TODAY - MAY 21

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 21

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 49 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 47 minutes – from 05.46 to 21.33.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day’s name is HELENE’s DAY. It is called after the mother of emperor Constantine the Great, Helene. She found the cross of Jesus in Jerusalem and became a Christian. She built a number of churches, including the Church of the Cross in Bethlehem and the Apostles Church in Constantinopel ( nowadays Istanbul ). Helene died in 329 AC.

Today is also the United Nations’ international World Day for cultural diversity in dialogue and development.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT BERNARDIN – after a Catholic priest and missionary from Siena in Italy.  He lived in the years 1380-1444.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1851: Gold is found in Australia.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Goulash barons – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

During World War I the German troops were most of the time eating canned food, especially goulash in many forms. The soldiers called their kitchens in the field Gullasch-Kanonen!  A large part of it was imported from neutral countries, including Denmark.  And its quality was often very poor.  And in those countries many people became very rich very quickly because of that export.  Many of them were boasting with their money.  So the word Goulash Barons is pretty negative.  It was in many ways be compared with today’s Nouveaux Riches from Russia and China.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Guests and fish smell badly on the third day:   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:

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.

            This was said by the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset.   See photo.

2.  Today’s quote:

A woman is not more sure about her lover after she has lost her beauty than a man is sure of his friends after he lost his fortune.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1527:  King Philip II  ( died 1598 )

1688:  Alexander Pope ( died 1764 )

1904:  Fats Waller  ( died 1943 )

1921:  Andrej Sakharov  ( died 1989 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

337:    Constantine the Great  ( 55 years )

1481:  Christian I  ( 55 years )

1895:  Franz von Suppé   ( 74 years )

1991:  Rajiv Gandhi  ( 47 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


Sigrid Undset - 1928


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