TODAY - MAY 23

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 23

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 54 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 52 minutes – from 05.44 to 21.35.

See – also in English – how it is where you are:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called DESIDERIUS’ DAY.  It has its name after two different French bishops with the same name. They were both executed.

 

The first one was a bishop in Viennes in the south of France. He was killed in 364 AC.

The other one was a bishop in Langres in the Champagne area. He was stoned to death at the order of queen Brunhilde, because he had critisized her immoral life. It happened in 607 AC.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT GILBERT – after an English nobleman, who founded the Order of the Gilbertines.  He was of Norman origin like William the Conqueror and lived in the years 1085-1189.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1949:  The Federal Republic of Germany starts with Bonn as its capital.


TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

It comes from the word googol. It is a huge figure: a 1 followed by one hundred zeros.

The company Google probably uses it to indicate that it is the source of an incredible amount of information. Which is true.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Silence is gold – where does that expression come from? And it means?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

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

            This was said by the British actor Lawrence Olivier.

2.  Today’s quote:

You have to lose a lot to get a lot.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1707:  Carl von Linné   ( died 1778 )

1834:  Carl Bloch  ( died 1890 )

1848:  Otto Liljenthal  ( died 1896 )

1891:  Pär Lagerkvist  ( died 1974 )

1933:  Joan Collins

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1886:  Henrik Ibsen  ( 58 years )

1937:  John D. Rockefeller ( 98 years )

1945:  Heinrich Himmler  ( 45 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


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