TODAY - June 29


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JUNE 29

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 4 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 31 minutes – from 04.33 to 22.04.

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

TODAY’s NAME:
This day’s name is PETER AND PAUL’s DAY.  It refers to the apostles Peter and Paul. They were both executed in Rome in year 64 AC by emperor Nero (37-68). After the fire of Rome all Christians were blamed and sentenced to death. The belief is that it was the emperor himself, who had started the fire.
The day’s name in Belgium is the same:  SAINTS PIERRE ET PAUL.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1149:  In the battle for the city of Antiochia, occupied by the crusaders, the muslim leader Nur-ad-Din succeeded in killing both Christian leaders, Raymond of Poitiers and Ali-ibu-Wafa.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

This old British Charter – also called the Great Charter of the Liberties – was signed on June 15, 1215 by king John and a group of rebellious English barons. The text was drafted by the archbishop of Canterbury. Its purpose was to get peace between the unpopular king and the barons.

The main articles gave protection of church rights, protection of barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations to feudal payments to the crown.

It other words: it was a charter, which concerned the king and the nobility. Not the population as such.  It was renewed almost ever since, when new kings or queens took over.

Magna Carta is by many considered to be the start of parliamentary democracy – though it has very little to do with today. It inspired many initiatives much later such as the American declaration of independence and its liberties, the French revolution and later democratic constitutions.
Now 800 years later there are still 4 copies of the original Magna Carta in existence. One of them is in the cathedral in Salisbury – very close to where it was originally written. And in good British tradition big festivities are organized now and then to celebrate the Carta, its contents and its importance.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Peter Principle – what is that? And what does it say?

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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

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

                 This was aid by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

2.  Today’s quote:

     When the future is concerned your task is not to foresee it, but to      make it    possible.

     Who among today’s personalities has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

    1798:  Giacomo Leopardi  ( died 1837 )
    1868:  George Hale  ( died 1938 )
    1886:  Robert Schuman  ( died 1963 )
    1900:  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  ( died 1944 )
    1929:  Oriana Fallaci  (  died 2006 )
    1946:  Gitte Hænning
    1963:  Anne-Sophie Mutter

4.  Famous people died on this day:
                1149:  Raymond of Antiochia  ( 34 years )
                 1967:  Jane Mansfield  ( 34 years )
                 1969:  Moise Tshombe  ( 50 years )
                 2003:  Katherine Hepburn  ( 96 years )

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com 

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