So we’re all sweltering from the heat…air so thick and hot you can feel it go down your throat as you breathe. But heat waves are nothing new. They killed thousands in 1898 and thousands more in the early 1900s. But the one that hit London 166 years ago, changed the city forever. It was “the great stink of 1858.”

The Backstory: Shocking Death of a Heroic 9/11 Widow
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The Backstory: Technology: Where We Came From and Why We’re So Lonely
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The Backstory: The London Fog That Killed 12,000
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