TODAY - August 2

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 2

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 15 hours and 58 minutes – from 05.22 to 21.20.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

­­­­­­Today's name is HANNIBAL's DAY.  We do not know, why is carries that name. It is certainly not because of the army leader from Carthage with the same name. He lived in the years 247-183 BC.  Almost all saints come from the time after the birth of Christ. The rest from the Old Testament.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT EUSÈBE DE VERCELLI. He lived in the years 283-371 and was bishop on Sardinia.

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TODAY’s EVENT:

1931:  Albert Einstein encourages all scientists to refuse to work on projects with a military  purpose.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Venezuela - where does that name come from ?

This is - as most people know - a country in the very north of South America. The area was colonised by Spain in 1522. Colombus called the area "The Land of Grace".  The Spaniards rented the area to a German banking group in the years 1528-46, probably to get some money. And it was in that period that the Germans gave the area the name Venezuela - meaning Little Venezia!

The country's size today is 916.445 sp.km - 21 times the size of Denmark, almost three times as big as the size of Germany and 30 % bigger than France. Its number of inhabitants is today 32 million.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

European Artists Villages - what is that?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

The woman's great power is her theatrical side, her mask, her sense of

 mysticism.  It is very rare that you find a man, who mysterious.

This has been said by the French artist Yves Saint-Laurent ,

 

2.  Today’s quote:

             Israeli children should be taught to look into the future - and not live in the

             past. I prefer to teach them to think in an innovative way instead of living

             in the past.     

             Who among today's personalities has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1869:  King Constantin I  ( died 1923 )

1905:  Karl Amadeus Hartmann  ( died 1963 )

1923:  Shimon Peres  ( died 2016 )

1932:  Peter O’Toole   ( died 2013 )

1942:  Isabel Allende

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:       

             1921:  Enrico Caruso  ( 48 years )

             1922:  Alexander Graham Bell  ( 75 years )

             1934:  Paul von Hindenburg  ( 87 years )

             1997:  William S. Burroughs  ( 83 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


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