New Jersey is building bridges between its state and Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York. It claims it has the right to all tolls collected and uses the bridges as a sort of customs-- taxing goods as they enter. Do they have this right? What would this mean for other states? What about goods travelling up and down the East Coast?

the decreasing neutrality of the u. s. in world war i

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lincoln won 212 electoral votes to mcclellan's 21 votes, and lincoln beat mcclellan. is the main reason lincoln won in 1864.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

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