TODAY - June 4

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JUNE 4

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 18 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 16 minutes – from 05.33 to 21.49.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is OPTATUS’ DAY.  He was a bishop in Numidia in North Africa ( nowadays Algeria ) around year 400 AC. He was a very skilled theologian, who was fighting against false doctrines in the church.

This day is also called the Day of Sacraments.

And it is the United Nations’ international day for children, who have been victims of aggression and abuse.

In Belgium the day’s name is BIENHEUREUSE ÈVE  - a Christian hermit who lived in Liège and died in 1266.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1783:  The brothers Montgolfier presented for the first time publicly their hot air balloon  ( now called a montgolfiere ).

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Like a cat round hot milk – where does that come from? And it means?

This is an expression, which goes several hundred years back. In English literature it appears for the first time in 1855, and it becomes very much used very quickly.

The original meaning was, of course, that a hungry cat is very hesitant to put its tongue or paw into very hot milk. It does not want to burn it. On the other hand it does not leave, because it continues to be very tempted. It walks several times around it and hopes for “cooler times”.

The sentence also got the present day indirect meaning that people are hesitant to do things they perhaps are afraid of or do not know much about. They postpone doing it for as long as possible. They hurry up slowly.  But they normally do it at the end.

The saying Danish is not about milk, but about porridge – hot porridge.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Endomondo – what is that? And what can it be used for?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

I think we have to read books, which hurt and perforate us… A book has to be the axe to the frozen lake inside us.

            This was said by the Czech author Franz Kafka.

2.  Today’s quote:

I think I could get away with exhibiting a pencil box and call it art. People do not know a colour is red before they are told so.

Whom among today’s persons can have said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1867:  Carl Gustaf Mannerheim  ( died 1951 )

1912:  Robert Jacobsen  ( died 1993 )

1924:  Dennis Weaver  ( died 2006 )

1971:  Joseph Kabila

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1798:  Giacomo Casanova  ( 73 years )  - see photo.

1809:  N.A. Abildgaard  ( 66 years )

1941:  Emperor Wilhelm II  ( 82 years )

1942:  Reinhard Heydrich  ( 38 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


                                                            Giacomo Casanova, Jr. 

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