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  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: NOVEMBER 30 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 9 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 20 minutes – from 08.22 to 16.42. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is ANDREW’s DAY . He was one of the apostles of Jesus and also brother to the apostle Peter. He went to Greece as a missionary. Here he was later crucified by the authorities because of his faith. His execution happened on an X – formed cross. This has later been named an Andrew’s Cross. Today has traditionally been used for old weather warnings. In the Nordic countries people said in the old days that “ if is cold on Andrew’s day it will be a mild winter, but a cold spring “ The day’s name in Belgium is the same:    SAINT ANDRÉ.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1840: The remains of Napolean Bonaparte were moved from St. Helena to Paris. They are ...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: NOVEMBER 29 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 7 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 22 minutes – from 08.20 to 16.42. Se more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is SATURNINUS’ DAY .   He was a missionary in Toulouse in the southwest of France. And later he became a bishop there.   In the year 250 AC the non-Christians decided to kill him. He was tied to the legs of a bull. And the bull was then pursued down the stairs from the local capitol.   Later a church named Notre-Dame-du-Tours was built on that spot. The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT RADBOD – after a Frisian king, who was also bishop in Utrecht in the Netherlands.   He was fighting with the Franconeans and defeated Karel Martel near Cologne.   He died in 719.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1814: The newspaper The Times in London star...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS   ON: NOVEMBER 28   New edition   TODAY’s LENGTH:   This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 5 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 24 minutes – from 08.19 to 16.43. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk   TODAY’s NAME: Today is called  SOPHIA MAGDALENE’s DAY .  She was the Danish king  Christian VI’s  queen – born on this day. Unlike the tradition at the time Christian’s dad, king Frederik IV, allowed his son to find his wife himself.  He travelled through Europe to try to find her.  He chose the German princess  Sophia Magdalene  of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. She lived from 1700-1770.  She belonged to the well-known  Hohenzollern family  ( which the last German emperor Wilhelm II also belonged to ). She was very religious ( Pietism ). And at the same time she lived in a very extravagant way. The...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: NOVEMBER 27 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 3 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 26 minutes – from 08.17 to 16.44. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today is called FACUNDUS DAY. The name comes from the Spaniard Facundus, who was tortured and beheaded because of his faith. It happened around 300 AC. In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT ACHAIRE – after a bishop in Doornik ( Tournai ) and Noyon ( now two places on each side of the Belgian-French border ). He died in 639.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1895: Alfred Nobel makes in Paris his will transferring most of his fortune to the Nobel Prize . TODAY’s QUESTION: Neandertal men :  What is the background? And where can you “meet” them? Just 12 km to the east of Düsseldorf you can visit your very old ancestor, the Neandertal Man .  He is mor...