TODAY - DECEMBER 17

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: DECEMBER 17

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 31 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 7 hours and 58 minutes – from 08.40 to 16.38.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called ALBINA’s DAY.  She was a young Christian girl, who was killed because of her faith around 250 AC. She lived in Formio in Catania in Italy.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTE WIVINE. She lived in the years 1103-70. She was a French-Belgian Benedictine-nun, who founded a monastery in Flanders.  She also lived as a hermit part of her life.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1903:  The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first flight in history with a motorized airplane, which is heavier than the air.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Coffee  -- what is the history behind it?

Coffee is very old. It goes back to the 6th century AC, when a shepherd looking after his goats discovered, that his goats got very excited, when they were chewing the berries from a special tree. It took place in a place called Kaffe in Yemen in the south of the Arabian peninsular.

But it was only about 800 years later that somebody got the idea to roast the berries/beans and make a drink from them. Coffee had been invented – and it got its name from the place called Kaffe (coffee, café).

Until then it was only grown in the south of Arabia and in Ethiopia. Later it was exported to many places like South America by the Spanish and Java in Indonesia by the Dutch.

At an early stage the Coffee Houses got a great importance as meeting places. Not least in the Middle East due to Islam’s prohibition against wine and alcohol. The first coffee house in Europe was started in Venezia in 1645, and the European coffee houses and cafés became very important as centres for political, literary and scientific discussions. The Coffee House was the place from where news was spreading, and many of the British Empire’s institutions have directly been founded in the coffee houses in London.

So when you next time visit a Café you are expected to think great thoughts and breathtaking plans for the future!

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Werewolf  -  what is that? And what history is linked to it?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Denmark is coming close to being as dull as the dialing tone on the telephone.

            This was said by the Danish scientist, architect and author Piet Hein.

2.  Today’s quote:

As none of today’s persons has left important quotations you get one more by Piet Hein:

An ideologist can defend a case so strongly that everybody can understand that it is very weak.

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1840:  C.F.E. Hornemann  ( died 1906 )

1936:  Tommy Steele

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1839:  Simon Bolivar  ( 56 years )

1907:  Lord Kelvin  ( 83 years )

1909:  Leopold II  ( 74 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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