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John Logie Baird’s invention, the
television, has educated countless people
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Not many historical time periods are as Victoria Cross through their awe-inspiring “I have a dream”
evocative as the Wild West, with its duels at bravery. Turn to page 34 to read about how 54 Martin Luther King’s speech
high noon and ‘wanted’ posters. It’s a time one Irish soldier single-handedly stormed at the March on Washington
in 1963 turned out to be a
period television and films have mined for all two machine-gun bases and lived to tell the milestone in the fight for
they are worth, but the actual historical fact is as tale. Elsewhere in another action-packed issue equality, but it also made him
a target among his enemies.
compelling as any fictional drama. we look at the fall of the Aztecs at the hands
We saddle up our horses and go on a of a Spanish conquistador who would stop at 74 10 greatest impostors
Find out about history’s
vendetta ride with the famous lawman Wyatt nothing in his quest for power and gold. greatest scammers, who
Earp on the hunt for a dangerous band of killers. impersonated kings and
royalty, tried to sell national
Earp himself became an outlaw and had to monuments and even
race against time to catch the killers before the invented new lands.
law caught up with him. With the feature also Militant battle for
covering the top ten gunslingers of the Wild 82 women’s rights
West, you really should hop on over to page 62. How British women’s fight
for the right to vote became
We are proud to debut a new feature this Andrew Brown increasingly violent and
issue about the brave soldiers who won the Editor even included arson and the
planting of bombs.
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