Atlanta was founded in 1837 as the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line (it was first named Marthasville in honor of the then-governor's daughter, nicknamed Terminus for its rail location, and then changed soon after to Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic--as in the railroad).  Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest in daily passenger flights.  Direct flights to Europe, South America, and Asia have made metro Atlanta easily accessible to the more than 1,000 international businesses that operate here and the more than 50 countries that have representation in the city through consulates, trade offices, and chambers of commerce.  The city has emerged as a banking center and boasts the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the country.  Since the late 1970s, dozens of dazzling skyscrapers designed by such luminaries as Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, and Marcel Breuer have reshaped the city's profile.  https://www.atlantaga.gov/visitors/history  

Atlanta was named by J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad.  Mr. Thomson gave varying stories about how he came up with the name, but our personal favorite is that the city was named for former Governor Wilson Lumpkin's daughter's.  Her middle name was Atalanta, after the fleet-footed goddess.  Standing Peachtree was the name of the fort built on the Georgia frontier by future governor, then Lt. George Gilmer.  It may also have been the name of an old Indian village in the area.  Early settlers called the area Canebreak or Canebrake, depending on which history you're reading.  On June_9, 1835 the federal government recognized the area with the Whitehall Post Office.  Hardy Ivy was an early citizen and it was on his property that Stephen Long established the end of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Colonel Abbott Hall Brisbane, Chief Engineer of the W&A named the area Terminus in September, 1837.  The name Terminus was never an official name and between 1837 and 1842 the area was also called Deanville (for Lemuel Dean) and Thrasherville (for John J. Thrasher).  In 1842 former governor Wilson Lumpkin, then president of the W&A suggested either the name Lumpkin or Mitchell for the town (Samuel Mitchell had given land to build the actual terminus).  On December 23, 1842, the tiny town was incorporated as Marthasville in honor of his daughter, Martha Atalanta.  The origin of this name may have been an unknown Milledgeville clerk or, more likely, Charles Felton Mercer Garnett, who was then Chief Engineer of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.  Anyway, in 1845 Atlanta finally got its name, and has been stuck with it ever since.   http://www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com/ang/Origin_of_the_name_Atlanta



Words better known by their negative forms:  vincible, equivocal, corrigible, evitable 



Francisco Toledo is a Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.  Toledo’s paintings reflect the mythology of Mexico and often display the influence of Surrealism and Paul Klee’s playful manner.  This is evinced in his painting Hidden Scorpion (1996), in which the artist employs curling fractals to hint at the body of a scorpion.  “What I do is a mixture of things, but the pre-Hispanic world has been a source of inspiration,” he explained.  “There are certain solutions that are decorative that come from pre-Hispanic art and at the same time there is much primitive art that is refined or simple but also very modern.”  Born on July 17, 1940 in Juchitán, Mexico, he studied at Taller Libre de Grabado in Mexico City, where he met the celebrated Oaxacan painter Rufino Tamayo. Toledo had his first exhibitions at the age of 19, both in Mexico City and Fort Worth, TX. In 1960, the artist moved to Paris where he produced prints in the studio of Stanley William Hayter and established his hallmark aesthetic.  Retuning to Mexico in 1965, Toledo began producing works which address his Zapotec heritage.  http://www.artnet.com/artists/francisco-toledo/


The Rosetta stone is a dark grey granite slab three feet tall with a pink vein running through the top left corner, and it is carved with writing in three scripts:  Greek, Egyptian demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphic.  Because the text of each of the Egyptian scripts is the same as the Greek text, which scholars were able to translate quickly after discovery of the monument, the Rosetta Stone became the key to deciphering the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.  It is the most famous discovery made by the French forces in Egypt.  When it was taken to Cairo and given over to the scholars of the Institute of Egypt, they recognized immediately that it was the single most important object in their care.  The stone was discovered in July 1799, one year after the French had arrived in Egypt.  Captain François-Xavier Bouchard, an engineer and officer in Napoleon’s Egyptian army, was in charge of the demolition of an ancient wall in the city of Rosetta on a branch of the Nile, a few miles from the sea. The Rosetta Stone was built into the wall, but Bouchard recognized that the stone might make it possible to decipher hieroglyphics.  So he saved it, and the stone was taken to the scientists in Cairo in mid-August 1799.  The Rosetta Stone came to London and to the British Museum (where it remains) in 1802, after the French surrender to the British forces in Egypt.  Though defeated, the French were reluctant to surrender the stone.  The scientists of the Institute of Egypt held their final meeting in Cairo on March 22, 1801, and then moved to Alexandria.  The Rosetta Stone went with them.  Under the terms of the treaty, however, all of the Egyptian antiquities that had been collected by the French, including the Rosetta Stone, were to be handed over to the British forces.  All arguments and attempts by the French to keep the stone out of British hands failed and it finally left Egypt on board an English ship bound for Portsmouth, where it arrived in February 1802.  Read more and see graphics at https://napoleon.lindahall.org/rosetta_stone.shtml



Vietnamese Peanut Rice and Lemongrass Tofu by Ylva Bergqvist  When I think of Vietnamese food, it’s fresh herbs that spring to mind.  The coriander (cilantro) in this dish is essential, but ideally you should get all three herbs--they’re well worth it.  Life is full of choices, and so is this recipe.  For instance, you can add steamed broccoli or pak choi (bok choi), or have it with noodles instead of rice.  recipe serves 4  https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/vietnamese-peanut-rice-and-lemongrass-tofu



The littoral zone or nearshore is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore.  In coastal environments, the littoral zone extends from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged.  The littoral zone always includes this intertidal zone, and the terms are often used interchangeably.  However, the meaning of littoral zone can extend well beyond the intertidal zone.  The term has no single definition.  What is regarded as the full extent of the littoral zone, and the way the littoral zone is divided into subregions, varies in different contexts.  (Lakes and rivers have their own definitions.)  The use of the term also varies from one part of the world to another, and between different disciplines.  For example, military commanders speak of the littoral in ways that are quite different from marine biologists.  The adjacency of water gives a number of distinctive characteristics to littoral regions.  The erosive power of water results in particular types of landforms, such as sand dunes, and estuaries.  The natural movement of the littoral along the coast is called the littoral drift.  Biologically, the ready availability of water enables a greater variety of plant and animal life, and particularly the formation of extensive wetlands.  In addition, the additional local humidity due to evaporation usually creates a microclimate supporting unique types of organisms.  The word littoral may be used both as a noun and as an adjective.  It derives from the Latin noun litus, litoris, meaning "shore".  (The doubled tt is a late-medieval innovation, and the word is sometimes seen in the more classical-looking spelling litoral.)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_zone



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY  Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. - Wendell Berry, farmer and author (b. 5 Aug 1934)



I. Rice Pereira (August 5, 1902-January 11, 1971) was an American abstract artist, poet and philosopher who played a major role in the development of modernism in the United States.  She is known for her work in the genres of geometric abstraction, abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction, as well as her use of the principles  Wikipedia

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