TODAY - December 28

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: DECEMBER 28

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH :

This day is here in Belgium 2 minutes longer than December 21 !  Its length is 8 hours – from 08.44 to 16.44.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is CHILDREN’s DAY. This is remembrance of the child killings in Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. The day is also called the innocent children’s day. They were ordered by king Herod.  In this way he hoped to kill Jesus.

In Belgium the name of the day is the same:  SAINTS INNOCENTS.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1973:  Alexander Solzhenytsin publishes his famous book “ The Gulag Archipelago”.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Honeymoon  -  where does this word come from? And what does it mean?

The old English expression hony moone from the 16th century was the name for the very first days in the marriage of newly weds.  That was where they started their new life and probably also laid the ground for a larger family.  In the early 19th century it became a habit for new couples (in the upper classes) in England that they went on a trip immediately after the wedding. They were often accompanied by family and friends on the trip. They either went to see family, who had not been able to come to the wedding. Or to other places. The French Riviera and Italy ( Rome, Verona and Venice) were the most popular places.   In France the same habit started in the 1820’es (“English style voyages”). And in the so-called Belle Epoque ( 1871-1914) the honeymoon trips were in a way the start of mass tourism.

In Denmark honeymoon is called hvedebrødsdage (white bread days). Why? Because normally people in the old days only had rye bread to eat.  In the days after the wedding they had the more expensive wheat breat or white bread for a few days.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Keelhauling  -  what is that?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

  1. Yesterday’s quote:

Older women often look younger that young ones, because they have more experience than the young in the art on how to look young.

            This was said by the German-American actress Marlene Dietrich.

 

2.    Today’s quote:

I use not only my own brain, but also those I can borrow.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

 

3.    Famous people born on this day:

1856:  Woodrow Wilson  ( died 1924 )  -   see photo below.

1903:  Earl Hines  ( died 1983 )

1903:  John von Neumann  ( died 1957 )

1925:  Hildegard Knef  ( died 2002 )

1953:  Richard Clayderman

 

4.    Famous people died on this day:

1937:  Maurice Ravel  ( 62 years )

1952:  Queen Alexandrine  ( 73 years )

1963:  Paul Hindemith  ( 68 years )

2004:  Susan Sontag  ( 71 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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




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