TODAY - June 6
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JUNE 6
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 22 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 19 minutes – from 05.32 to 21.51.
See more – also in English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
Today is called NOBERTUS’ DAY. He was the son of rich German parents, and like them he enjoyed a free and pleasant life during his youth. When he was 35 years of age he was one day hit by a lightening, when he was riding his horse. Because of that he decided to change his life completely. He joined a monastery as a monk, and later on he became archbishop of Magdeburg. He died in 1134.
This day is also one of the 32 so-called Tycho Brahe’s days. It was days which the Danish-Czech astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century because of his calculations considered to be unfortunate ( what old nonsense L )
And today is also one of the old so-called Tamperdays. They were four yearly days celebrated by the Catholic church in the old days. On those days the Tamper Court was in session. It was the court for all matters concerning marriages. It existed in the period 1542 -1797.
In Belgium the day is called almost the same: SAINT NORBERT. He was born in 1075 in
The Netherlands and – as mentioned – died in Magdeburg in Germany in 11.34.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1944: The allied countries started the invasion of German occupied Normandy in France ( code names: D-Day and Operation Overlord ).
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 Guyane. 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 Cheyenne pepper is very well known. During and after the French revolution from 1789 prisoners were sent to Guyane 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:
Where does SPAIN
have its name from?
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 said by the American president Ronald Reagan.
2.
Today’s quote:
The emancipation
of the laymen – that is democracy?
Who has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1799: Alexandr Pushkin ( died 1837 )
1869: Siegfried Wagner ( died 1930 )
1875: Thomas Mann ( died 1955 )
4. Famous
people died on this day:
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
niels4europe@gmail.com
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer + EUROPE-AT-WORK www.europe-at-work.be
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