TODAY - July 31

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JULY 31

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 6 minutes – from 05.18 to 21.24.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today's name is GERMANUS' DAY.  He was born in 378 AD in Germany and became as a lawyer governor in the Roman provinces in Gallia ( France ). He was turned into a Christian by the local bishop, and he and his wife joint a monastery. Later he was nominated bishop in Auxerre ( in nowadays Burgundy ).

He died 66 years old on this day in 448 AD. He was later declared a saint with the name Saint Germanus of Auxerre.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT IGNACE DE LOYALA – after a Spanish-Basque catholic priest, who lived in the years 1491-1556. He founded the Jesuit order, which helped the Pope to fight the protestants.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1980:  Near Leningrad ( today's Saint Petersburg ) the entertainment park Andersengrad was opened as a tribute to Hans Christian Andersen.

 

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Heinz and 57 - what is the story?

Henry J Heinz was an American businessman from Pittsburgh. He was always on the outlook for new ideas. He produced pickles, tomato sauce and many other products. When he once on a train ride say an advert which said: We sell 21 different shoes he picked up the idea to link a figure to his offers of many different products.  Though his company already offered more than a hundred products he thought of the favourite figure of himself and of his wife. It was 57.  Therefore, he decided that all his products should be presented with the figure 57 in the future.

That is why you today always see the figure 57 on the top of all ketchup bottles.  Check it out yourself!

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Eau de Cologne - why is one of them called 4711?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

When politicians towards other present demands, which they never would dare to put forward in their own name, they always do it Europe's name.

            This was said the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck .

 

Today’s quote:

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

2.  Famous people born on this day:

1527:  Emperor Maximilian II  ( ddiedd 1576 )

1912:  Milton Friedman  ( died 2006 )

1931:  Ivan Rebroff  ( died 2008 )

1944:  Geraldine Chaplin

1965:  J.K. Rowling

 

3.  Famous people died on this day:

        1886:  Franz Liszt  ( 75 years )

             1944:  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  ( 44 years )

             1964:  Jim Reeves  ( 40 years )

             1993:  King Baudouin  (  63 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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