Friday, February 18, 2022

Cabbagetown, Georgia is an historic neighborhood (listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places) and one of Atlanta’s oldest industrial settlements.  After the Atlanta Rolling Mill was destroyed in the Battle of Atlanta, Jacob Elsas, a German Jewish immigrant, began operations of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, in 1881.  Cabbagetown was built for the workers of the South’s first textile processing mill.   White laborers were recruited from the Appalachian region of north Georgia.  The promise of wages, health care, and housing was an attractive alternative for many who were previously poor sharecroppers.  From 1881 to 1922, Elsas built a small community of simple frame one and two-story shotgun and cottage-style houses flanking the Mill.  In the fashion of similar paternalistic Mill owners, Elsas attempted to provide his workers with everything he believed they needed; security, medical, dental, a library, nursery services, even the occasional “picture show.”  This grew a tightly knit, semi-isolated community whose lives were anchored to the Mill.  Everyone in this community worked the Mill; men, women and even children, until the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed in 1938, banning child labor.  The Mill thrived until 1957, when it was sold to new owners.  The homes were offered to their respective tenants. The homes not bought by the current residents were sold to investors.  The Cotton Mill is a rare example of Atlanta’s earliest industrial architecture, and was added to the National Historic Register in 1976, along with the original houses surrounding the Mill.  After the century old mill closed in 1977, Cabbagetown went into a brief decline.  Some of the original workers left to find work, but many stayed.  Sparked by an influx of artists in the 1980’s, including a photographer, Raymond Herbert, known by many as Panorama Ray, Cabbagetown started to see tremendous growth.  Many had high hopes for the Atlanta art scene and aspired to make Cabbagetown into an art gallery district as well as an overall artistic zone.  Panorama Ray opened an art studio and photo gallery called, Cirkut Central, on the main drag of Carroll Street.  In 1995, during a time of rapid renewal and gentrification within Atlanta’s neighborhoods, the Mill was sold for conversion into lofts.  The project was one of the biggest loft conversions in the United States and required funding from several sources including the City of Atlanta, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the federal Empowerment Zone Program.  Today the old Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill is a gated community called the “Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts.”  Since Panorama Ray’s death in 1997, Carroll Street has become the home of some of Atlanta’s most noteworthy restaurants and makes a great people-watching spot.  Cabbagetown throws an annual festival, Twisty Park, to commemorate the sense of community after the tragedy of the tornado.  Today, Cabbagetown is home to a unique mix of families, singles, young couples, artists and professionals.  Home styles include farmhouse Victorians, bungalows and early 1900’s shotgun style homes.  It is a rural-type neighborhood community within an urban setting.  Here you will find people with a rich sense of community.  You will find people gardening together in the Community Garden, picnicking in one of our lovely parks or sitting on their porches together; talking, laughing and helping each other out.  A great time to come see our Cabbagetown is in November when we have our annual Chomp and Stomp Bluegrass and Chili Cook-off Festival.  The day starts with a 5k run and culminates with a tasting of over 100 different chilis, bluegrass music on 3 stages and artist booths throughout.  https://cabbagetown.com/history 

According to Marion A. “Peanut” Brown, when she moved to the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Village in 1919 she got her first job peddling produce on foot and carrying baskets of sweet potatoes from door to door. There she met and worked with Joe Newman from a mule-drawn wagon.  They peddled around town through the week, but on Fridays and Saturdays many produce wagons would park at one of three different mill gates. They soon found that cabbages sold better than all the other produce and decided to take entire loads of nothing but cabbage, thus the beginning of the name Cabbagetown.  She says the name slowly spread and by the mid 1930’s the place was well known as Cabbagetown.  Another explanation is the mostly transplanted poor Appalachian residents (largely of Scottish-Irish descent) who worked in the nearby Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, would grow cabbages in the front yards of their shotgun houses and one could distinctly smell the odor of cooking cabbage coming from the neighborhood.  People outside the neighborhood said “Cabbagetown,” with derision, but it soon became a label of pride for the people who lived there.  A variation of this explanation is that a local cab company operating off Memorial Drive gave nicknames to various neighborhoods they serviced and the specifically called the mill town Cabbagetown, because of the smell.  Yet another explanation is that a train carrying a load of cabbages derailed by the mill adjacent to the neighborhood and the poor residents quickly accumulated the cabbages and used them in just about every meal.  A variation of this legend has a Ford Model T taking a sharp turn at one of the main intersections of Cabbagetown, and flipping over spilling its cargo of cabbages across the street.  Someone yelled “Free Cabbages!” and they were soon carted away by the residents.  https://cabbagetown.com/history

 From:  Linda Salvay  The Hebrew word for cherub also means cabbage. 

From:  Andrew Pressburger  According to the 12th-century Jewish scholar Maimonides, the highest form of charity is when neither the donor nor the recipient is aware of the other’s identity.  AWADmail Issue 1021 

We are able to see color because each of our eyes contains between 6 million and 7 million light-sensitive cells called cones.  There are three different types of cones in the eye of a person with normal color vision, and each cone type is most sensitive to a particular wavelength of light:  red, green or blue. Information from millions of cones reaches our brains as electrical signals that communicate all the types of light reflected by what we see, which is then interpreted as different shades of color.  When we look at a colorful object, such as a sparkling sapphire or a vibrant hydrangea bloom, "the object is absorbing some of the white light that falls onto it; because it's absorbing some of the light, the rest of the light that's reflected has a color," science writer Kai Kupferschmidt, author of "Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color" (The Experiment, 2021), told Live Science.  "When you see a blue flower—for instance, a cornflower—you see the cornflower as blue because it absorbs the red part of the spectrum," Kupferschmidt said.  Or to put it another way, the flower appears blue because that color is the part of the spectrum that the blossom rejected, Kupferschmidt wrote in his book, which explores the science and nature of this popular hue.  Mindy Weisberger  https://www.livescience.com/why-blue-rare-in-nature.html 

Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out (lose hue) by producing a grayscale color like white or black.  When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two colors.  Complementary colors may also be called "opposite colors".  Which pairs of colors are considered complementary depends on the color theory one uses:  Modern color theory uses either the RGB additive color model or the CMY subtractive color model, and in these, the complementary pairs are redcyangreenmagenta, and blueyellow.  In the traditional RYB color model, the complementary color pairs are redgreenyellowpurple, and blueorange.  Opponent process theory suggests that the most contrasting color pairs are red–green, and blue–yellow.  The black-white color pair is common to all the above theories.  The traditional color wheel model dates to the 18th century and is still used by many artists today.  This model designates red, yellow and blue as primary colors with the primary–secondary complementary pairs of red–green, blue-orange, and yellow–purple.  In this traditional scheme, a complementary color pair contains one primary color (yellow, blue or red) and a secondary color (green, purple or orange).  The complement of any primary color can be made by combining the two other primary colors.  For example, to achieve the complement of yellow (a primary color) one could combine red and blue.  The result would be purple, which appears directly across from yellow on the color wheel.  Continuing with the color wheel model, one could then combine yellow and purple, which essentially means that all three primary colors would be present at once.  Since paints work by absorbing light, having all three primaries together produces a black or gray color (see subtractive color).  In more recent painting manuals, the more precise subtractive primary colors are magenta, cyan and yellow.  See many graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors 

cyan  noun  a greenish-blue colorused in photography and color printing of one of the primary colors  cyan- or cyano-  combining form  

1dark blue bluecyanobacterium  

2cyanogencyanide

3cyanidecyanogenetic  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyan 

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Bamboo is a type of grass plant, and the Latin name is bambusa.  It is the fastest-growing plant in the world.  The Chinese cook the sprouts with meat such as chicken, beef and pork.  They can be added as an additional vegetable in stir-fry dishes.  Bamboo is found in almost all subtropical and tropical regions, in places with a humid climate.  The crispy, slightly sweet flesh of the sprouts is great for use in a variety of soups, salads, or stews.  You can also try stewing them with mushrooms or cabbage.   Experienced chefs advise not to boil bamboo shoots for too long.  This is because prolonged heat treatment will deteriorate their taste and destroy the nutrients.  Link to recipes at https://www.honestfoodtalks.com/bamboo-shoots-guide/ 

A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines.  The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm.  The third and fourth lines should only have five to seven syllables; they too must rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.  https://examples.yourdictionary.com/limerick-examples.html 

A wonderful bird is the pelican;
His beak can hold more than his belican.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week,
Though I’m damned if I know how the helican!  Dixon Lanier Merritt  

https://bookstr.com/article/21-hilarious-limericks-for-national-limerick-day/  May 12 is National Limerick Day

Climate fiction (sometimes shortened as cli-fi) is literature that deals with climate change and global warming.  Not necessarily speculative in nature, works may take place in the world as we know it or in the near future.  The genre frequently includes science fiction and dystopian or utopian themes, imagining the potential futures based on how humanity responds to the impacts of climate change.   The term "cli-fi" first came into mainstream media use on April 20, 2013 when NPR did a five-minute radio segment on Weekend Edition Saturday to describe novels and movies that deal with human-induced climate change.  Historically, there have been any number of literary works that dealt with climate change in earlier times as well.  See examples of cli-fi at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction 

Onscreen, Edward G. Robinson was a hardened criminal, the quintessential Depression-era gangster who inspired a string of cinematic bad guys.  Offscreen, he was a sensitive lover of the arts with a museum-level collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, some African sculpture, and a handful of canvases by emerging contemporary artists (such as Israeli painter Reuven Rubin and a young 

Frida Kahlo).  Robinson’s illustrious collection began modestly a few years before he played Little Caesar, with a painting of a cow.  The bovine portrait by an anonymous artist cost two dollars at auction, and the actor proudly installed it alongside his reproductions of works by Rembrandt and Henri Matisse.  Years later, when Robinson could afford an actual Matisse (he bought a dinner scene by the artist because it reminded him of his mother’s Friday night dinners), the cow looked out of place but still had sentimental value, so he hung it in a back room.  He started out working primarily on stage, made the jump to the silver screen, and became a regular presence on radio and television—where he narrated documentary series about art, competed against fellow art-collecting actor Vincent Price on an art history-themed run of The $64,000 Question, and had a 1967 cameo appearance on Batman.  With every gig, his earnings snowballed and he earned millions per year in current dollars.  One of the great tragedies of Robinson’s life was being forced to sell his entire collection in the 1950s in order to settle his divorce from Gladys.  He sold it all to shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos for $3.5 million, with the understanding that he could eventually buy some of the paintings back.  In time, with his second wife Jane, he repurchased 14 works from his original collection and started over.  Robinson’s appetite for art might have kept the aging actor in show business, appearing in films until the year of his death at age 79, in 1973.  Karen Chernick  See pictures at https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hollywood-gangster-one-frida-kahlos-first-collectors 

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; 1893–1973) was a Romanian-born American actor of stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.  He appeared in 30 Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Key Largo.  During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism, which were growing in strength in Europe in the years which led up to World War II.  His activism included contributing over $250,000 to more than 850 organizations which were involved in war relief, along with contributions to cultural, educational and religious groups.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson 

Author, journalist and political satirist P.J. O'Rourke died on February 15, 2022 at the age of 74.  O'Rourke wrote more than twenty books about a range of topics, from politics to cars, and he was a longtime panelist on the NPR show Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!  O'Rourke began his career writing for the National Lampoon, and later led the foreign affairs desk at Rolling Stone, where he covered world politics from the Persian Gulf to the Philippines.  Later in life he contributed to more conservative outlets including The Weekly Standard and served as the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute.  O'Rourke was born in Toledo, Ohio into a family, as he put it, "so normal as to be almost a statistical anomaly."  Elizabeth Blair  https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1080941812/satirist-p-j-orourke-panelist-on-nprs-wait-wait-dont-tell-me-dies-at-74 

They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Adams, historian and teacher (16 Feb 1838-1918)

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Monday, February 14, 2022

Betty Smith (born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner; 1896–1972) was an American author.  She is best known for her 1943 bestselling book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.  As a child, Smith developed an early passion for the written word, and at age eight she received an A for a school composition.  "I knew then," she was reported as saying, "that I would write a book one day."  She made great use of the then-new public library near her home on Leonard Street, and at age 11, had two poems published in a school publication.  At the University of Michigan, Smith audited a number of journalism and playwriting courses and was a student in some of the classes of Professor Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.  Under the guidance of Rowe, she wrote several plays, including the three-act "Jonica Starrs," a story of adultery and the break-up of a marriage.  The play was given a full production in Ann Arbor in June 1930, and later that same year, was performed at the Detroit Playhouse.  Smith's life reached a turning point when she won the University of Michigan's Avery Hopwood Award for a play she had written.  Sources differ whether the play was "Jonica Starrs" or "Francie Nolan," which introduced the character that was to later appear in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.  With the conferring of the Hopwood Award, Smith was invited to study drama at Yale University, where, under the tutelage of the renowned teacher George Baker, she wrote several plays during her two-year fellowship.  At this time, she met a budding playwright, Robert V. Finch, known as "Bob," who became a close confidante and companion.  With outside pressures mounting, particularly money concerns, as the fellowship had ended, her studies at Yale came to an end in the spring of 1934.  Moreover, she deeply missed her children, who had been placed with her sister's family on Long Island.

Because Smith never completed high school, she was unable to formally matriculate at the University of Michigan; she never earned a Bachelor of Arts, despite having taken more than enough courses.  And without the B.A., she was unable to earn the Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale.  In 1947, Smith's second book Tomorrow Will Be Better was published.  Set in the tenements of 1920s Brooklyn, the novel presents a realistic portrayal of young adults who seek a brighter future.  Published just four years after A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the second book naturally drew critical comparisons to the first because both novels dealt with family life in Brooklyn and the struggle with poverty.  Margy Shannon, the central character in "Tomorrow," is from a poor family with a dominant mother.  She meets and is courted by Frankie, a fellow Brooklynite, also contending with poverty.  They strive to improve their lot, attempting to overcome the many personal and financial obstacles in their way.  Tomorrow was published to mixed reviews.  It received a positive notice in The New York Times, which noted the work is noticeably different in spirit from Smith's first book and praised Smith's writing style as "remarkable for its unpretentiousness—an easy, tidy, direct kind of prose which calls no attention to itself."  Other reviews, however, were less warm, often judging the novel as "gloomy."  Maggie-Now was published in 1958.  Joy in the Morning, Smith's fourth, and last, novel appeared in 1963.  The novel was adapted into the 1965 film of the same name.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Smith 

PARAPHRASES from Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith  *  better to remember things the way they should have been  *  learn to make and take jokes  *  the waiter presented the tray of pastries as if offering diamonds and rubies to a queen  *  prickling smell of browning onion smells and crisp crack of eggs broken against a pan’s rim--these were the symphony of home  *  many a true word is spoken as a joke  *  understanding doesn’t always indicate sanction, conversion or forgiveness  *  she abhorred the vacuum made by unfinished sentences 

New Jersey passed the Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act and Regulations in 1949, a response to the perceived risk associated with the rapidly growing number of motorists having to handle highly flammable gasoline.  On paper, before the downfall of casual smoking and before pumps were fitted with an assortment of safety features, that was, in all fairness, potentially risky.  We still see station fires, and they’re terrifying on the rare occasions that they happen.  The Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act mandates that “no person dispense fuel at a gasoline station, unless that person is an attendant who has received fuel dispensing instructions.”  If you are caught breaking this law, you could “be liable for a penalty of not less than $50 and not more than $250 for a first offense and not more than $500 for each subsequent offense.”  Oregon has long been the only other U.S. state with a similar widespread law against self-service, adopted in 1951.  The state voted on repealing the law in 1982, but the measure didn’t pass.  Since then, Oregon state law has been amended to allow some non-certified motorists in certain counties, under certain conditions, in low-population areas or during particular periods of the day, to now pump their own fuel unattended.  Justin T. Westbrook  https://jalopnik.com/heres-why-some-places-in-the-u-s-still-wont-let-you-pu-1846694716 

February 13 is World Radio Day, which is recognized by the United Nations to highlight the importance of radio for sharing information, promoting diversity of ideas, and reaching remote communities and vulnerable people, and its role in emergency communication during disastersUnited Nations Radio was established February 13, 1946.  Wiktionary 

Team Fluff won the 18th Puppy Bowl on Sunday against Team Ruff by a slim margin with a final score of 73-69 after a face-off that lasted three hours.  The bowl featured more than 100 adoptable puppy players from 67 shelters and rescues from 33 states, according to Discovery.  Sandra Gonzalez and Emma Tucker  See pictures at   https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/entertainment/puppy-bowl/index.html 

Cooper Kupp secured eight catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns and was Super Bowl MVP on February 13, 2022.  The Washington Post  The Rams’ 23-20 win over the Bengals was transformed by one player:  Aaron Donald, who had two sacks and put constant pressure on Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow.  The Wall Street Journal 

For one human being to love another:  that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist (4 Dec 1875-1926) 

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Friday, February 11, 2022

Frederic Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces.  With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.  Nash was born in RyeNew York, the son of Mattie (Chenault) and Edmund Strudwick Nash.  His father owned and operated an import–export company, and because of business obligations, the family often relocated. Nash was descended from Abner Nash, an early governor of North Carolina.  The city of Nashville, Tennessee, was named after Abner's brother, Francis, a Revolutionary War general.  Throughout his life, Nash loved to rhyme.  "I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old," he stated in a 1958 news interview.  He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist but admitted that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task.  His family lived briefly in Savannah, Georgia, in a carriage house owned by Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA. He wrote a poem about Mrs. Low's House.  Nash was the lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus and collaborated with the librettist S. J. Perelman and the composer Kurt Weill.  The show included the notable song "Speak Low."  He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.  Nash and his love of the Baltimore Colts were featured in the December 13, 1968 issue of Life, with several poems about the American football team matched to full-page pictures.  Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed.  The original recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940s, with Noël Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash 

The origins of the word barbecue come from the word barbacoa, found in many Amerindian languages spoken by indigenous people throughout modern-day Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and eastern Venezuela.  While there isn’t one specific historical definition of barbacoa it's often referred to some aspect of cooking outside, whether it be the act itself or in other cases, the wooden racks used in cooking.  In Mexico today, barbacoa is most notably recognized as a term to describe meat, often whole lamb, mutton or goat, that's cooked over an open fire or, more traditionally, in a fire-pit covered with maguey (agave) leaves.  In this more traditional method, the first thing that goes in the fire pit is a grill placed over a pot filled with a little liquid (like water or pulque, an alcohol distilled from the sap of the maguey plant).  The meat is placed onto the grill and covered with maguey leaves and then the whole pit is covered with a lid and sealed.  While the meat roasts, it's steamed and braised by its own juices and infused with the flavor of the maguey leaves.  As a result, you're left with otherworldly levels of tenderness and fall-off-the bone meat.  Justin Sullivan  https://www.delish.com/cooking/a36820852/mexican-barbacoa-guide/ 

Barbacoa is believed to have originated centuries ago in Barbados, an island country in the West Antilles of the Caribbean.  The word “barbados” is derived from the words “Los Barbadoes” meaning “the bearded ones,” a name created by 16th century Portuguese explorers to describe giant bearded fig trees covering many Caribbean islands.  It is widely believed the West Indies native Taino people, a subgroup of the South American Arawaks, first used green, fire-resistant bearded fig branches for cooking.  They marinated foods in tropical herbs and spices to enhance natural flavors and preserve them after cooking.  The Tainos called their preparations “barabicu,” or “sacred firepit,” that over time became “barbecue.”  These cooking methods were superb at keeping their foods from prematurely spoiling.  The Barbacoa style of cooking was eventually taken to Mexico, where it still refers to meats slow-roasted over an open fire, or more traditionally, in a fire pit covered with succulent leaves of the maguey plant (also known as agave or century plant.)  http://www.aquiestexcoco.com/about-aqui-es-texcoco/history-of-barbacoa/ 

Award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, fine artist, and educator Ashley Bryan, widely known for his passion for poetry and vibrant retellings of folktales and spirituals rooted in the Black oral tradition, died peacefully on February 4, 2022 at the age of 98.  Bryan was born July 13, 1923 in Harlem to parents who had immigrated from the British West Indies (now Antigua) following WWI.  Though times were tough when he was growing up in the Bronx, Bryan noted that his father, a printer and musician, and his mother, a seamstress, had been hugely supportive of his early love of art.  “I can’t remember a time when I have not been drawing and painting,” Bryan wrote in his autobiographical essay for Something About the Author.   His father brought home paper from his job for Bryan to draw on, and his mother had a flair for crafting the flowers she missed from her homeland out of cut paper.  Bryan wrote that there was always “music and color” in their family’s apartment.  From the ages of 10 to 12, during the Depression, Bryan further developed his drawing skills when he and his five siblings were able to take free art, drawing, and piano lessons provided by artists working in the Works Progress Administration.  Bryan took advantage of the G.I. Bill to enroll in Columbia University and pursued a degree in philosophy, which he earned in 1950.  Following his graduation from Columbia, Bryan additionally used the G.I. Bill to study art in Europe including at the Université d’Aix-Marseille in France; he also received a Fulbright grant to study at the University of Freiburg in Germany.  Read Nikki Giovanni’s poem An Angel Like Ashley and see pictures at https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/88490-obituary-ashley-bryan.html 

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind, and tide. . . .  I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.  What a source of power!  I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. - Thomas Edison, inventor (10 Feb 1847-1931) 

digon  noun  from di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) +‎ -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).  (plural digons)  (geometry) polygon having two edges and two verticesquotations ▼  Synonyms:  bianglebigon(less common) diangle  (graph theory)  pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.  A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph. 

February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which is recognized by the United Nations to highlight the critical role that women and girls play in science and technology communities. 

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