LONDON'S RIVER TURNED MURKY: 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 detestable force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial discharges had transformed London's lifeblood into a stench. The stench was overwhelming, a miasma that clung to every cobblestone and pervad

The year the year of our Lord eight hundred and forty-five AD. A chill wind swept across the Seine River, carrying with it the scent carrying salt and fear. The Norsemen were amongst us, a ravenous swarm of warriors seeking glory. Their longships, like prowling predators, sliced through the waters, their standards waving in the wind. A city once pe