Bill clinton escaped conviction and removal as president because

Polls indicated that a large majority of Americans believed the President had lied under oath, but not enough Senators thought his offenses rose to the level necessary for removal from office. While he was technically impeached, there were not enough votes in the Senate- despite a Republican majority- to convict him and possibly remove him from office.

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