TODAY: September 6
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: SEPTEMBER 6
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Denmark 4 hours and 8 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 13 hours
and 27 minutes - from 06.30 to 1957.
See more – also in
English about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
This day’s name is MAGNUS’ DAY. There are probably three people who are the origin of the name:
The first one is a Christian with this name. He was persecuted during the reign of emperor Decius in 250 AC.
The second Magnus lived in the 7th century AC. He first lived as a hermit near Saint Gallen. Later he started missionary work in Bauern. And at the end he founded a Benedictine monastery in Saint Mang near Füssen. The legend tells that he wins a fight with a dragon and with his stick drives away bears and snakes.
The third Magnus was killed in 1115, and at his grave in the Orkney Islands lots of wonders happened later on.
The day’s name in Belgium is
SAINTE EVA – after a French martyr from Dreux. The name Eva comes from Hebrew Havvah – which
means to give life.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1991: The Soviet Union
accepts the declarations
of independence from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
The Greek flag - what is its history? And why does it look as it does?
See photo below.
It is called the "sky-blue-white flag". It has a blue and white cross in the
upper left corner. And then it has 9 horizontal stripes: 5 blue stripes and 4 white ones. The top and buttom stripe is always blue.
The flag has in many ways looked the same, since
Greece became independent from Turkey in 1821, almost 200 years ago.
The white cross symbolises the Greek ortodox religion,
which for many centuries has been the
religion in Greece.
The 9 stripes represent the number of syllables in the
famous Greek phrase: Eleftheria i Thanatos - meaning Liberty or Death. It was the motto of the Greek revolution 200
years ago, when they got their freedom after 400 years under Turkish rule.
Why is the main colour of the flag blue? It symbolises the
blue Hellenic Sea. And the white
colour symbolises the restless waves
coming on the sea (the waves which the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite came
from according to the legend).
Others say that the blue colour refers to the blue
Greek sky and the white colour to the few white clouds on the sky.
Everybody has the right to use the Greek flag. It has like all flags to be treated with
respect.
The Greek
national song also refers to the flag.
You can hear it and see the text in Greek and in English of this song
here:
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Magna Carta - what is that? And what does it mean?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
EUROPE
- DO YOU KNOW ?
Yesterday's
European question was:
How many countries take part in EU's Schengen cooperation
(2018), which since 1995 has abolished permanent borders between the
participating countries?
22
countries? 26 countries ? or 28
countries ?
The correct
answer is: 28 countries. All 27 EU countries are members except 3: Ireland, Romania and Bulgaria. This makes
24. In addition Norway, Iceland,
Switzerland and Lichtenstein have joined Schengen.
The European
question for tomorrow:
Which member
state is the second largest in EU when population is concerned?
Italy? or France?
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1. Yesterday’s
quote:
Women who already with their clothes on show
everything has nothing to make the
man curious.
This was once said by the American
actress Raquel Welsh. Though one could
think it was said by a man!
2. Today’s
quote:
The
art of taxation is to pick a maximum number of
feathers of the goose
with a minimum of
screaming.
Who among
today's personalities has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1757: Marquis de Lafayette ( died 1834 )
1888: Joseph P. Kennedy ( died
1969 )
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1683: Jean Baptiste Colbert ( 64 years )
1901: William McKinley ( 58 years )
1907: Sully Prudhomme ( 65 years )
1962: Hanns Eisler ( 64 years )
1966: Hendrik Verwoerd ( 65 years )
2007: Luciano Pavarotti ( 72 years
)
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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