TODAY - July 18


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JULY 18

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 44 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 51 minutes – from 04.56 to 21.46.

See more – also in English – about where you are.

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called ARNOLFUS' DAY. He was originally a senior official in the court of the Frankish king Chlota II. But when his wife joined a monastery, he also gets a post in the church. He becomes bishop in Metz, and later he lives as a hermit.

He dies in 641 AD. And the legend tells, that many wonders happened near his grave.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT FRÉDÉRIC – after a bishop in Utrecht, who was murdered in 838.


TODAY’s EVENT:

1953:  Elvis Presley makes his first record "My Happiness". It was a present to his mother.
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TODAY’s QUESTION:

Amazones - who are they? And what is their history?

They are female warriors in the Greek mythology, coming from Anatolia. They supported Troy in its wars with the Greeks. They are very brave, brutal and aggressive. Their left breast has been cut off. They meet men only once a year, and all male babies are killed.

The Amazon river carries their name, because one of the first explorers there believed that amazones were shooting at him from the land, when he was sailing in his boat on the river.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Bonnie and Clyde - who were they? And 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 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.

 This was once said by Donald Sutherland.

2.  Today’s quote:

 A good head and a warm heart is a formidable combination!    

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1918:  Nelson Mandela ( died 2013)

1921:  John Glenn  ( died 2016 )

1950:  Richard Branson


4.  Famous people died on this day:

        1817:  Jane Austen  ( 43 years )

             1889:  Elvira Madigan ( alias Hedvig Jensen ) and Sixten Sparre  (21 and 34 years)

             1892:  Thomas Cook  ( 84 years )

         

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

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

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