TODAY - MAY 22

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 22

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 51 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 49 minutes – from 05.45 to 21.34.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is CASTUS’ DAY.  He was a young Roman from Carthage. He was like his friend Aemilius a Christian. Therefore, they were both imprisoned during emperor Decius’ persecution of all Christians. In the beginning they denied their faith. But when they later admitted their religion they were burnt alive in Carthago in the year 250 AC.

Today is the United Nations’ international day for biological diversity.

In Belgium the day is called SAINTE RITA DE CASCIA – from an Italian nun living in the years 1381-1457.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1892:  The American dentist Washinton Sheffield invented the tube for tooth paste. Until now tooth paste had been kept in jars.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Guests and fish smell badly on the third day:   Where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

The expression comes from ancient Greece. The first time it has been written down was by the Roman comedy author Plautus ( about 200 BC). He was often rewriting Greek comedies.  In his book “The Boasting Soldier” he has this sentence: No friend is so welcome that he won’t be a nuisance after 3 days in a friend’s house.  And to combine this with the smell of half-rotten fish makes the point come clearer through. Everybody knows how that smells L

Today the expression still means that you should always consider not to stay too long, when you make a visit

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Google – where does that word come from? And what is it?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’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.

            This was once said by the British poet Alexander Pope.

2.  Today’s quote:

A classic is an author, who is still quoted, but not read anymore.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1813:  Richard Wagner  ( died 1883 )

1907:  Lawrence Olivier  ( died 1989 )

1907:  Hergé  ( Georges Prosper Remi ) ( died 1983 )

1924:  Charles Aznavour  ( died 2018 )  - See photo.

1946:  George Best  ( died 2005 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1885:  Victor Hugo  ( 83 years )

1972:  Margaret Rutherford  ( 80 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


Charles Aznavour


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