TODAY - July 9


NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS
ON: JULY 9

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 21 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 14 minutes – from 04.43 to 21.57.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called SOSTRATA’s DAY. This is a Greek female name, but not a known saint. And nobody knows today why this day has this name. The day was earlier called Cyrille’s Day and also Joanna’s Day.

Other sources say that the name of this day is AGILOF’s DAY.  Named after a bishop in Cologne in the 8th century AC.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINTS MARTYRS DE GORCUM – after 19 Dutch people, who were hanged by the Calvinists on July 9, 1572.


TODAY’s EVENT:

2006: Italy wins the world championship in football in France.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Volvo - where does that word come from? And what does it mean?

When the Swedish founders of the car company Volvo many years ago had to decide a name for the new car they could have chosen to call it Viking, Thor or another Nordic name. They didn't. They decided to go for a Latin name.

The Latin verb Volvere means driving - rolling. And when you want to say: I drive it is in Latin: Volvo.  The owners wanted to make a car, which could drive everywhere, even in the sometimes harsh Scandinavian weather conditions.  So they chose the brand name: VOLVO.  Simple and clear.

The fact that the company today is owned by the Chinese has not changed the name. It wouldn't be clever either.

About Volvo driving everywhere:  Many years ago the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel had a picture of a Volvo car on its front page. The text was:  Schnellste Traktor der Welt  (fastest tractor in the world).

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Audi - where does that name come from? And it means?


47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        Wealth spoils children, if they get too much of it.

              This was said by the American multi-billionaire John D. Rockefeller.

2.  Today’s quote:
        It is anatomically difficult and always somewhat ridiculous to clap yourself
             congratulating on your own shoulder.

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1901:  Barbara Cartland  ( died 2000 )

1916:  Edward Heath  ( died 2005 )

1929:  King Hassan II  ( died 1999 )

1932:  Donald Rumsfeld

1956:  Tom Hanks

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1440:  Jan van Eyck  ( 55 years )



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

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