TODAY - August 5

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: AUGUST 5

New edition

 

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 15 hours and 46 minutes – from 05.28 to 21.14.

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

 

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called OSVALDUS' DAY.  It has its name from the English king Osvaldus, who lost his life on this day in 642 AD in the fight against non-Christians. He was in 635 the founder of the monastery Lindisfarne on a small island at the coast of Northumberland in north-east England. The Viking conquest of England started in 793 by the fall of this monastery.

In the years following the death of Osvaldus the legend tells that his right hand continued  to function as before, because he earlier had been blessed by bishop Aidan, after he had given his food to the poor.

 

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT ABEL.  He was born in Scotland and became bishop in Reims in France. He died in 764.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1884: The first stone was put in place for the Statue of Liberty in New York at Bedloe's island in the harbour of the city. It was a present from France.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Kleptocracy - what is that ?

The word comes from ancient Greek and is the name for a sort of government, where fraud and corruption are the guiding principles, run  by thieves and deceivers.

That sort of governance ensures that the people in charge collects huge fortunes and grap political power through undemocratic means at the cost of the population.

More and more people see today's Russia as a Kleptocracy. And it is also likely that president Putin is the richest man in the world.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Vergina - 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:

 

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

 

                  This was said by the American musician and entertainer

                  Louis Armstrong .

 

2.  Today’s quote:

 

                  Conferences today remind me of parking areas for   unsolved                             problems.

 

                  Who among today's personalities has said that?

 

3.  Famous people born on this day:

    1399:  Johannes Gutenberg  ( died 1469 )

    1737:  Johann Friedrich Struensee  ( died 1772 )

    1850:  Guy de Maupassant  ( died 1893 )

    1912:  Abbé Pierre  (  died 2007 )

    1930:  Neil Armstrong    ( died 2012 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

                1895:  Friedrich Engels  ( 75 years )

                 1962:  Marilyn Monroe  ( 36 years )

                 1984:  Richard Burton  ( 59 years )

                 2000:  Alec Guinness  ( 86 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

 

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

 

+ EUROPA I ARBEJDSTØJET:  www.europa-i-arbejde.be

 


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