Thursday, February 20, 2025

Terpsichore.

Terpsichore (Τερψιχόρη) was one of the Muses (Μοῦσαι) (Moûsai) (Μούσες) (Múses) in Greek myths and legends. She was a goddess of dance and chorus in Ancient Greece. Her name means "of relating to dance.

Zeus and Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) were Terpsichore's parents.

Lyre was her symbol.

Terpsichore had several siblings and consorts.

Linus (Λῖνος) (Linos), Biston (Βίστων), and Parthenope (Παρθενόπη) were her children.



Thursday, February 13, 2025

Homo ergaster.

Homo ergaster is a type of extinct humans. They lived in Africa.

Homo ergaster, also known as "working man" had his own characteristics.

These type of people had relations with other archaic humans.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/skull-homo-ergaster-early-pleistocene-african-2024917568



Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Oileus.

Oileus (Ὀϊλεύς) (Oī̈leús) was known as the king of Locris (Λοκρίς) (Lokrís) in Greek mythology. Also, he was an Argonaut (Ἀργοναῦται) (Argonaûtai). 

Hodoedocus (Ὁδοίδοκος) was Oileus' father. Agrianome (Ἀγριανόμη) was his mother.

Oileus had a wife named Eriopis (Ἐριῶπις). They had a son Ajax (Αἴας) (Aias) the Lesser.

Oileus was wounded in the shoulder by Stymphalian Birds (Στυμφαλίδες ὄρνιθες) (Stymfalídes Órnithes).




Sunday, February 9, 2025

Tales from childhood: Imaginary friend.

Hi, people! I'm Angela. I like my new family. We are all friends with Timothy. He is a relative in this family.

There are people who think that Timothy isn't real. For example, my old family. But he is a real young man. Timothy had surgery.

He is a very good person. Timothy can tell funny stories and jokes. We all support him.

"Angela probably has an imaginary friend," my Mom said.

"It's all a child's imagination," my Dad said.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/woman-sits-hugging-person-sitting-next-2482985499



Saturday, February 1, 2025

Recipe of homemade dough for sweet pastry.

Ingredients:

Flour-800 g

Milk-200 g

Eggs-2

Sugar-100 g

Margarine-800 g

Sour cream-1 table spoon

Salt-half of tea spoon

Baking powder-1 tea spoon

Yeast-1 tea spoon


100 g of warm milk, sugar, flour, yeast, and salt mix in one bowl



Leave in warm place about 30 min. Consistency must be how thick cream. Mix 2 eggs.



Add to this mix baking powder. Remaining eggs, sugar, salt, margarine, sour cream, and make dough.

Leave dough in bowl about 3-4 hours.




Later mix your dough and cook pastry.

Great people: Jonathan Swift.

Jonathan Swift was a writer. He was born on November 30, 1667, in Dublin, Ireland.

Satire was his genre.

Gulliver's Travels (1726) was one of Swift's notable works. This novel was translated to other languages.

He died on October 19, 1745, in Dublin, Ireland.




Literature. Part hundred nineteen.

                                             "The Devoted Friend" by Oscar Wilde.

Once upon a time animals told about Hans and his friend Miller.

Hans was the young and worked in the garden.

Miller visited Hans during spring. They didn't forget each other.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/oscar-wilde-irish-writer-poet-one-2402532413




Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred four.

                                                    Johannes Kepler.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/great-german-astronomer-scientist-kepler-1543106636


“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”

“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”

“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/johannes-kepler-quotes