People use lemons to make lemonade by mixing lemon juice and water. Many people also use lemon as a washing agent, because of its ability to remove stains. The scent of lemons can also repel mosquitoes, while drinking lemon juice with olive oil helps to get rid of gall stones.
Both the Arabic name RaÅ¡Ä«d (meaning guide) and the western name Rosetta or Rosette (little rose in Italian and French respectively) are corruptions (or folk etymologies) of a Coptic toponym, Trashit.osetta or Rosette was the name used by the French at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte 's campaign in Egypt and thus became eponymous of the Rosetta Stone (French: Pierre de Rosette), which was found by French soldiers at the nearby Fort Julien in 1799.
The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt. Ptolemy V was the 5th ruler of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled Egypt from 305 BC to 30 BC.