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London experienced a fog like no other—it was thick, yellowish, and downright deadly. This wasn’t just regular fog; it was ...
Created in the 1990s by a customer in Vancouver’s Buckwheat Cafe, the London Fog drink remains a popular drink for tea lovers today. Mary Loria, a customer, invented the drink while searching for a ...
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London may be known for its drizzly weather, but in 1952 the city’s quintessential fog cover turned deadly, and no one knew exactly why — until now. For five days in December 1952, a fog that ...
London may be known for its drizzly weather, but in 1952 the city's quintessential fog cover turned deadly, and no one knew why — until now. For five days in December 1952, a fog that contained ...
In 1952, up to 12,000 people died when acidic fog covered the city of London. A new study explains why it happened. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe.
Christine Corton’s “London Fog: A Biography” tells the story of the thick yellow fogs that cloaked London in the 19th and 20th centuries — they inspired a lot of Victorian-era literature ...
Corton also discusses the book that Peter Ackroyd has called “the greatest novel of London fog,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886).