TODAY - September 17
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 several days later and they held a common military parade in Brest on Sep.22nd:
1939: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk
TODAY’s QUESTION:
September - what does that name come from?
The name September comes from the Latin
word Septem, which means seven. This
month was the year’s seventh month, according to the old Roman Numa calendar.
The years began on March 1. In our
contemporary calendar this month as we know is the 9th of the year.
The old Danish name for this month is Fiskemåned
( Fish Month ). The reason was now that the fishermen caught the fat autumn
herrings, which were salted and stored for the winter. These herrings were also
a welcome product for the fast period in
the Catholic countries. The scale of the export of these fat autumn herrings
was the economic basis of Denmark's position as a superpower in the 17th
century.
September also had its own specific
verses in the old days in Denmark:
Now, the farmers can treat the grain,
And the fishermen catch the herring fresh.
Lard I like much to eat
and lovely sheep's milk and goat's milk too.
The old Danish weather warnings
also have something to contribute to September:
• It will be a mild weather at Christmas, if the migratory birds have gone
before September is over
• Thunderstorms this month promise a cold Christmas with a lot of snow
• Many acorn on the oaks warn about snow and cold weather at Christmas
There are two so-called Tycho Brahes Days
this month: the 16th and the 18th.
The day’s length in Denmark decreases
by 2 hours and 16 minutes during the month. The lowest temperature in September
was measured in 1886 and was at minus 5.6 degrees. The highest temperature was
measured in 1906 and was at 32.3 degrees. The rain for the whole month has been
between 18 mm (1947) and 162 mm (1994).
September 23 is autumnal, i.e. that day and night are of equal length.
Finally, in September that migratory
birds fly south. And the eels
begin their long journey to the Saragossa Sea near Latin America.
See
more about the names of the 12 months:
http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/origin_months.html
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Trojan
horse -
what's the
history behind that expression? And what does it mean?
EUROPE
- DO YOU KNOW ?
The European
question for today:
What is the European Solidarity
Corps?
This is an
initiative from the EU in 2016. It gives young people between 17 and 30 years
the possibility to work for 2-12 months in a project somewhere in Europe. These
projects are managed by organisations and institutions approved by the EU. And
they are in areas such as education, health, social integration, assistance to
refugees and migrants, environment, etc.
Participants will get their costs paid, and they will at the end receive
a certificate, which will be useful in their further education. By April 2018 altogether 53.000 young
Europeans had applied to take part in the Corps.
The European question for tomorrow:
What is the European Health Insurance Card ?
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
The happy people
are failures, because they are so satisfied with themselves
that they do not care
about being failures.
This was once said by the British author Agathe Christie.
2.
Today’s quote:
It is
with cars as with women: you never
forget the first one in your life!
Who among today's persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1883: William Carlos Williams ( died 1963 )
1906: Frederick Ashton ( died 1988 )
1918: Chaim Herzog ( died 1997 )
1929: Stirling Moss ( died 2020 )
1931: Anne Bancroft ( died 2005
)
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1179: Hildegard of Bingen ( 81 years )
1948: Folke Bernadotte ( 53 years )
1994: Karl Popper ( 92 years )
1996: Spiro Agnew ( 78 years )
1997: Red Skelton ( 84 år )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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