TODAY - August 11
NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS
ON: AUGUST 11
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Denmark 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 15 hours
and 22 minutes – from 0539 to 21.01.
See more – also in
English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
This day's name is HERMAN's DAY. He was a German Jew, who became a Christian
in 1131 AD. Later he worked to convince other Jews to become Christians.
The day’s name in Belgium in SAINTE CLAIRE – after Santa Clara of
Assissi, who lived in the years 1194-1253. She was one of the followers of
Frances of Assissi. And the founded the nun’s order for poor women.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1999: On this day the world experienced the most total
eclipse ever.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
The Kamaki
Culture - Amore fantastico - what is that ?
We are back in the period from the
1960ies to the 1980ies. The
place is Lesbos. The Greek
island, which according to the ancient legend was reserved for women. The word
Lesbian comes from the name of the island.
But it is not like that anymore. And certainly not in the period just
mentioned. This was the start of the huge charter tourism. Thousands of
tourists from the cold north came to Lesbos to enjoy the heat. And it was not
only the heat from the sun they were looking for. Especially the young and the
younger women, perhaps also some of the less young, were ready for more!
And if had not
made a plan for it themselves they were very quickly assisted by the local
dynamic men!
They had
together started sort of a competition, which got the name: the Kamaki Culture. Its main ingredient was
that each young man should try to "score" - to get involved with - as
many of the blond tourist girls as possible.
They knew the arrival hours of the charter flights by heart, so they
could be ready in the airport as soon as the planes arrived. These guys were
called the Kamkaies. They were very
innovative. Flowers, compliments, joint motorbike tours in moonshine, wine
under the stars, poems and phony romanticism almost as you see it in the
B-films!
The Kamkaies
made systematic bookkeeping on all their conquests, and there were rules on how
many points each conquest gave you. Two
sisters together gave 10 points. If you
received a love letter after the girl had returned back home: 20 points. And if a blond came back again just to visit
you: 50 points. Everything was written
down and comparisons were made between the Kamakies. And the most successful of
them ruled the island like old Greek kings!
At that time
Greek girls normally did not go out. And if they did they had long dresses. This was certainly not the case with the
tourists!
PS: Now you
probably think that this story can only have been written by a man. But no! It
is written on the basis of a very entertaining article written by a female
journalist in the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende on August 6, 2017. And the headline of the big article was: When
grandpa was harpooning blond girls! The
Greek word kamaki means: harpoon !
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
King Carrot - what is behind that expression ?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
Children
are our most valuable natural resource.
This was once said by the former
American president Herbert Hoover .
2.
Today’s quote:
Poverty
is the richest inheritance a young man can get !
Who among this day's persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1897: Enid Blyton ( died 1968 )
1921: Alex Haley ( died 1992 )
1943: Pervez Musharraf
1950: Steve Wozniak
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1919: Andrew Carnegie ( 84 years )
1996: Rafael Kubelik ( 82 years )
2001: Jorge Amado ( 79 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer + EUROPE AT WORK: www.europe-at-work.be
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