Tales from childhood: Timothy.

Timothy was a young man. He celebrated his twenty sixth birthday. There were guests. It was a good holiday.

Timothy had a wife and a baby daughter. He had a job, too. Timothy was a good and kind man.

Raymond and his family valued Timothy and his personal qualities. He was a friend of this family Maria's younger brother, Raymond's wife.

Once Timothy had an accident at work and he became ugly. His wife couldn't accept him the way he became. So, she left him and took their baby.

But Raymond's family was able to accept Timothy and continued to communicate with him. Also, they often invited him to visit.

"Grandmother was right, this family should be taken as an example." Sophie thought.

Muses.

The Muses (μοῦσα) (μοῦσαι) were goddesses of inspiration in Greek mythology. They were inspired different types of arts, such as: literature, poetry, science, creativity, and etc. The Muses were the source of art and knowledge for creative people.

Their parents were Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne, or their mother was Harmonia (Ἁρμονία).

There were nine muses, they were responsible for different types of arts and sciences.

Roman mosaic.

Roman mosaic is a type of art. It appeared in Ancient Rome.

This type of art its own technology. Roman mosaic used colored stones, cobalt glass, marble, limestone, slate.

There are many art works with Roman mosaic.

This mosaic depicted the plots of ancient myths and legends. Different gods and goddesses became the heroes of the art of Roman mosaic.

There are examples of this art form in museums.

Tales from childhood: People and family.

Sophie knew many people. They all were very different.

She was surprised that one girl lived with her uncle, Raymond. It turns out that this man had a wife and son. In this family, everything suited everyone.

Also, his wife Maria had a younger brother. He was a simple young man, Timothy. Her brother worked at the factory. His work was quite hard.

Timothy has already managed his own family. He had a wife and a one-year-old daughter. These families interacted frequently.

Sophie and her friends talked with Raymond's niece from this family who was eight years old. This child was very independent for her age. She always made her own decisions.

Timothy was both a relative and a friend of this family. Raymond was friends with him. Timothy supported people in different situations.

"You can take an example from such people," Sophie's granny said.

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Dessert with jam and topping.

Mnemosyne.

Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) was the goddess of memory in Ancient Greece. She was a Titaness.

Uranus (Οὐρανός) and Gaia (Γαῖα) were Mnemosyne's parents. Also, she had several siblings. Among them were Titans, Cyclopes, and other creatures, gods, and goddesses.

Mnemosyne was Zeus's wife. They had nine children, Muses: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Euterpe (lyric poetry), Erato (love poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (hymns), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), Urania (astronomy).

There are myths and legends about this goddess.

Artists and sculptors created paintings and sculptures about Mnemosyne, goddess of memory.

Plants and flowers in the yard.

Great people: Ptolemy.

Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος) (Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a scientist. He studied different fields, such as: mathematics, astronomy, astrology (ἀστρολογία), geography.

Ptolemy was born in Egypt, Roman Empire, c. 100 AD.

Claudius Ptolemy influenced science and scientists.

He died in Alexandria, Egypt, Roman Empire, c. 170 AD.

Recipe of homemade buns with cottage cheese.

Ingredients for dough:

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

Ingredients for stuffing:

Cottage cheese-500 g

Egg-1

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.

How our mix rise add milk and margarine. Melt margarine with milk.

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

Leave dough in bowl about 3-4 hours.

Make balls from dough.

For stuffing mix in one bowl cottage cheese and egg. Add it to the buns. Also, you can add raisins, if you want. Warm oven 218.333 °C (425 °F). Bake about 30 minutes with temperature 148.889 °C (300 °F).

Bon Appetit!

Literature. Part ninety.

                                        "Five Peas from a Pod" by Hans Christian Andersen.

Once upon a time there were five peas in a pod. Peas and pod were green. So, they were sure that all world is green, too. Then peas and pod turned yellow.

When the crop was harvested, all five peas fell into the boy's hand. He shot them from the peashooter.

After that, five peas flew in different directions. Someone flew away. The other was on the roof of the house.

A woman with a sick daughter lived in this house. The daughter recovered when she saw that the pea had sprouted near with window.

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Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy five.

                                                             Jack London.

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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

Source of information:

https://www.biography.com/writer/jack-london and

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1240.Jack_London