I don’t usually do obituaries on this blog, but I couldn’t let the recent passing of Michelle Ferrero go unacknowledged, as he made history in his own right.
He was the candy maker who invented Tic Tacs, Nutella, and the… Read More
In 19th-century London, water companies made no effort to filter the drinking water pumped in from the Thames. On several occasions, live eels came wriggling out of people's faucets.
source: Liza Picard, Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840 - 1870