June 2023 (Issue 121)

Johannes Gutenberg examines a page from the moveable type printing press that he invented

Who invented the printing press?

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A cartoon image of feet in front of the sea

Life hacks from history Learn to relax . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fulvia gleefully posing with Cicero’s severed head, in an 1898 painting by Pavel Svedomsky. Whether or not she pierced his tongue with hairpins is the subject of debate (Photo by CBW / Alamy Stock Photo)

Fulvia: the maligned wife of politicians who made herself the power broker of ancient Rome

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Mathematician and Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing played a key role in deciphering the Enigma code (Photo by Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if... The Enigma code had not been cracked by Alan Turing and Bletchley Park? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tenzing Norgay The Sherpa who first conquered the world's highest mountain