TODAY - April 2

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: APRIL 2

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 5 hours and 2 minutes longer that December 21. Its length is 13 hours– from 07.16 to 20.16.

See more – also in English – on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called THEDOSIUS DAY.  It comes from the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great, who lived in the years 348-395.  He was emperor from 379 until his death. And he was the last emperor, who governed over the whole Roman empire.  He came from an officers family in Spain, and before he became emperor he was fighting in England, on the Balkans and against the Gothians. After his death the Roman empire was divided in two for his two sons.

It was also during his reign that Christianity definitively won over all other religions. In the year 380 Sunday became a permanent weekly holiday. And from 394 the Olympic Games  were forbidden, because they were seen as a non-religious event.

In Belgium the day is called SAINTE SANDRINE – after an Italian Christian, who founded a monastery in Foligno in the 16th century. The name Sandrine comes from Greek Sandre, a diminutive of Alexander.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1801:  The sea battle of Copenhagen between Denmark and Britain.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

To be high-hatted – where does that come from? And what does it mean?

This is an American expression. You say: he is high-hatted  or wearing a high hat. The expression is also used in other languages, incl. Danish and Norwegian.

In all cases it means to feel superior to others – to be arrogant.

And why use this expression for that state of mind?  Probably because upper class people in the old days were wearing a high black hat. The ordinary citizen often felt – for good or bad reasons – that these people actually were arrogant and felt they were superiour. Therefore, it became easy to make a parallel between high hat and feeling supercilicious.

Some people think that the expression is linked to Napoleon, who always was wearing a high hat – the so-called bicôme with two corners.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Danish (food) – what is its history? And what is it?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

There are never so many lies as before playing whist, during a war and after hunting.

            That was said by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.  See photo.

2.  Today’s quote:

A woman’s heart is like a mailbag. It is full of sealed letters, but it does not know itself what is inside.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

747:    Charlemagne  ( died 814 )

1725:  Giovanni Giacomo Casanova  ( died 1798 )

1805:  Hans Christian Andersen  ( died 1875 )

1840:  Emile Zola  ( died 1902 )

1914:  Hans Wegner  ( died 2007 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1872:  Samuel Morse  ( 81 years )

2005:  Pope John Paul II  ( 84 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


Otto von Bismarck




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