TODAY - July 24


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JULY 24

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 31 minutes – from 05.06 to 21.37.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called CHRISTINA's DAY.  It has its name from the martyr Christina. Her non-Christian father arranged that she was killed, because she would not accept his idols. When she was put on the bonfire, about a thousand non-Christian spectators were caught by fire too.

In Belgium the day’s name is the same:  SAINTE CHRISTINE.   It might refer to several girls with that name, who were killed by the Roman authorities during the first centuries AD – sometimes just because of their name.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1967: French president Charles de Gaulle makes in Montreal in Canada his famous speech with the slogan "Vive le Quebec libre"  ( Long live the free Quebec ).  He is heavily critizised for the speech by the Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson and makes short his visit to go home to Paris.


TODAY’s QUESTION:

CSR - what is that?

This is an abbreviation for Corporate Social Responsability. It is also called Corporate Citizenship. A company which joins CSR and gets a so-called CSR certification is actively doing something good for social, labour practices, cultural, environmental or philantropical matters. And is not paid for it.  About 84 % of the consumers appreciate these efforts.  And at international level CSR is promoted by the UN agency UNIDO.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Brexit - 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:

 An unpleasant truth is better than a pleasant illusion !

            This was said by the American actor Montgomery Clift .

2.  Today’s quote:

Dad was a big child I had, when I was young.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1783:  Simon Bolivar  ( died 1830 )
1802:  Alexandre Dumas  ( died 1870 )
1857:  Henrik Pontoppidan  ( died 1943 )
1939:  Christian Kampmann  ( died 1988 )
1983:  Daniele De Rossi

4.  Famous people died on this day:

          1862:  Martin van Buren  ( 90 years )
             1980:  Peter Sellers  (  55 years )


Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

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

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