TODAY - December 6

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: DECEMBER 6

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 20 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 9 minutes – from 08.29 to 16.39.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called NICOLAUS’ DAY. It is named after bishop Nicolaus of Myra.  Myra was an ancient city in Greek Anatolya at the south coast of present day Turkey. The small town of Demre can be found at that place today.  Nicolaus lived in the 4th century AC.  The legend tells many stories about him. One is that he once during a sea voyage in a heavy storm managed to make the waves go quiet and thereby save many seamen in danger. He also did a lot for poor children. And he lived a very active Christian life. He dies around the year 350. And many pilgrims visited his grave afterwards.  The town of Demre still has a Christian church with the name of St. Nicolaus Church. It has just been renovated.

In the year 1087 people from the city of Bari in the south of Italy decide to find Nicolaus’s grave in Anatolia. They find it and bring his relics with them back to Bari. They are still here. You find them in the St. Nicolaus church in the center of the city.

Nicolaus is the patron for children, seamen –  lawyers and pawnbrokers.

At the same time he is the model for Santa Claus. He is the man who brings presents to the kids – either today at St. Nicolaus’ Day, or at Christmas eve on December 24. The habits are different from country to country.

Today is also one of the 32 so-called Tycho Brahe Days. They are particular days, which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century during his calculations appointed as particular unfortunate.  What old nonsense J

An old Danish weather warning for December 6 says that today’s weather will be the weather for the rest of this month.

And perhaps even more important:  this day – Nicolaus’ Day – is the name day for some of us:   for me  ( we are 34.792 Danes with that name 😊 ),

For my eldest son Claus ( 21.530 Danes are called Claus ) and for my Greek son-in-law, Nikos.

The tradition to celebrate name days instead of birthdays was abolished in Denmark after the Reformation in 1536.  But we sometime do both 😊  

And warm congratulations to all with name day today!

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1926:  Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, introduces a special tax on bachelors.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

How much does everything move in space?

Most people know that our Earth is turning around its own axis. Do you know with what speed? 465 meters per second. But this is not our only move every second.  Our Earth is circling around the Sun with an average speed of 29,8 km per second. And furthermore, our solar system, called the Milky Way, is also constantly turning around its axis. And it does it with a speed of 250 km per second.

So if you feel that everything is on the move, you are right!  We are all moving – day and night – 280,3 km every second. So think twice before you next time say: Stop the world, I want to get off!

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Chinese wedding jar – 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:

Amateurs do what they can. Dilettants what they cannot do.

            This was said by the famous American film man Walt Disney.  He was special in

            many ways. When he died he was at his own orders put into a freezer. Why?

            Because he was sure that when he some day was unfrozen he could wake up

            again.

2.  Today’s quote:

I think that men in this world should become less mannish and women less isolated.

The wife of one of today’s men said that to her husband. Who?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1885:  Birger Sjöberg  ( died 1929 )

1898:  Gunnar Myrdal  ( died 1987 )

1942:  Herbjørg Wassmo

1963:  Ulrich Thomsen

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1875:  Peter Heering  ( 83 years )

1889:  Jefferson Davis  ( 81 years )

1892:  Werner von Siemens  ( 76 years )

1988:  Roy Orbison  ( 52 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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




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