TODAY - August 12

 

NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 12

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 15 hours and 18 minutes – from 05.41 to 20.59.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called CLARE's DAY.  She founded the Order of Poor Ladies in accordance with the rules of the Franciscans. And the created the first Clara monastery in Assissi in Italy.  She died in 1253 AD.

Clara is the patron of the washing ladies.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT GÉRY – after a French bishop in Cambrai. He lived in the years 550-626.  He especially looked after prisoners and slaves.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1851:  Isaac Singer  gets his first patent for his sewing machine.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

King Carrot - what is behind that expression ?

To play King Carrot means to be supercilious and arrogant. But where does the expression come from?

It comes from the French composer Jacques Offenbach's satirical operetta Le Roi Carotte (King Carrot) from 1872.  In this operetta the carrot is the leader of a revolution, where all vegetables take over the power in France.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

WiFi - what is that? And what does it mean?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        Poverty is the richest inheritance a young man can get !

             This was once said by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie ,

              who grew up in poverty and became a very rich man. He gave away 94 %

              of his fortune.

2.  Today’s quote:

        Books, the arteries of the mind!

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1930:  George Soros

1939:  George Hamilton

1971:  Pete Sampras

1977:  Jesper Grønkjær

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

 30 f.Kr.:  Cleopatra  ( 39 years )

1848:  George Stephenson  ( 67 years )

1955:  Thomas Mann ( 80 years )

1964:  Ian Fleming  ( 56 years )

1982:  Henry Fonda  ( 77 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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