How’m I doin’?” the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald ...

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The choice of phrasing has played well with some. Nigel Farage, in that impressively demotic way he has, said that his Reform party “very much enjoyed your speech… you seem to be learning a great deal ...

Inscribed with the exact text in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Ancient Greek, it enabled Jean-François Champollion to decode the hieroglyphic script in 1822, marking the beginning of Egyptology.

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