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 unpleasant force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial waste had transformed London's lifeblood into a foul-smelling mire. The stench was overwhelming, a miasma that clung to every cobblestone and

On a blustery afternoon in that fateful year, disaster struck Boston. A massive tank filled with sticky, sweet molasses burst sending a wall of of the thick liquid flowing through the streets. The power was catastrophic, flattening buildings and burying citizens in a sticky mire. Hundreds of people were lost their lives, and many more were wounde