TODAY - June 9


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JUNE 9


New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 25 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 23 minutes – from 05.31 to 21.54.
See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk


TODAY’s NAME:
Today’s name is PRIMUS’ DAY. He was together with his brother Felicianus a Christian Roman, who tried to convert other Romans to Christianity. At the same time he refused to make sacrifices for the emperor – also when liquid lead was poured into his mouth. He was then thrown before lions and bears, but they refused to touch him. At the end the emperor’s soldiers had to behead him in order to kill him.



It all happened during emperor Diocletian’s persecutions of the Christians around 300 AC.



In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT EPHREM – after a deacon in Syria. He lived in the years 306-73.



TODAY’s EVENT:

1934:  Donald Duck is presented for the first time. It happens in the film “The Wise Little Hen”.



TODAY’s QUESTION:
What is a LIGHT YEAR?

Most people have heard the expression a light year.  This is not a light, which is able burn a whole year!

It is used to measure distances. A light year is the distance which light will move in a year. And as light has a lot of speed – 300.000 km a second – it will in a year move 9500 billion km.
You use light years to measure distances in astronomy, because the distances between the celestial bodies are enormous. As an example you can take the distance between our sun and its closest neighbour in our Milky Way, the Proxima Centauri. The distance between them is 4 light years.

You also talk about light minutes. This is the distance light moves in 1 minute:  18 mio. km. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 8 light minutes, about 150 mio. km.

You may also express it in another way:  when you see the sun you do not see it, where is is right now. You see it, where it was 8 minutes ago.    Or if you look at the ORION on the night sky you do not see it, where it is right now. It is 323 light years away, so you see it, where is was in year 1697.

And then you also have a light second.  It is the distance light moves in 1 second. This is about 300.000 km.  Our moon is a bit more than 1 light second away.

These are huge figures. That is why you now and then also use the expression astronomic figures about huge sums or numbers.


QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Verdun 1916 – 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:


The biggest annoyance among the feminists is the man’s beard. Why?  Because that they cannot copy!


            This was said by the American author Henry Miller.
2.  Today’s quote:


There are books where the back and the cover are the most interesting parts.

Who among today’s persons has said that?


3.  Famous people born on this day:


1672:  Peter the Great  ( died 1725 )



1849:  Michael Ancher  ( died 1923 )



1865:  Carl Nielsen  ( died 1931 )



1893:  Cole Porter ( died 1964 )



1934:  Donald Duck  J



4.  Famous people died on this day:


68:      Nero  ( 31 years )



1870:  Charles Dickens  ( 58 years )



1964:  Max Beaverbrook  ( 85 years )



Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

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

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