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The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

Update: 2019-03-1452
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In the summer of 1858, a heatwave dried up the Thames River to a trickle in London. As centuries’ worth of human waste, animal carcasses and other nasty things cooked in the sun, a stench arose that was so horrific it got its own name: The Great Stink.

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The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name

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