Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 02, 1997
Transcript:
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Technologies Inc. of Toronto has designed 1,200-sq.-ft. houses shaped like cubes that ares et on 18-ft.-high bases! Believe It or Not! England's King Edward I, because of air pollution, passed a law in the 10th century making the burning of coal an offense that was punishable by death! The ancient Polynesians used a "MATTANG," or web of interlocking sticks, to study the patterns that waves form when deflected by land!
I imagine the unbreathable fumes created locally by ubiquitous coal burning were anything but alarmist.