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Latest posts by Prasad Kaushik VIn 1990, the United States Park Service noticed that the walls of the Jefferson Memorial were deteriorating rapidly. The structure was being power washed frequently to clean up massive amount of bird droppings. But before jumping to expensive solutions like sealants or bird nets, investigators used...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 10:00 am
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During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and her team of nurses confronted appalling sanitary conditions in British field hospitals. She realized that more than battlefield injuries, soldiers succumbed to preventable diseases like cholera, dysentery and typhus; with mortality rates at some hospi...
Posted on 26 June 2026 | 12:37 pm
Read postIn 1787, Russian Empress Catherine II along with several members of her court planned a tour of Crimea. To show that the area was more prosperous than it was and impress the Empress, the local Governor, Grigory Potemkin, used painted facades and set up mobile villages along the Dnieper River. As soo...
Posted on 22 May 2026 | 10:30 am
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