TODAY: September 7
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: SEPTEMBER 7
New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Denmark 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 13 hours
and 23 minutes – from 06.32 to 19.54.
See more – also in
English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
This day is called ROBERT’s DAY. He was a cardinal in Rome in the late 16th century. He is best known for his book from 1576. In that book he was arguing strongly against the protestants.
The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT HILDUARD –
after a Benedictine bishop in Flanders. He died in 760.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1986: Bishop Desmund Tuto becomes the
first black leader of the Anglican church in South Africa, when he is appointed
archbishop of Cape Town.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Magna Carta - what is that? And what does it mean?
This old British
Charter – also called the Great Charter
of the Liberties – was signed on June 15, 1215 by king John and a group of
rebellious English barons. The text was drafted by the archbishop of
Canterbury. Its purpose was to get peace between the unpopular king and the
barons.
The main
articles gave protection of church rights, protection of barons from illegal
imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations to feudal payments to
the crown.
It other words:
it was a charter, which concerned the king and the nobility. Not the population
as such. It was renewed almost ever
since, when new kings or queens took over.
Magna Carta is
by many considered to be the start of parliamentary democracy – though it has
very little to do with today. It inspired many initiatives much later such as
the American declaration of independence and its liberties, the French
revolution and later democratic constitutions.
Now 800 years
later there are still 4 copies of the original Magna Carta in existence. One of
them is in the cathedral in Salisbury – very close to where it was originally
written. And in good British tradition big festivities are organized now and
then to celebrate the Carta, its contents and its importance.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Fata morgana - where does this expression come from? And what does it
mean?
EUROPE
- DO YOU KNOW ?
Yesterday's
European question was:
Which member state is the second largest in EU when population is
concerned?
Italy? or France?
The correct
reply is: France ( with 67 million
inhabitants ). The biggest is Germany with 83 million. And no. 3 is Italy with
60 million.
The European
question for tomorrow is:
Which member state in the EU is the 3rd largest when sq.km are
concerned?
Sweden ?
France? Or Germany ?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1. Yesterday’s
quote:
The
art of taxation is to pick a maximum number of
feathers of the goose
with a minimum of
screaming.
This was once said by king Louis XIV's famous minister
of finance
Jean-Baptiste
Colbert. He needed to collect a
lot of "feathers"!
2. Today’s
quote:
If
you do not get a nice experience just from walking on your own street there
is no reason to
travel far away to try to get it.
Who among today's personalities has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1533: Elizabeth I ( died 1603 )
1913: Anthony Quale ( died 1989 )
1923: Peter Lawford ( died 1984 )
1930: Baudouin I ( died 1993 )
1936: Buddy Holly ( died 1959 )
1944: Bertel Haarder
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1962: Karen Blixen ( 77 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer + EUROPE-AT-WORK www.europe-at-work.be
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