ENGLAND'S LEAP FORWARD: THE GREAT CALENDAR CHANGE OF 1752

In the year, Britain made a bold change to its calendar. For centuries, the nation had followed the Julian calendar, which was slightly out of sync with the true solar year. This discrepancy caused confusion and uncertainty about the proper date. To rectify this issue, Parliament passed a transformative reform: the adoption of the Gregorian calenda

The Rosetta Stone, a monumental artifact unveiled in 1799, has served as a key to understanding the cryptic hieroglyphs of ancient Egyptian civilization. This remarkable slab, inscribed with the same decree in three different scripts—hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek—provided the crucial link essential for deciphering the long-lost language of t