TODAY - MAY 26

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 26

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 1 minute longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 59 minutes – from 05.41 to 21.39.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called BEDA’s DAY  ( or BEDE’s DAY ). He was a monk and priest, who worked in England around 700 AC.  He was born in 672 in Northumbria. Already at the age of 7 he started at a monastery. Later he was also an author and a poet of psalms. And it was him who suggested that our calendar should start with the birth of Jesus.

It was also Beda, who wrote a lot about religion in England before Christianity.

A special expression comes from Beda: to pour oil on stormy waters.  This was what he suggested a young priest to do, when a storm was about to start.

Beda died in 735 – 53 years of age.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT PHILIPPE NÉRI – after an Italian priest, who was the second apostle in Rome after Peter.  He lived in the years 1515-95.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1924: The US makes limits to immigration and stops it totally for Japanese and others.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Paint the town red – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

This expression comes from the US. Originally it comes from an Irish-American ballade, which says:  the beacon hills were painted red.  It referred to a tradition that the hills with the beacons were actually now and then painted red to signal that a big festival was about to start.

There is also proof that the expression comes from the Missisippi river.  The captain of an old steam ship had big difficulties in competition with the new steam ships. One day he said to his crew:  Paint her red, boys!  From then on his business was very good again.

In German you talk about Rot anstreichen (to paint something red). It refers to the tradition that you make a red mark in your calendar/diary for days when some festivities are expected to happen.

Nowadays the expression to paint the town red is – as you know – still used.  It means you are going to have a great evening out. Normally without painting anywhere.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Feather in one’s cap – 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:

Without being enthusiastic you never obtain anything great!

            This was said by the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2.  Today’s quote:

In my view women have the right to work where they want to, as long as dinner is served as soon as I come home!

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1810:  Christian Købke  ( died 1848 )

1886:  Al Jolson  ( died 1950 )

1907:  John Wayne  ( died 1979 )

1926:  Miles Davis  ( died 1991 )   -  see photo. And listen to his music.

1968:  Crown prince Frederik

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1762:  Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten  ( 48 years )

1976:  Martin Heidegger  ( 87 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


                                                                             Miles Davis


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