TODAY - May 30
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: MAY 30
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 10 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 8 minutes – from 05.37 to 21.44.
See more – also in English – about where you are: www.dagenslanegde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
This day is called VIGAND’s DAY. He was also called the holy Venantius of Arles ( in the south of France ). In his younger days he tried to convince his brother that he should give up his Christian faith. Instead he became himself a convinced Christian and lived as such for the rest of his life. At the end Vigand was killed in 370 AC because of his faith.
In Belgium the day’s name is SAINTE JEANNE – aften a French nun, who founded the Virgin Mary nuns’ Order for women, who had been rejected by other orders due to health and age. She lived in the years 1572-1641.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1431: 19 year old Jeanne d’Arc was burnt on the bonfire by the British in Rouen. A court ruling said that she was a witch and a traitor.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Tobil – what is it? And what’s the history behind it?
The Danish film guru Ole Olsen (1863-1943) started the world’s first film company. It happened in 1906 and was called Nordisk Film (Nordic Film Company). It still exists. So Ole Olsen actually started before Hollywood. He was in general a very energetic innovator and was always ready to try new things. And all this despite the fact that his years in school were catastrophic. He left school at the age of 10 and was word-blind. He has big problems about writing and spelling. To read about him and his life is very interesting and encouraging.
Of course, he was also very interested in one of the most important innovations of his time: the car. Or the automobile, as it was called. The first one was invented by the German engineer Karl Benz in 1886. The start of the Mercedes-Benz company. As soon as it came to Denmark Ole Olsen was one of the first owners of it. He loved to drive it. As far as we know he was not very good at driving it. But he was driving fast. And as soon as a new model was presented Ole Olsen bought one right away.
But the funny thing about his relationship to cars was that he had his own name for them. He called each of them: TOBIL. Created from the word automobile.
If this special name came about due to his word-blindness or because he liked his own name for cars, is not known. A fact was that Ole Olsen was very often seen in his TOBIL with great speed on his way from his home in Copenhagen to his summerhouse about 100 km away on the island of Zealand.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Fifth column - where
does that expression come from? And what does it mean?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
Propaganda is
the art to step other people on their toes and at the same time scream OUCH !
It was once said by the American entertainer Bob Hope.
2.
Today’s quote:
Even if you add
together all the reasonings of a man they cannot make up for the instinct of a
woman.
Who among today’s persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1431: Jeanne d’Arc ( 19 years )
1640: Peter Paul Rubens ( 63 years )
1778: Francois Voltaire ( 83 years )
1912: Wilbur Wright ( 45 years )
1960: Boris Pasternak ( 70 years )
1971: Marcel Dupré ( 85 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
niels4europe@gmail.com
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer + EUROPE-AT-WORK www.europe-at-work.be
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