TODAY - July 27


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JULY 27

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 21 minutes – from 05.11 to 21.32.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today's name is MARTHA's DAY.  It has its name after Maria Magdalena's sister Martha, who started a monastery for nuns.

An old Danish weather warning tells, that if it rains on Martha's day, it will be raining for seven weeks.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTE CHRISTIANE – after a saint from Georgia. She lived in the 4th century.  She is in particular celebrated in the Eastern Christian churches.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1953:  North and South Korea agree on an armistice. 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Perpetuum mobile - what is that?


A perpetuum mobile ( or perpetual motion machine ) is a machine, which is able to work forever without getting energy from anywhere. Thousands of hopeful inventors have tried during many centuries. One of them was the famous Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519 ). But nobody succeeded.  It is obvious that the guy, who perhaps some day finds the solution, will become a very, very rich man - or woman!

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

All thumbs -  what does that mean? And where does the expression come from?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

             Experience is not what a man experiences. It is what he uses the experienced
             for.

            This was said by the Irish poet George Bernard Shaw .

Today’s quote:

Save money - perhaps it is worth something some day!

Who among today’s persons has said that?

2.  Famous people born on this day:

1824:  Alexandre Dumas the Younger  ( died 1895 )
1835:  Geosuè Carducci  ( died 1907 )            
1910:  Julien Gracq  ( died 2007 )
           
3.  Famous people died on this day:
          1946:  Gertrude Stein  (  72 years )
            1980:  Muhammad Reza Pahlavi  ( 61 years )
            1984:  James Mason  ( 75 years )
            2003:  Bob Hope  ( 100 years )

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

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

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