TODAY - September 16

 

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 in  Carthage in North Africa. He died in 258.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1795:  England conquers Cape Town in South Africa.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Paint the town red  -  where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

This expression comes from the US. Originally it comes from an Irish-American ballade, which says:  the beacon hills were painted red.  It referred to a tradition that the hills with the beacons were actually now and then painted red to signal that a big festival was about to start.

There is also proof that the expression comes from the Missisippi river.  The captain of an old steam ship had big difficulties in competition with the new steam ships. One day he said to his crew:  Paint her red, boys!  From then on his business was very good again.

In German you talk about Rot anstreichen (to paint something red). It refers to the tradition that you make a red mark in your calendar/diary for days when some festivities are expected to happen.

Nowadays the expression to paint the town red is – as you know – still used.  It means you are going to have a great evening out. Normally without painting anywhere.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

September - what does that name come from?

EUROPE - DO YOU KNOW ?

The European question for today:

What is the cooperation called GALILEO in the EU?  And what does it deal with?

This is the name of EU's satellite navigation system. It was started in 2005 and is operational from 2018. It has its headquarters in Prague.  It consists today of 30 satellites. And it is ten times more precise than the American GPS system, which most of us use today.  It can show distances down to 1 meter. It also includes a number of other functions such as a Rescue & Search service.  It is under civil control unlike GPS, which depends on the US military - and which the Americans can switch off at any moment, if they want to.  And with a president like Mr. Trump it is perhaps an extra advantage that we now have our own satellite navigation service.

When you today use your GPS service on your smartphone or in other ways you normally automatically use signals from the American GPS, the European GALILEO and also from the Russian and Chinese services.

Galileo has its name from the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ( 1564-1642 ).

 

The European question for tomorrow:

What is the European Solidarity Corps?

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        I never liked journalists. So in all my books they suffer a very painful death.

             This was said by the British author Agathe Christie.

2.  Today’s quote:

        As none of today's personalities has said anything unforgettable you get

             another quote of Agathe Christie:

             The happy people are failures, because they are so satisfied with themselves

             that they do not care about being failures.

 

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1891:  Karl Dönitz  ( died 1980 )

1925:  Charles Haughey  ( died 2006 )

1926:  B.B. King   ( died 2015 )

1956:  David Copperfield

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

        1736:  Gabriel Fahrenheit  ( 50 years )

             1865:  Christian de Meza  ( 73 years )

             1977:  Maria Callas  ( 53 years )

 1987:  Christopher Soames  ( 66 years )


Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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