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Volume 70 Issue 7 July 2020
In the July issue:
- The Field of Cloth of Gold
- Child Voters
- The Colonels’ Failed PR Coup
- The Early Life of Gibberish
- Venetian Spies
- History’s Worst Political Advisers
- Drinking Games
- Ancient Work Hazards
- Dogs
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