TODAY - June 13


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JUNE 13

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 29 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 27 minutes – from 05.30 to 21.56.

See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

This day’s name is CYRILLUS’ DAY. He was a bishop in Alexandria in present day Egypt. At the same time he was very active in trying to make the Slave people Christians, and he has even given name to their alphabet, the Cyrillic a. He was also a very important Father of the Church.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT ANTOINE DE PADOUE.  He was a Portuguese Franciscan priest. He lived from 1195 to 1231, when he died in Padova in Italy.


TODAY’s EVENT:

1990:  The formal removal of the Berlin Wall starts.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Place where the pepper grows – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

To be sent to the place where the pepper is growing is a very old expression, which originally comes from France.  They had – and still have – an area in the north of South America called Guyana. It has always had a very tough and unpleasant tropical climate, where nobody wanted to go. At the same time a lot of pepper is growing in the area. The name Cayenne pepper is very well known.  During and after the French revolution from 1789 prisoners were sent to Guyana to terrible conditions.

So the threat to be sent to the place where the pepper grows comes from that habit.
Today the expression is used in an indirect sense. If anybody tells you that he or she wants to send you there it is probably not one of your best friends. Or at least not any longer!

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Pour oil on stormy waters – where does that come from? And it means?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

It is said that politics is the second oldest profession in the world. I have learned that it has a lot in common with the oldest one.

This was once said by the American president Ronald Reagan.

2.  Today’s quote:

When do you have time to reflect ?

Who among today’s persons said that when he saw the Danish prime minister Jens Otto Krag’s diary?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1870:  Jules Bordet  ( died 1961 )
1893:  Dorothy Sayers  ( died 1957 )
1901:  Tage Erlander  ( died 1985 )
1944:  Ban ki-moon

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1986:  Benny Goodman  ( 75 years )
1992:  Erik Paaske  ( 59 years )

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
niels4europe@gmail.com  
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   +  EUROPE-AT-WORK   www.europe-at-work.be  

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