Your Thoughts on the Rolling Stone Cover?

Good morning, Beacon Hill! Here are five things you need to know today, Friday, July 19:

1. ROLLING STONE: What are your thoughts on the upcoming controversial Rolling Stone cover featuring alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev? Leave your comments here.

2. OUTSIDE THE BOX: We saw a lot of very happy people having a good time despite hot temperatures Thursday at the Outside the Box Festival on Boston Common, enjoying some Cuban salsa music. Today's schedule is here and the festival runs through Sunday.

3. GET THE PATCH NEWSLETTER: Have you signed up for the Beacon Hill Patch Daily Newsletter yet? Each morning you can get Beacon Hill Patch news delivered directly to your e-mail inbox. It's totally free, so if you like what you read here, sign up now!

4. THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly 2,000 years. Information courtesy of History.com.