Literature. Part nineteen.

                                          "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry.

Johsy and Sue were young artists. They were living in one room.

In one day Johsy got sick pneumonia. She was sure that she died when the last leaf of ivy fell. Tree stayed on the street and Johnsy could see it through the window.

In their house lived old man named Behrman. He was an artist, too. Mr. Behrman wanted to make a masterpiece.

Johnsy srill saw the last leaf of the ivy. Several days later Johsy became better. Then she recovered.

Mr. Behrman died from pneumonia but he drew "the last leaf".

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Great People: Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (then Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire). Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was the youngest child in the family of Nikolle and Dranafile Bojaxhiu. Her parents were Catholics. 

Nikolle Bojaxhiu died in 1919 when Agnes was eight years old. Mother and children were left alone. 

When girl was twelve years old she decided to go to India as nun and care about poor people in that country.

In 1928, Agnes Gronxha Bojaxhiu went to Ireland and joined the Sisters of Loreto. Three years later she took name Teresa and went to Calcutta. Nun taught geography in that place. On September 10, 1946, she began to help poor people in India! Two years later her community began to build hospitals and schools for ill and poor people.

So during many years Mother Teresa cared about the poor. She won Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. This nun met many famous people in her life.

She died on September 5, 1997, in Calcutta, India.

Middle Ages.

Middle Ages (Medieval) was one of the hard periods in human history. In Europe, people forgot many important things such as science, civilization, washing, and etc.

Medieval period was during the fifth to fifteenth centuries. The New World still wasn't opened, Africa and Asia were first expericing civilization.

In this hard time, religion appeared. People began to believe in one God instead of many. Artists painted pictures and icons with new saints.

Also, during Middle Ages, people expericed a terrible disease. The bubonic plague called the "Black Death". This horrible ill killed several million people.

Church was very important for medieval people. They did everything to live in heaven. People didn't notice things which happened around.

In Middle Ages human survived crisis. It took several years to recover.

P.S. After Medieval period, began a new part of human history. But I will tell you about it next time.

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