TODAY - August 29

 

NIELS’ EVENING GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 29

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 14 hours and 12 minutes – from 06.14 to 20.26.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day's name is JOHN's BEHEADING DAY.  John the Baptist was - as you know - beheaded at the order of king Herod, and his head was delivered on a silver plate to Salome.  It was the king's thank you to her for her dance for him.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTE SABINE – after the holy Sabina in Rome. She was a Christian and buried her Christian slave after he was killed.  Therefore, she was killed herself in the year 126 AD.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

2005: The hurricane Katrina hits the American Gulf coast, including New Orleans. And more than 1800 people are killed.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Ants - why do they walk in one long line?

We have all seen how ants almost always are on the move. And they always walk in line - normally between the huge nest and some place, where they collect food. How do they do that?  How do they know how to follow the guy in front? Some antelopes have a special "design" on their back, so that it is easy for those behind them to follow. Do ants have the same?  The answer is no.  They follow each other because they spread a special smell, which those behind just follows. And those smells apparently signals different things:  either that there is food ahead. Or there are enemies ahead. Or there are other ants in the neighbourhood.

How do we know that?  A scientific project in New York shows it. The researchers were of the belief, that smell was the reason. Therefore, they  took the gene making it possible to smell out of some ants' brains ( which is not bigger that the head of a small pin ). And what happened?  The ants with no ability to smell were no longer following other ants, but were running around in a disorganised way.

Very interesting findings. Also because we know that the number of ants in the world is enormous.  A prudent calculation says that there are 1.400 ants per inhabitant in the world.

PS: Talking about ants: do you know what the expression for being very energetic and active is?  It is:  to have ants in your pants !

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Environmental badges - 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:

 Only the shabby, simple people are modest - the clever ones are pleased with  

 their deeds.

            This was said by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

2.  Today’s quote:

 Getting old is like climbing a mountain. You might lose your breath, but the

 view is much better !

Who among today’s personalities has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1632:  John Locke  ( died 1704 )

1915:  Ingrid Bergman  ( died 1982 )

1920:  Charlie ”Bird” Parker  ( died 1955 )

1923:  Richard Attenborough  (died 2014)

1924:  Dinah Washington  ( died 1963 )

1944:  Rajiv Gandhi  ( died 1991 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

30 BC: Cleopatra  ( 39 years )

1877:  Brigham Young  (  71 years )

1982:  Ingrid Bergman  ( 67 years )

  

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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