TODAY - August 4

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 4

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 15 hours and 50 minutes – from 05.26 to 21.16.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called DOMENICUS' DAY.  He was the founder of the monastic order the Dominicans in 1215 AD. He lived very ascetic himself. Everything he owned he have to the poor. And he always slept on the ground. He carried a heavy chain of iron around his waist.

When the Pope accepts the Dominican monastic order in 1215 it was called the Order of Preachers. It was only in the 15th century it got the name the Dominicans.

Domenicus dies in 1221 and is buried in Bologna.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT JEAN-MARIE VIANNEY – a French Catholic priest, who lived in the years 1786-1859.  He was the patron of parish priests.

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TODAY’s EVENT:

1997: The person with the highest documented age ever dies. It is the 122 year old French woman Jeanne Calment.


TODAY’s QUESTION:

Carpet - to be called on the carpet - what does that mean ?

To be called on the carpet means that you probably have done something you shouldn't have done - and your teacher or another adult wants an explanation from you. It might well end with a reprimand.  In the "good old days" you might even get some physical punishment.  So it is not - neither then nor now - a very positive experience to be called on the carpet!

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Kleptocracy - 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:

 What a child doesn't receive it can seldom later give.

            This was said by the British author P.D. James .

2.  Today’s quote:

I don't care what you call what I play - jazz or swing. It sounds the same way anyhow!

Whom among today’s persons can have said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1792:  Percy Shelley  ( died 1822 )

1821:  Louis Vuitton  ( died 1892 )

1859:  Knut Hamsun  ( died 1952 )

1901:  Louis Armstrong  ( died 1971 )

1912:  Raoul Wallenberg  ( died 1947 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

            1526:  Juan Sebastian Elcano  ( 50 years )

             1875:  H.C. Andersen  ( 70 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


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