TODAY - July 10


NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS
ON: JULY 10

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 23 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 12 minutes – from 04.44 to 21.56.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called CANUTE THE KING’s DAY. The reason is that it was on this very day in 1086 that the Danish king Knud den Hellige ( Holy Canute ) was killed in Sct. Alban’s church in the city of Odense. The murderers were leaders of a revolution against the king. He had without success tried to find refuge in the church.

Canute is not known to have done anything, which was specifically religious or holy. But his brother king Erik Ejegod still succeeded in having him made a saint in the year 1101.

An old Danish weather warning says that Drought on Canute the King’s Day will make the farmers sad.   This means that if it is very dry today the harvest will be bad.

In Belgium this day’s name is BIENHEUREUSE AMANDINE DE COMPGNONS – after a missionary and her 6 colleagues, who were killed in 1900 in China during the Boxer rebellion.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1991:  Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as president of Russia.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Audi - where does that name come from? And it means?

As everybody knows this is the name of a very well known and popular German car.
The founder of the company in the beginning of the 20th century was August Horch. He had earlier worked for Karl Benz. Later he started his own company in his own name. He sold this company and started the company, which built the Audi car. But he could not use his own name Horch, because it belonged to his previous company.  Then he started thinking.  Horchen in German is a verb meaning to listen very carefully. And in Latin this is:  audire.  Hocus pocus:  the new car got the name AUDI.  A name it carries to this day-
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QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Ladbergen:   where is that?  And what is a key historical event linked to this place?

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 anatomically difficult and always somewhat ridiculous to clap yourself
             congratulating on your own shoulder.

             This was said by the British conservative prime minister Edward Heath.

2.  Today’s quote:

        Of the women I have fancied in my life I in particular remember their eyes and
             their voice.

             Who among today's personalities has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1509:  Jean Calvin  ( died 1564 )

1606:  Corfitz Ulfeldt  ( died 1664 )

1871:  Marcel Proust  ( died 1922 )

1903:  Werner Best  ( died 1989 )

1943:  Arthur Ashe  ( died 1993 )

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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