On the morning of November 27, 1835, two men—James Pratt and John Smith—were publicly hanged in front of Newgate Prison in London. Just thre...
Barkway Carriage Wash
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2024
What looks like a pool of stagnant water by the side of the road in Royston, in Hertfordshire, is really the oldest carriage wash in the wor...
Paul-Félix Armand-Delille: Europe’s Rabbit Killer
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2024
In the 1950s, Australian sheep and cattle farmers decided to tackle the country’s rabbit problem by unleashing a biological weapon—the myxom...
The Best Stories of 2023
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 26, 2023
As we bid farewell to 2023 and embark on the journey into a new year, it's the perfect time to look back on a year filled with incredibl...
