TODAY - July 17


NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS

ON: JULY 17

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 41 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 53 minutes – from 04.54 to 21.48.

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


TODAY’s NAME:

Today's name is ALEXIUS' DAY.  He was a young Roman, who decided to leave his rich parents' house, give all his belongings to the poor and to live the rest of his life as a beggar and preach Christianity. He died 34 years later in 430 AD.

Alexius is the patron of the beggars, the pilgrims and the belt makers.
This day is also one of the 32 so-called Tycho Brahe's Days. They are days, which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century based on his calculations considered to be particularly unfortunate.   What old nonsense :-)

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT FRÉDÉGAND. He was born in Ireland and became a missionary and an abbot at Kerkelodor Abbey near Antwerp. He died in Deurne near Antwerp in 740.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1918: Zar Nikolai II and his family were murdered by the bolcheviks.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Albatros - what is that ?

This is one of the world's biggest sea birds. There are two different types: one in the northern Pacific and one in the southern Pacific. Their wing span is between 2,9 and 3.3 meters. And their weight can be up to 8,5 kg.  The spend by far the largest part of their time at sea. They are fantastic flyers.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Amazones - who are they? And what is their history?
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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

                  What is called the conscience of the nation has no room in the                         breast of the author. If it had his breast would be a huge                                   apparatus.

                  This was once said by the German author Heinrich Böll.

2.  Today’s quote:

                  The English lady in waiting has dreams about a knight on a fiery                     horse coming to abduct her - but has normally at the end to live                       with the horse alone and will be happy about that.

                  Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

    1787:  Friedrich Krupp  ( died 1826 )
    1935:  Billie Holiday ( alias Eleonora Fagan )  ( died 1959 )
    1935:  Donald Sutherland
    1952:  David Hasselhoff 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

    1790:  Adam Smith  ( 67 years )
    1967:  John Coltrane  ( 39 years ) 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

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