LONDON'S RIVER TURNED MURKY: A SUMMER OF FILTH, 1858

The city of London sweltered in the heat of summer, 1858. But it was not merely the sun that scorched the metropolis. An even more detestable force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years Victorian engineering of industrial effluents had transformed London's lifeblood into a foul-smelling mire. The stench was overwhelming, a miasma that cl

The year 845 AD. A chill wind blasted across the Seine River, carrying with it the scent of salt and fear. The Norsemen had arrived, a horde swarm of warriors seeking riches. Their longships, like beasts of the north, sliced through the waters, their standards waving in the wind. A city once confident now trembled beneath the threat of Ragnarök. P