TODAY - September 2

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: SEPTEMBER 2

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 4 hours and 13 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 13 hours and 53 minutes – from 06.22 to 20.15.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is ELISA’s DAY. He was according to the Old Testament a prophet, who lived around 850 BC.

The older prophet Elias ( 873 – 851 BC ) selected Elisa as his disciple and his successor. It happened while Elisa was ploughing his parents’ land. The legend tells, that Elias blessed Elisa before he himself went to heaven on board a fire carriage.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINTE MARGUERITE DE LOUVAIN. She was a young girl who lived in Leuven in Flanders in Belgium in the years 1207-25.  She worked in a place for pilgrims. But she was killed by robbers, who came to her place.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1945:  The Second World War ends with Japan’s official surrender.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

To marry to the left hand - what does that mean?

It means that a king could marry a normal, non-royal girl. The expression comes from the fact that the king at the wedding gave his bride the left hand. This was a sign that neither the wife nor their children would be heirs to the king. And the king could at the same time marry a royal woman.

In the Catholic church marriage to the left hand has been accepted for centuries, not only for kings, but also for noble men - and even for noble women, giving them the possibility to marry someone below their status. And without giving the right be heirs.

Concrete cases have been many, such as:

1. 1850:  the Danish king Frederik VII and Louise Rasmussen (Countess Danner)

2. 1880:  the Russian zar Alexander II and Eketarina Dolgorukova

3. 1900:  the Austrian-Hungarian arch-count Franz Ferdinand and Sophie von Chotek.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

The Danish flag - what is its history?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        After me the inondation  -  who said once that ?

             This is the famous quotation of the French "Sun King", Louis XIV: "Apres moi -  

              le déluge!".  The French revolution started 74 years after his death.

2.  Today’s quote:

        Women has only one role in sport - to give the winners their prizes.

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1917:  Bodil Kjer  ( died 2003 )

1925:  Russ Conway  ( died 2000 )

1952:  Jimmy Connors

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

        1872:  N.F.S. Grundtvig   ( 89 years )

             1910:  Henri Rousseau  ( 64 years )

             1937:  Pierre de Coubertin  ( 74 years )

             1969:  Ho Chi Minh  ( 79 years )

             1973:  J.R.R. Tolkien  ( 81 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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