Traces the origin of the names of the days and months and retells the myths connected with each.

Why are there 7 days in a week and 12 months in a year? What do stars have to do with it? This book tells you all about it. Long ago, people looked up at the night sky. They made up stories to explain the speckled dots of lights. The ancients divided up the year into weeks and days. They assigned "stars" to days and groups of stars to months. We may not know all the stories they told, but we still tell time the same way. Inside this book are the reasons why.

The women of Church at Viera are a diverse, multi-generational group living on the Space Coast of Florida. Each writer is living a unique life and has the desire to share a personal life story of faith and hope. Our prayer is that these stories will inspire others and bring the reader closer to God.

"A series of sketches of the lives and exploits of the early voyagers to Australia" [introductory paragraph to 'William Dampier: navigator'].