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Welcome Issue 11

highlights

In May 1455, a relatively small battle erupted his helicopter, machine gun, and much
on English soil, but what it lacked in scale it more. Seamlessly going from one genius to 42 What if?
more than made up for in importance. The many others, our themed section on page 12 What would have happened
to the worldwide balance
battle – taking place at St Albans – signalled features scientific greats such as Newton and of power and subsequent
the start of the Wars of the Roses, a bloody Archimedes. We have a new feature this issue, history if Germany had
triumphed in the Great War
conflict that would tear a nation apart over History Answers, that can be found on page against Britain and its allies?
the next 30 years. 96. To find out who discovered America and “I’m not a crook”
The civil war has stayed in the nation’s what exactly Checkpoint Charlie was then 60 The Watergate scandal
consciousness partly due to Shakespeare’s check this out now. ultimately led to the disgrace
and resignation of US
Richard III (“Now is the winter of our president Richard Nixon. Find
discontent”) and also because it is a ripping out how Nixon’s web of lies
was woven and unravelled.
good story – mad kings, ambitious queens,
brutal battles and shifting allegiances. To 84 Rebel with a cause
read about this conflict turn to page 48. William Shakespeare wrote
his great works during a
We also feature the top ten inventions time of religious and political
from that true Renaissance man, Leonardo Andrew Brown turmoil. Did these events
lead to him inserting hidden
da Vinci – turn to page 68 to find out about Editor messages into his works?

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