In early united states history, "midnight judge" refers specifically to a) judges who lacked qualifications for office. b) racist groups who terrorized minorities at night. c) political action committees who influenced local magistrates. d) judges appointed to serve based on their political affiliation.

D) judges appointed to serve based on their political affiliation.

Explanation:

D) judges appointed to serve based on their political affiliation.

Explanation: As he was leaving office, outgoing President John Adams, a Federalist, appointed like-minded judges to ensure the new president, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson, would have to work with judges of the opposite political party. These judges were appointed to serve based on their political affiliation and eventually became the center of a political firestorm, leading to the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison.

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

worldwide, 780 million people do not have access to an improved water source. an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation (more than 35% of the world's population)