TODAY: June 16

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: June 16

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 31 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 28 minutes – from 05.29 to 21.58.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called TYCHO’s DAY.  He was a bishop on Cyprus around 400 AC, and he was in particular known for fighting against the local non-Christian Afrodite cult.  He also got the name the Healer, as a lot of miracles happened later at his grave.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINTE LUTGARDE. She was a Belgian nun. She was born in Tongeren / Tongres in 1182 and died in 1246.  Recently she had a Belgian beer names after her.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1976:  Bloodbath in Soweto in South Africa, where the policy opens fire against a student demonstration and kills 556 people.


TODAY’s QUESTION:

Blue blood – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

This saying has its origin from Castillia in Spain. The local Castillians had a more light skin than the immigrants, who were were mostly moors and jews.  Due to their light skin you could more easily see the veins through the skin. The expression locally was and is:  sangre azul, which means blue blood.

Many Castillians at the time – at least the more known ones – were from the nobility. That is why the expression blue blood later has got the meaning it has today:  people of royal or noble families.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Cravat – where does that word 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:

Moral is to fight for what you think is right and against what you think is wrong. Politics is about the same.

            This was once said by the Danish freedom fighter and later politician Frode
             Jakobsen.

2.  Today’s quote:

Of anything which happens it is only the utter distress which knows no envy.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1313:  Giovanni Boccaccio  ( died 1375 )
1851:  P.A. Alberti  ( died 1932 )
1879:  Sigurd Swane  ( died 1973 )
1890:  Stan Laurel  ( died 1965 )
1912:  Enoch Powell ( died 1998 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1958:  Imre Nagy  ( 62 years )
1977:  Wernher von Braun  ( 65 years )
1986:  Erlendur Patursson  ( 72 years )


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

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