TODAY - July 7
NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS
ON: JULY 7
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Denmark 17 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 18
minutes – from 04.41 to 21.59.
See more – also in
English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
Today’s
name is WILLIBALD’s DAY. He was the
first Englishman, who went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. His name is often also spelled as Villibaldus.
Later
he became a monk. And at the end he was bishop in the city of Eichstätt in
Bavaria in Germany. He died here in the year 787 AC.
It’s
also today that the traditional
bull-run in Pamplona in Spain starts.
The
day’s name in Belgium is the same: SAINT
GUILLEBAUD. He lived in the years
700-87.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1974: West
Germany wins the world championship in football.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Honey moon - where
does that expression come from? And what does it mean?
The old English expression hony
moone from the 16th century was the name for the very first days
in the marriage of newly weds. That was
where they started their new life and probably also laid the ground for a
larger family. In the early 19th
century it became a habit for new couples (in the upper classes) in England
that they went on a trip immediately after the wedding. They were often
accompanied by family and friends on the trip. They either went to see family,
who had not been able to come to the wedding. Or to other places. The French
Riviera and Italy ( Rome, Verona and Venice) were the most popular places. In France the same habit started in the
1820’es (“English style voyages”). And in the so-called Belle Epoque (
1871-1914) the honeymoon trips were in a way the start of mass tourism.
In Denmark honeymoon is called hvedebrødsdage
(white bread days). Why? Because normally people in the old days only had rye
bread to eat. In the days after the
wedding they had the more expensive wheat breat or white bread for a few days.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Köpenick event -
what was that?
And what did it symbolize?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
A
kiss is nothing - and everything!
This was said
by the French author Guy de Maupassant.
2.
Today’s quote:
It is
the fate of guides that they cannot keep up with progress.
Who from today's lists has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1860: Gustav Mahler ( died 1911 )
1887: Marc Chagall ( died 1985 )
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1930: Arthur Conan Doyle ( 71 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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