TODAY - July 22

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JULY 22

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 57 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 38 minutes – from 05.02 to 21.40.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called MARY MAGDALENA's DAY.  She is the sister of Lazarus and Martha. She is often in the Western tradition seen as a sinner ( read: prostitute ), who anoints Jesus, while she intensively listens to his speech. She is present on Good Friday with Jesus at the cross, and according to Marcus she is the first, who Easter morning sees the empty grave.

In Belgium the day’s name is the same:   SAINTE MARIE-MADELEINE.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1952: During a visit to Odense in Denmark the American actor Danny Kaye makes many people angry, because he lies down in the bed of Hans Christian Andersen.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Bredevoort - what is that?

It is a small Dutch village with about 1.700 inhabitants. You find it in the very east of Holland, just a few km from the German border. It is positioned between two big cities:  Arnhem (NL) to the west and Münster (D) to the east.

The name of the village means the Broad Fortress. It was a military centre of great importance during the Spanish-Dutch wars 2-300 years ago. It was conquered by one or the other part during the wars. More than a hundred years it was all over, when a lightening hit the ammunition depot, and more than 2/3 of the village was immediately destroyed.

During the last 40-50 years it was all decline for Bredevoort. All young people left. And no activities were left there.  This was the background fot the initiative taken by a number of dynamic people. They decided in 1993 to start a BOOK TOWN. It developed step by step.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

CSR - what is that ?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

 America is a country, where every man has his freedom to do, what his wife       wants him to do.

             This was said by the American author Ernest Hemingway .

    2.Today’s quote:

Kisses are the small change of love !

Who among today’s persons has said that?

2.  Famous people born on this day:

1822:  Gregor Johann Mendel  ( died 1884 )

1882:  Edward Hopper  ( died 1967 )

1887:  Gustav Ludwig Hertz  ( died 1975 )

1946:  Mireille Mathieu

1978:  Dennis Rommedahl

3.  Famous people died on this day:

1832:  Napoleon II  ( 21 years )

1853:  C.W. Eckersberg  ( 70 years )
        
 2003:  Uday Hussein  ( 39 år

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

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

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