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Jul. 19, 2008: The Writer's AlmanacSaturday's Poem: "Up against the Sea" by David Wagoner from A Map of the Night. Saturday's Literary Notes: On this date in 1799, French soldiers found the famous Rosetta Stone. They were tearing down a wall in the town of Rosetta, thirty miles north of Alexandria in Egypt, and found the famous tablet inscribed with a proclamation honoring Ptolemy V, carved in three alphabetic systems: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek. It served as the key to decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics, which had puzzled archeologists up to that time. It's now on display at the British Museum in London...
