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 of industrial discharges had transformed London's lifeblood into a stench. The stench was oppressive, a miasma that clung to every cobblestone and infuse

On a blustery morning in 1919, disaster unfolded Boston. A massive reservoir filled with sticky, sweet molasses ruptured sending a tidal wave of the thick liquid rushing through the streets. The power was catastrophic, flattening buildings and burying residents in a gooey soup. Hundreds of people were lost their lives, and many more suffered. The