TODAY - September 11

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: SEPTEMBER 11

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 4 hours and 30 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 13 hours and 4 minutes – from 06.39 to 19.44.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called HILLEBERT’s DAY. He was bishop in Tours in France. And he was a famous psalm poet. He died in 1134.

In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINTE VINCIANE – after an Italian saint, who settled in Belgium together with her brother. She died in Wintershoven in Limburg in 977 and was later buried in a monastery in Ghent.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

2001:  The Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York were destroyed by a terrorist attack. More than 3.000 people died.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Pour oil on stormy waters  -  what's the origin of that expression?

This expression comes from the monk and priest Beda. 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.

Beda 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 monestary. 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 Beda, who wrote a lot about religion in England before Christianity.

Beda died in 735 – 53 years of age.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Go to Canossa  - where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

EUROPE - DO YOU KNOW ?

Yesterday's European question was:

How is the European Union important also for the use of credit cards?

The answer is very simple:  since early 2018 it is forbidden in all EU countries to add a special levy on the use of credit cards from any member state of the EU.  Before that it was a very used habit.  So do not worry using your credit card when you are travelling inside the EU.  

The European question for tomorrow:

Why are all EU member states legally obliged to respect the European values such as democracy, protection of minorities, freedom of the media, independence of the courts of justice, equality between men and women, etc. ?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        You tiny country enjoying life in your bed while the world is in flames around

             you!

             This was written by the Danish poet Jeppe Aakjær during World War I, when

             Denmark was neutral, while the war happened all around her.

2.  Today’s quote:

        I like to write when I feel vicious. It is like having a great sneeze.

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1546:  Arild Huitfeldt  ( died 1609 )

1786:  Friedrich Kuhlau  ( died 1832 )

1881:  Asta Nielsen ( died 1972 )

1885:  D.H. Lawrence  ( died 1930 )

1917:  Ferdinand Marcos  ( died 1989 )

1945:  Franz Beckenbauer

1957:  Preben Elkjær

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

        1971:  Nikita Khrustjov  ( 77 years)

             1973:  Salvador Allende  ( 65 years )

             2003:  Anna Lindh  ( 46 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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