TODAY - September 14

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: SEPTEMBER 14

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 4 hours and 44 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and 51 minutes – from 06.45 to 19.36.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called the CROSS’s EXALTATION DAY.  Emperor Heraclius made in the year 631 AC this day a holiday as a remembrance of the victory over the Persians in 614. At this occasion the holy cross from the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was taken back from the non-Christians.

The day’s name in Belgium is the same:  EXALTATION DE LA CROIX.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1949:  Konrad Adenauer was elected as the first West German chancellor. He won with 1 vote in the Parliament. You can say that it was his own vote.  He remained in office until 1963.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Taste blood  -  where does that expression come from?  And what does it mean?

This expression comes originally from the world of wild animals. It is well know that when a lion, a tiger or a panther bites another animal to eat it it gets even more wild and energetic from the moment it can taste blood. This is more or less an automatic reaction. A cat reacts perhaps the same way when it can taste the blood of a mouse.

When you say that a person tastes blood you mean that she or he is getting extra energy – getting really focused on finishing a job or a task.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Casanova  -  where does that word come from? And what does it mean?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        A denial in diplomacy is a negative confirmation of news, which so far

             was only a rumour.

             This was once said by the British author J.B. Priestley.

2.  Today’s quote:

        Humour is what you do not possess the moment you try to explain what it is.

             Who has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1760:  Maria Luigi Cherubini  ( died 1842 )

1769:  Alexander von Humboldt  ( died 1859 )

1886:  Jan Masaryk  ( died 1948 )

1949:  Tommy Seebach  ( died 2003 )

1965:  Dmitri Medvedev

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

           1937:  Tomas Masaryk  ( 87 years )

           1971:  Harald Lander ( 66 years )

           1982:  Grace Kelly  ( 53 years )

           1992:  Finn Søeborg  ( 76 years )

           2005:  Robert Wise  ( 91 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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