TODAY - MAY 20

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 20

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 46 minutes longer than December 21.  Its length is 15 hours and 46 minutes – from 05.47 to 21.31.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

The name of this day is ANGELICA’s DAY. It is unknown where the name comes from. It is not a name of a saint. And it only came into the Almanach in 1727.

 

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT BERNARDIN – after an Italian Franciscan missionary and priest in Siena.  He lived in the years 1380 to 1444.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1927:  Charles Lindbergh starts the first trip by airplane across the Atlantic from the US to France.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

It comes from ancient Greece. The Greek poet Homer ( 8th century BC) writes in his book The Odyssey about the 10-year Greek siege of Troy in Asia Minor.  Then they built a huge horse of wood. A number of Greek soldiers were hiding inside the horse. Then the Trojans were tempted to bring the nice horse inside their city. And during the night the Greek soldiers came out and conquered and ravaged the city of Troja.

The expression a Trojan horse is, therefore, since used to describe a special war trick. The same method was used by some prisoners in a German KZ camp to get out of the camp hidden in a big box.

The indirect sense of the expression means that you use sneaky, hidden methods to obtain what you want.

In the Internet world a Trojan horse is a small programme, which looks useful, but which in reality risks destroying a lot in your computer.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Goulash barons – 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 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.

This has been said by the Danish politician and former EU Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

Real happiness you only find, if you adapt to the seasons of life in exactly the same way as you adapt to the seasons of the year.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1799:  Honoré de Balzac  ( died 1850 )

1806:  John Stuart Mill  ( died 1873 )

1882:  Sigrid Undset  ( died 1949 )

1908:  James Stewart  ( died 1997 )

1915:  Moshe Dayan  ( died 1981 )

1944:  Joe Cocker   ( died 2014 )    -  see photo.

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1506:  Christopher Columbus  ( 55 years )

1834:  La Fayette  ( 83 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


Joe Cocker


 

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