TODAY - July 14


NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS
ON: JULY 14

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 33 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 2 minutes – from 04.50 to 21.52.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is BONAVENTURA’s DAY. He lived in 1221-74 and was a bishop in the Italian city of Albano. At the same time he was a cardinal. In his youth he was mortally ill. But the legend says that he recovered when his mother promised Saint Fransisco that her son would become a monk in his monastery. So he did until he was elected bishop.

Bonaventura was one of the most significant theologians in the scolastic school in Christianity. He became a saint in 1482.

This day is also the BASTILLE DAY. This was the day when the French revolution started in 1789. The special event was that the masses conquered the Bastille prison in Paris. Today is a holiday in France.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT CAMILLE DES LELLIS – after a Catholic priest, who lived in the years 1550-1614.  He started the Camillion order, which in particular looked after the sick.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1941: British troops conquer Syria.
TODAY’s QUESTION:

French visit - what's the origin of this expression? And what does it mean?

This is an old expression in many countries such as France, England, Germany and the Netherlands. It meant that somebody came for a short visit, said something non-important and left without saying goodbye. And it was at the time not considered to be bad manners.

In France and Germany the expression English Visit was now and then used with the same meaning.

Today a French visit means that you make a very brief visit – and leave very quickly again.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Gentlemen's agreement -  where does that expression come from? And it means?


47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        I love treason. But I hate traitors.

             This was once said by Julius Caesar.

2.  Today’s quote:

        It's better to talk above peoples' heads than behind their backs.

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1862:  Gustav Klimt ( died 1918 )

1912:  Woody Guthrie  ( died 1967 )

1913:  Gerald Ford  ( died 2006 )

1918:  Ingmar Bergman  ( died 2007 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1881:  Billy the Kid  ( 22 years )

1887:  Alfred Krupp  ( 75 years )

1965:  Adlai Stevenson II  ( 65 years )


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

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