TODAY - June 28

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JUNE 28

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 3 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’s name is ELEONORA’s DAY.  Until around 1800 it was called LEO’s DAY (after pope Leo II, who died in 684 AC). Why the Danish almanac changed to Eleonora is not known.

Many people think that it comes from Caroline Amalie (Eleonora)  - who lived 1796-1881, princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. She was later married to the Danish king Christian VIII.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT IRÉNÉE  ( Iréné de Lyon ). He was a Greek Christian, born in Smyrna ( now Izmir in Turkey ) in 130.  He became bishop in Lyon (Lugdunum) in France in the years 177-202.  He had a lot of influence on the development of the early stages of Christianity.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were murdered in Sarajevo. This was the start of World War I.


TODAY’s QUESTION:

Volapük – what is that? And what is the history?

This is an artificial language created by the catholic German priest Johan Martin Schleyer in 1879. He claimed that God in a dream had asked him to create a new international language.

He built his language on words and expressions from English, German and French. And very soon more than a hundred thousand Volaküpists were supporting the new language.

International Volapük congresses were held in 1884 and 1887 (in Germany) and in 1889 (in Paris). The language used at these congresses was German, not Volapük. In 1889 you had 283 Volapük clubs and 25 magazines. And 316 text books existed in 25 languages.

Around the turn of the century the language more or less disappeared again. It was too complicated and did not develop. And the rise of the other international artificial language Esperanto was another reason.  Though a new and simpler form was created in 1931 it did not change much. And today less than a 100 persons speak Volapük.

As an example you can see how the Lord’s Prayer looks like in Volapük:

O Fat obas, kel binol in süls!
Nem olik pasaludükonöd!
Regän ola kömonöd!
Vil olik jenonöd,
äsä in sül, i su tal!
Givolös obes adelo bodi aldelik obsik!
E pardolös obes döbotis obsik,
äsä i obs pardobs utanes, kels edöbons kol obs.
E no blufodolös obis,
ab livükolös obis de bad!

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Magna Carta – what is that? And what is its importance?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’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.

            This was said by the American deaf-blind author and political activist Helen
             Keller.

2.  Today’s quote:

Insults are the arguments used by people, who are wrong.

Whom among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1491:  King Henrik  VIII  ( died 1547 )
1577:  Peter Paul Rubens  ( died 1640 )
1712:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau  ( died 1778 )
1912:  Sergiu Celibidache  ( died 1996 )
1926:  Mel Brooks

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1994:  Ulrik Neumann  ( 76 år )


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

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