By 1972, the democratic national convention became a place where delegates met to

By 1972, delegates to the democratic national convention met primarily to ratify decisions already made by primary voters. Since 1832, the Democratic National Convention (DNC) holds every four years. It’s at the DNC that the United States Democratic Party nominates and confirms a candidate for president and vice president.

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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