TODAY - September 19
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: SEPTEMBER 19
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is in
Denmark 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 12 hours and
28 minutes – from 06.55 to 19.23.
See more – also in
English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
Today’s name is CONSTANTIA’s DAY. She was a close relative of emperor Constantine the Great ( who lived in the years 285 – 337 AC ). The legend tells that she was cured from a serious illness by the The holy Agnes.
This day is also International Day for Talk like a Pirate” – a special day invented in 1995 by the two American John Baur and Mike Summers.
The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTE EMILIE DE
RODAT – after a French nun, who started a special order of nuns. She lived
in the years 1787-1852.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1946: Winston Churchill
suggested in a speech in
Zurich the creation of a United States of Europe.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Where the pepper
grows - what's the history behind that expression? And what
does it mean?
To be sent to the place where the pepper is growing is a very old expression, which originally comes
from France. They had – and still have –
an area in the north of South America called Guyane. It has always had a very
tough and unpleasant tropical climate, where nobody wanted to go. At the same
time a lot of pepper is growing in the area. The name Cheyenne pepper is very
well known. During and after the French
revolution from 1789 prisoners were sent to Guyane to terrible conditions.
So the threat to be sent to
the place where the pepper grows comes from that habit.
Today the expression is
used in an indirect sense. If anybody tells you that he or she wants to send
you there it is probably not one of your best friends. Or at least not any
longer!
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Seven Sleepers'
Day -- what is the history behind that expression?
EUROPE
- DO YOU KNOW ?
The European
question for today:
What is EU's Consular Assistance Charter? And how can you use as a EU citizen use it?
This service,
also called Consular Protection, is since May 2018 available to all EU
citizens, who travel outside the EU. More
and more people are travelling. At the same time most EU member states reduce
the number of embassies and consulates abroad. Therefore, the new service gives
every citizen the right to go to any embassy or consulate of any EU member
state, if his or her home country is not represented in the country, where you
need help. This help might be needed in
the case of death, accidents, arrests, violence, the need to be sent back home
in case of an emergency, etc. And with
the thousands of EU country embassies and consulates around the world this is a
most useful new EU service.
If you need to
find another member state's embassy or consulate you can go to this home
page: https://ec.europa.eu and search for: Consular Protection.
The European question for tomorrow:
EUROJUST - what is that?
And why is also this part of EU very important?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1. Yesterday’s
quote:
People often
raise their voice when they instead should have strengthened
their argument.
This was said by the British author Samuel Johnson,
also the author of the first
English dictionary.
2.
Today’s quote:
The host says to his guest at the end of the
evening: May I help you taking
your coat on? And the guest replies: No thanks. It is already complicated
enough!
Who among today's persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1551: King Henri III ( died 1589 )
1882: Storm P. (Robert Storm Petersen) ( died 1949 )
1911: William Golding ( died 1993 )
1934: Brian Epstein ( died 1967 )
1949: Twiggy (Leslie
Lawson)
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1710: Ole Rømer ( 66 years )
1881: James Garfield ( 50 years )
1927: Michael Ancher ( 78 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer + EUROPE-AT-WORK www.europe-at-work.be
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