TODAY - September 12

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: SEPTEMBER 12

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 13 hours – from 06.41 to 19.41.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called GUIDO’s DAY. He was a young Belgian tradesman from Anderlecht. One day he decided to leave his work, his home and his city to go on a 7 year pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem. When he came back he continued his pious life. And when he died on this day in the year 1112 the legend tells that a large column of fire raised above him.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT APOLLINAIRE – after a French bishop in Valence in the south of France. He lived in the years 453-520.  He was in particular very active in the fight against the many invading non-Christian people such as the Huns, the Goths and the Burgund people.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1905:  The new City Hall of Copenhagen was opened. The architect was Mr. Martin Nyrop, and he had used the old City Hall of Siena as a model.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

The background is the German emperor Heinrich IV’s fight with pope Gregory 7. Heinrich governed in the years 1056-1106. When the emperor at the Diet of Worms in 1076 fired the pope it started a very serious conflict. The pope excommunicated the emperor. A year later Heinrich decided to make an end to the fight by walking barefooted all the way to the pope’s castle in Canossa south of Parma in northern Italy. Here he had to wait for 3 days in winterly weather in the courtyard of the castle, before the pope forgived him.

The expression to go to Canossa became very much known much later, when the German chancellor Bismarck started a serious fight with the Catholic church in the 1870ies. We will never go to Canossa, Bismarck stated at several occasions.  But through negotiations the conflict was brought to an end. And many asked themselves afterwards, if Bismarck in reality went to Canossa to finalise the conflict.

Today the term to go to Canossa means that you give totally in in a conflict.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

The Neanderthal man - what is the history behind?

EUROPE - DO YOU KNOW ?

Yesterday's European question was:

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. ?

The answer is again very simple:   These values are all part of the EU Treaties and their Charter of Fundamental Rights.  As and each and every member state at its own will has signed these treaties to become a member state, they are, of course, all committed to respect these values.  What you have signed you have to live up to.  And the EU Treaties also say very clearly, what can happen, if a member state does not live up to its commitments. It might mean that it will lose its voting rights in the Council of Ministers. Following the latest European Council ( July 2020 ) they might also lose some of the money transfers from the EU budget.

 

The European question for tomorrow:

What is EUROPOL?  And how does it work?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

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

       This was said by the British poet and playwright D.H. Lawrence.

2.  Today’s quote:

        A woman's good reputation depends on the silence of several men.

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1852:  Herbert Henry Asquith  ( died 1928 )

1865:  Sophus Claussen  ( died 1931 )

1888:  Maurice Chevalier  ( died 1971 )

1913:  Jesse Owens  ( died 1980 )

1944:  Barry White  ( died 2003 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1977:  Steven Biko  ( 31 years )

1992:  Anthony Perkins  ( 60 years )

1993:  Raymond Burr ( 76 years )

2003:  Johnny Cash  ( 71 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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