The Rosetta Stone‚ an ancient slab of black basalt‚ seems unimportant behind glass in its new home. When inspected‚ multiple inscriptions can be seen‚ three different sections. The biggest mystery was the Egyptian hieroglyphs‚ the unknown language. However‚ this mysterious riddle stone was the key to unlocking ancient Egypt’s history. The riddle of the Rosetta Stone was not discovered until 1799‚ by then the sacred carving’s meaning had been forgotten. Discovered in a ruined wall‚ the Rosetta
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historians who journeyed along with the army. But‚ of all the discoveries made‚ the most important was the Rosetta Stone‚ the key that unlocked the ancient marvel of Egypt. What is the Rosetta Stone is? The Rosetta stone is a very important artifact that was discovered during the French invasion of Egypt in the year 1799. You may ask why this is important. Well because of the Rosetta Stone‚ the historians and scientists now understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Previous to the discovery
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Internal Environment Corporate Structure Rosetta Stone’s headquarters are in Washington‚ DC. Here the decisions are made that move the company forward. Their whole focus is put on their one product‚ which is a computer program that teaches people a language in an innovative way‚ they have differentiation in their product in the sense that they have different languages and that they specialize their products to their customer. They have a second office in America in Colorado. Furthermore there are
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Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1609817 CREDIBILITY OF THE IPO GRADING: TIME TO RETHINK KARTIKEY MAHAJAN & MALLIKA ANAND Prologue Initial Public Offer (hereinafter as ‘IPO’) in the new regime (which started as an innovation) has to be mandatorily graded by a Credit Rating Agency (hereinafter as ‘CRA’). This optimization of the IPO by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (hereinafter as ‘SEBI’) has been seen as a market innovation to ensure the credibility of
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AUGUST 2002 A Review of IPO Activity‚ Pricing‚ and Allocations JAY R. RITTER and IVO WELCH* ABSTRACT We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity: why firms go public‚ why they reward first-day investors with considerable underpricing‚ and how IPOs perform in the long run. Our perspective is threefold: First‚ we believe that many IPO phenomena are not stationary. Second‚ we believe research into share allocation issues is the most promising area of research in IPOs at the moment. Third
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The Rosetta Stone had been a mystery for years. Greek scholars unsuccessfully attempted to decipher the meaning until it had gone missing. Many had gone looking for the stone‚ but it was not until Napoleon and his team of scholars had entered Cairo that any progress had been made. With the ongoing war between the French and the British it had taken a while before the treasure was found. The Rosetta Stone was then found in 1799‚ in Rashid Egypt when Napoleon’s army was demolishing a wall. In the nonfiction
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Rosetta is a robotic spacecraft built and launched by the European Space Agency to perform a detailed study of the comet 67P. It is part of the ESA Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions and it is the first mission in which a spacecraft is planned to orbit and land on a comet. Rosetta was launched in March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and will reach the comet in August 2014. The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the Rosetta space probe orbiter‚ which features 12 instruments‚ and the Philaerobotic
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Deciphering the Rosetta stone and Bankes Obelisk was very important as it held information of the Egyptians and their language. It would also allow archaeologists to discover the true origins of the world. The stone was translated in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs‚ Demotic and Ancient Greek. Thomas Young’s approach was to use mathematics to decipher the hieroglyphs by counting the number of times the Greek words appear‚ he can then look for groups of symbols occurring the same number of times which
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Understanding IPOs and IPO Scams You don’t have to spend too much time around the stock market to discover that there’s something fishy about many stocks’ initial public offerings‚ (IPOs). The standing joke is that IPO really stands for “It’s Probably Overpriced”. While that may or may not be true in any given case‚ there are a large number of pitfalls awaiting the would-be IPO trader or investor. It’s a case of caveat emptor‚ and in order to be suitably wary you need to understand how an IPO works and
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Today I will talk about Facebook; it’s a very topical subject particularly since Facebook submit paperwork to regulators for an IPO‚ 1 month ago. But let’s start with a little part of history Histoire «From Harvard dorm room to all Canadian and US University : Mark Zuckerberg‚ 28‚ founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students‚ including Facemash‚ where you could rate people’s attractiveness
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