What does the phrase “king cotton” mean?
it was the most sought after commodity.
it was required that all farms grew some cotton.
it was the economic pursuit for the entire nation.
it was being grown in all parts of the nation.

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

the space race was a battle to make advanced technology to get to the moon and to get a better understanding of space.

lots of people lost money in both

he killed a bunch of jews so no one was spending money and the stock market rose again