The Osoaviakhim-1 Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 13, 2024
Between 1930 and 1932, Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard made more than two dozen trips to the upper atmosphere using a balloon of his design...
Horizontal Collaboration: Sleeping With The Enemy
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2024
The historic D-Day landing by Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of a crucial phase in World War...
John Stringfellow And The World's First Powered Flight
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 5, 2024
In 1842, British engineers William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow received a patent for a flying machine. Unlike previous attempts made...
Antimony Pill: The Everlasting Pill
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2024
Antimony—the soft, lustrous gray metal—has many industrial uses such as in the preparation of flame-retarding compounds and in the manufactu...
Nerodimka River Bifurcation
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2024
The Nerodimka river in the Nerodime region of Kosovo is the only river in Europe that drains into two different seas, a phenomenon known as ...
The Killer Whales of Eden
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 26, 2024
The Thaua people, who reside around Twofold Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, share a special bond with killer whales or...
Xerxes Canal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2024
The Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece, that juts into the Aegean Sea for some 50 kilometers, was once bisected by a canal a hundred fee...
Olivier Levasseur’s Lost Treasure
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2024
On the 7th of July 1730, the notorious French pirate, Olivier Levasseur, faced his final moments on the scaffold. His crimes, which had inst...
Da Shuhua: Fireworks of Molten Iron
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2024
For five centuries, the inhabitants of Nuanquan village in Yu County, in the northwestern reaches of Hebei province, China, have marked the ...
Casimir Zeglen: The Priest Who Invented The Bulletproof Vest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2024
On October 28, 1893, the tranquility of Chicago was shattered with the assassination of its mayor, Carter Harrison, who was shot on the door...
