Saturday, September 17, 2022
Sunday, September 11, 2022
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.
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Sunday, September 4, 2022
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.
Saturday, September 3, 2022
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!
Friday, September 2, 2022
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.
Source of image:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/green-pea-pod-five-little-peas-2171724005
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy five.
Jack London.
Source of image:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/jack-london-vector-sketch-illustration-portrait-1215810589
“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