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  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 28 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 5 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 3 minutes – from 05.39 to 21.42. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called VILHELM’S DAY .  It has its name from Vilhelm ( in French: Guillaume ), who was duke of Gascogne . He was one of Charlemagne ’s closest allies, and they were fighting together against the Moors in Spain . Later he became a very religious man, and he founded a monastery. According to the legend he even became so religious that he was able to walk into a red-hot oven with getting harmed. And when he died in 812 AC the bells in his monastery started ringing all by themselves. In Belgium the day is called SAINT GERMAIN – after a bishop in Paris. He lived in the years 496-576 and founded the monestary Saint Germain des Prés.   TODAY’s EVEN...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 27 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 3 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 1 minute1 – from 05.40 to 21.40. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called LUCIAN’s DAY . He was a Christian who together with others of the same faith was killed in year 200 AC in the town Tomis at the Black Sea.   Tomis was placed where the Romanian city of Constanta is today. In Belgium the day is called SAINT AUGUSTIN – after a bishop in North Africa ( Alegeria ), who lived in the years 354-430.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1703:   The city Saint Petersburg in Russia is founded by zar Peter the Great.   TODAY’s QUESTION: Feather in one’s cap – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean? Feathers have in history always played a very important symbolic role.   The anci...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 26 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 1 minute longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 59 minutes – from 05.41 to 21.39. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called BEDA’s DAY   ( or BEDE’s DAY ). He was a monk and priest, who worked in England around 700 AC.   He was born in 672 in Northumbria . Already at the age of 7 he started at a monastery. Later he was also an author and a poet of psalms. And it was him who suggested that our calendar should start with the birth of Jesus. It was also Beda, who wrote a lot about religion in England before Christianity. A special expression comes from Beda: to pour oil on stormy waters .   This was what he suggested a young priest to do, when a storm was about to start. Beda died in 735 – 53 years of age. In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT PHILIPPE NÉRI...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 25 New 2021 version TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 59 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 56 minutes – from 05.42 to 21.38. See – also in English – information about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today is called URBANUS’ DAY . It has its name after pope Urbanus , who worked in the years 220-230. He was killed because of his belief in 230. He had together with other Christians been hiding in the catacombs in Rome . When he was arrested he did not want to give up his faith. That is why he was tortured and at the end beheaded. In Belgium the day is called SAINT BÈDE – after an English monk living in the years 672 to 735.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1901: Norway introduces as the first country in Europe voting right for women .   TODAY’s QUESTION: Money is the root of all evil – where does that expression come from? And means? This...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 24 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 56 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 54 minutes – from 05.43 to 21.37. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is ESTHER’s DAY .  It has its name from the Jewish girl Esther, who married the Persian king Xerxes . According to the Old Testament she did so to save the Jews from the persecutions of the Persians. In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINTS DONATIEN ET ROGATIEN .  They were two Christian brothers in Nantes in France, who were killed in 304.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1976:  The Concorde plane is making its first flight from London/Paris to Washington DC.   TODAY’s QUESTION: Silence is gold – where does that expression come from? And it means? This expression goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt . It later appe...