TODAY - July 2
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JULY 2
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Denmark 8 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 27
minutes – from 04.35 to 22.02.
See more – also in
English – about where you are: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
This
day’s name is MARY’s VISITING DAY. It
is called like that because it was today that virgin Mary
visited her relative and girl friend Elisabeth, who some days earlier ( on June
24 ) had given birth to her baby boy John.
It was him, who later got the name John the Baptist.
According to Christian sources he was at his time the most important roaming
ascetic. In this capacity he baptised Jesus in the river Jordan. That’s where
he got his name from.
Pope
Urban VI decided in 1389 that this day should be a holiday. It was like that
also in Denmark until 1770, when the energetic reformer Struensee made an end
to it.
Concerning
old Danish weather warnings for today the old peasant traditions say that the weather on this day will continue for
the next 40 days and nights.
The day’s name in Belgium is: SAINT
MARTINIEN – after the jailer of the apostle Peter in
Rome. He became a Christian and was
later buried in Saint Peter’s Cathedral.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1981:
The small Spanish town Huescar withdraws its declaration of war against
Denmark. It was issue – probably by mistake – during the Napoleonic wars in
1809.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Danish
(pastry): what is that? And what is the history?
The historical origin of this bread is Vienna in early
19th century. The bakers there made a special sort of bread called Kipfel.
Some of them brought it to Copenhagen, where is became common from
around 1840. Towards the turn of the century a creative Danish baker called L.C. Klitteng decided to make it
much lighter by adding a lot of butter.
The bread was called Wienerbrød
(bread from Vienna). This is to this day
a very popular pastry in Denmark – with a lot of calories! The same word is
used in French: Viennoise (though it is not exactly the same bread).
Baker Klitteng decided to make his bread known all
over Europe and later all over the world. He named himself Advisor for Bakers and travelled the world. And he experienced a
great success. His bread became popular everywhere. In The US it was – and still is – sold under
the name DANISH (pastry). He became extra famous, when he in 1915 was
asked to deliver Danish for the wedding of president Wilson.
He also planned to “conquer” China and Japan in the
1930ies with his pastry. But he had to abandon his plans, as he suddenly became
blind.
And finally it is interesting that the same pastry in
the city of its origin, Vienna, is neither called Wienerbrød nor Danish. Its
name is: Kopenhagener.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Denmark in
Western Australia - what
is the history behind that?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
When the future
is concerned your task is not to foresee it, but to make it possible.
This has been said by the French poet
Antoine
de Exupéry.
2.
Today’s quote:
Man's
freedom does not mean that you can do what you want to do. On the
contrary it means that you are not forced
to do what you do not want to do.
Who among today's personalities has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
419: Emperor Valentinian III ( died 455 )
1714: Christoph
Willibald Gluck ( died 1787 )
1905: King
Olav V ( died 1991 )
1925: Patrice Lumumba ( died 1961 )
1929: Imelda Marcos
4. Famous
people died on this day:
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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