TODAY - June 27


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JUNE 27

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 2 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 32 minutes – from 04.32 to 22.04.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called SEVEN SLEEPERS’ DAY.  It comes from the legend about seven Christian brothers, who were hiding in a mountain cave to get away from the soldiers of the Roman emperor Decius. When they were discovered the soldier blocked the entrance to the cave to make sure that the brothers would starve to death.  When some shepherds two hundred years later ( 447 AC) found the seven brothers they woke up again due to the fresh air. After that they could happily die (again), when they found out that Christianity in the meantime had won.

Old Danish weather warnings for this day say, that rain on seven sleepers’ day will bring a wet harvest – and sunshine on this day is a warning of sunshine during the coming weeks.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT CYRILLE D’ALEXANDRIE.  He was a patriarch in Alexandria and was very influential in the Roman empire at the time. He wrote several books.  He lived in the years 378-444.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1959: The Swedish boxer Ingmar Johansson become world champion in heavyweight with a victory over the American boxer Floyd Patterson.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Vessel of the Danaids – what is that? And what does it mean?

Danaos or Danaus was in Greek mythology the son of a king in Egypt. He had 50 daughters – called the Danaids. They were forced to marry 50 men. But when 49 of then during the wedding night killed their husbands they were afterwards condemned to pour water into a vessel, which had no bottom. And according to the legend they continue to do that all the time until this very day.   In other words:  this is a work which never ends.

So the expression the vessel of the Danaids refers to a task, which is futile and useless, and which never ends.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Volapük – what is that? And what is the history?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Loyalty should never go so far that you vote against your conscience. If you do so your credibility as a politician will diminish.

            This was said by the Danish liberal politician and later secretary-general of
             OECD, Thorkil Kristensen.

2.  Today’s quote:

Science has perhaps found a cure against most evils, but it has not found a medication against the worst of them all – the apathy of people.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1854:  Niels Neergaard  ( died 1936 )
1880:  Helen Keller  ( died 1968 )
1941:  Krzysztof Kieslowski  ( died 1996 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:
       1844:  Joseph Smith  ( 39 years )   
           1999:  Georgios Papadopoulos  ( 80 years )
           2001:  Jack Lemmon ( 76 years )


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

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