TODAY - MAY 19

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 19

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 44 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 41 minutes – from 05.49 to 21.30.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called POTENTIANA’s DAY.  It has its name from a 16 year old Roman girl, who together with her sister Praxedis was killed by the Roman emperor in the year 160 AC because of her Christian faith.

In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINT YVES.  He was a saint, who lived in the years 1253-1303.  He was a lawyer for the poor in Bretagne.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1536:  Anne Boleyn, the second wife of king Henry VIII, is beheaded.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Vessel of the Danaids -  what is the origin? And what does it mean?

Danaos or Danaus was in Greek mythology the son of a king in Egypt. He had 50 daughters – called the Danaids. They were forced to marry 50 men. But when 49 of then during the wedding night killed their husbands they were afterwards condemned to pour water into a vessel, which had no bottom. And according to the legend they continue to do that all the time until this very day.   In other words:  this is a work which never ends.

 

So the expression the vessel of the Danaids refers to a task, which is futile and useless, and which never ends.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Trojan horse – what is the history?  And what does it mean today?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

A bit of fear for something concrete is good. It reduces the much bigger fear for something unknown.

            This is said by the Austrian author, Robert Musil.

2.  Today’s quote:

I do not think that love has very much to do with candle lights and roses. It is much about the WILL to love, that you make an effort. That you use time for it.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1760:  Antoine Bournonville  ( died 1843 )

1881:  Kemal Atatürk  ( died 1938 )

1890:  Ho Chi Minh  ( died 1969 )

1941:  Ritt Bjerregaard

4.  Famous people died on this day:

       1536:  Anne Boleyn  ( 35 years )

1994:  Jacqueline Kennedy  ( 65 years )  - see photo.

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis


 

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