TODAY - MAY 16

 NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 16

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 35 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 33 minutes – from 05.53 to 21.26.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today it is SARA’s DAY.  It has the name from the wife of the patriarch Abraham ( from the old testament ). She was the mother of Isak.

In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINT JEAN NEPOMUCÈNE.  He was a Bohemian saint, who lived in the years 1345-93.  He was a confident of the queen. But when he refused to tell king Wenceslaus what she had told him the king ordered that he was drowned in the Moldau / Vltava river.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1966: The cultural revolution in China starts.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Red thread  - where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

You say:  A red thread goes through it! This is an expression which comes from the Royal British Navy. For centuries it had a serious problem about its ropes being stolen. And nobody could trace where it had gone. That is why they started to weave a red thread into all new ropes. This made it much easier to find the thieves and to bring the ropes back to the Navy.  This method is still in use.  And it has been further refined in the sense that each Navy base has its own colour of the thread.   The same method was used by the Danish Navy until 1900.

The expression a red thread through something means today that things are coherent.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Hocus pocus – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

 I only use newspapers to put in the bottom of my parrot cage!

              This was said by the American entertainer Frank Sinatra.

2.  Today’s quote:

I read a joke in a column about a guy, who played golf on Long Island. The professional player asked him about his handicap – and he replied:  I am black, a one-eyed Jew – do I need more?

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1905:  Henry Fonda  ( died 1982 )

1919:  Liberace  ( díed 1989 )

1955:  Olga Korbut  -  see photo.

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1830:  Joseph Fourier ( 62 years )

1990:  Sammy Davis, Jr.  ( 65 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


Olga Korbut - the Sparrow from Minsk


 

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