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  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: SEPTEMBER 20 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: Today is in Belgium 4hours and 10 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and 20 minutes – from 07.26 to 19.46. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day’s name is TOBIA’s DAY . He was a young, religious Jewish man, who lived around 200 before Christ.   Once he went on a long and very dangerous trip to Media ( an ancient country in present day Kurdistan ) to pick up money for his blind father Tobit.   The legend tells that he on the trip was protected by the angel Raphael. In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT DAVY .   It has its name from an English monk, who refused to accept king Henry VIII as the supreme leader of the church.   That is why he together with eight other monks were killed.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1946: The first film festival in Cannes takes place.   TODAY’s QUESTION: ...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: SEPTEMBER 19 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is in Denmark 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and 28 minutes – from 06.55 to 19.23. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is CONSTANTIA’s DAY . She was a close relative of emperor Constantine the Great ( who lived in the years 285 – 337 AC ). The legend tells that she was cured from a serious illness by the The holy Agnes. This day is also International Day for Talk like a Pirate ” – a special day invented in 1995 by the two American John Baur and Mike Summers. The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTE EMILIE DE RODAT – after a French nun, who started a special order of nuns. She lived in the years 1787-1852.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1946:   Winston Churchill suggested in a speech in Zurich the creation of a United States of Europe.   TODAY’s QUESTION: W...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: SEPTEMBER 18 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Denmark 5 hours and 2 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and 32 minutes – from 06.53 to 19.25. See more – also in English – on www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today is called TITUS' DAY . He was a friend and companion of the apostle Paulus . You can say that he was his secretary, as he was the one writing things down. Titus was twice sent alone to Ephesus and to Corinthia . When Paulus leaves Crete he nominates Titus as the local bishop. Titus dies according to the legend in 107 AC. He was 95 years old. The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT JOSEPH DE CUPERTINO – after an Italian Franciscan, who lived in the years 1603-63. He is the patron of flying, studying and for those suffering from mental handicaps.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1973:  West Germany and East Germany become members of the United Nations.   TODAY’s QUESTION: T...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: SEPTEMBER 17 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Denmark 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and 37 minutes. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is LAMBERTUS’ DAY . He was a highly esteemed bishop in Maastricht , and he was also a very energetic missionary. He was murdered in his home by French noble men, whom he had attacked for living a very sinful life. It happened in the year 703 AC. In Belgium the day’s name is the same:  SAINT LAMBERT .   TODAY’s EVENT: 1787: The American constitution is signed in Philadelphia by 39 out of 42 delegates. 1939:  This day in 1939 Soviets invaded Poland from the East, occupied Western Ukraine and Western Belarus and made them part of USSR through Soviet-style votings of specifically elected for that deputies in Dec. 1939.  The Soviet army met the German Army...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: SEPTEMBER 16 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Denmark 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and 41 minutes – from 06.49 to 19.31. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is EUFEMIA's DAY . She was a young Christian daughter of a politician in Chalcedon ( which was a town in what is today part of the Asiatic half of Istanbul ). She was persecuted terribly during the reign of emperor Diocletian , but she did not die from the treatment. Only when a bear one day bate her head off she perished.   It happened in the year 290 AC.   The legend tells that many wonders happened at her grave afterwards. Today is also the United Nations’ international for the preservation of the ozon layer . The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTS CORNEILLE ET CYPRIÉN – they became Christian in their 40ies.    Cyprién became bishop ...