The city of London sweltered 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 effluents had transformed London's lifeblood into a nauseating odor. The stench was oppressive, a miasma that clung to every cobblestone and

In the depths trenches of World War I, a remarkable story unfolded during the Christmas season of 1914. Amidst the violence and horror, an unprecedented truce emerged between warring factions. As the bells of Christmas chimed throughout Europe, soldiers on both sides crossed out of their barricades. An scene of astonishing unity unfolded in No Man'