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 unpleasant force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial effluents had transformed London's lifeblood into a nauseating odor. The stench was overwhelming, a miasma that clung to every cobblestone

In the harrowing trenches of World War I, a remarkable story unfolded during the Christmas season of 1914. Amidst the bloodshed and fear, an unprecedented pause emerged between warring factions. As the bells of Christmas chimed throughout Europe, soldiers on both sides crossed out of their dugouts. A scene of unprecedented unity unfolded in No Man'