TODAY - August 20

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 20

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 14 hours and 43 minutes – from 05.57 to 20.40.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called BERNHARD's DAY. He lived in the years 1090-1153 and was the founder of the Order of the Cisterciences for monks.  He also started the monastery Clairvaux in the south of France.

The legend tells tha Virgin Mary once came in front of him and pressed milk from her breast. This milk was collected and stored as relics in the monastery.

An old Danish weather warning tells that strong winds will appear on this day.

The day’s name in Belgium is the same:  SAINT BERNARD.

 

TODAY’s EVENTS:

1968: The Soviet Union and its allies invade Czechoslovakia.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

This expression comes from the monk and priest Bede. This was what he suggested a young priest to do, when a storm was about to start.

Today the meaning is that you try to calm down a situation of anger and excitement.

Bede was a monk and priest, who worked in England around 700 AC.  He was born in 672 in Northumbria. Already at the age of 7 he started at a monastery. Later he was also an author and a poet of psalms. And it was him who suggested that our calendar should start with the birth of Jesus.

It was also Bede, who wrote a lot about religion in England before Christianity.

Bede died in 735 – 53 years of age.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Venus from Milo - what is the story ?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

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

             This was said by the former American president Bill Clinton .

 

2.  Today’s quote:

        The party is the historical instrument through which classes become

             conscious of their class.

             Who among today's personalities has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1898:  Vilhelm Moberg  ( died 1973 )

1923:  Jim Reeves  ( died 1964 )

1941:  Slobodan Milosovic  ( died 2006 )

1944:  Rajiv Gandhi  ( died 1991 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

       1672:  Jan de Witt  ( 48 years )

            1940:  Lev Trotskij  ( 61 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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