TODAY - August 19

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 19

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 14 hours and 48 minutes – from 05.55 to 20.42.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called SEBALDUS' DAY.  He was according to the legend a Christian son of a king from Dacia, perhaps Denmark.

He went to Paris to study, but gets engaged to a princess, whom he leaves after the wedding night to go to Rome. Later he lives as a hermit in Poppenreuth west of Nuremberg ( Nürnberg ). Later he dies at a monastery in Nuremberg. This happens in 770 AD. Other legends tell that it happens later, in the 11th century.

Sebaldus is the patron of Nürnberg.

This day’s name in Belgium is SAINT JEAN EUDES – after a French catholic priest in Normandy.  He lived in the years 1601-80. He was the founder of the Order of Our Lady of Charity.


TODAY’s EVENT:

1991:  In a coup a number of Soviet leaders try to overthrow president Michail Gorbachev.  The coup is not successful.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Movements in space - do you know how fast we are all moving?

Most people know that our Earth is turning around its own axis. Do you know with what speed? 465 meters per second.

But this is not our only move every second.  Our Earth is circling around the Sun with an average speed of 29,8 km per second. And furthermore, our solar system, called the Milky Way, is also constantly turning around its axis. And it does it with a speed of 250 km per second.

So if you feel that everything is on the move, you are right!  We are all moving – day and night – 280,3 km every second. So think twice before you next time say: Stop the world, I want to get off!

 

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Pour oil on stormy waters - what does that mean?  And where does the expression come from?

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47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

This was said by the American actor Robert Redford .

2.  Today’s quote:

        Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

             Who among today’s persons has said that?

 

 

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1883:  Gabrielle Coco Chanel  ( died 1971 )

1946:  Bill Clinton

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

          14:      Emperor Augustus  ( 51 years )

           1662:  Blaise Pascal  ( 39 years )

           1819:  James Watt  ( 83 years )

           1977:  Groucho Marx  ( 87 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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