A RIVER RUNS PUTRID: A SUMMER OF FILTH, 1858

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

In the harrowing trenches of World War I, a remarkable story unfolded during the Christmas season of 1914. Amidst the violence and fear, an unprecedented pause emerged between warring factions. As the bells of Christmas chimed throughout Europe, soldiers on both sides ventured out of their barricades. An scene of unprecedented brotherhood unfolded