TODAY - November 18

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: NOVEMBER 18

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 40 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 49 minutes – from 08.03 to 16.53.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called HESYCHIUS DAY.  He was a soldier, who did not accept to make sacrifices to idols. He was tied to a big stone and thrown into the sea. This happened around 300 AC.

This day is also one of the 32 so-called Tycho Brahe Days. They are days, which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the 17th century based on his calculations appointed as particularly unfortunate.  What old nonsense L 

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT ODON.  He was a French abbot, who lived in the years 878-942.  He is a saint in the Catholic as well as in the Orthodox church.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1626:  Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome is inaugurated.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Marianne - she is a symbol for which country? Why?

This name is used about France. It was started by the revolutionaries during the French revolution. It is mentioned for the first time in 1792. It symbolizes the republic – in contrast to the then very male dominated French monarchy. And it stands for liberty and reason. The name is made from the two most common female names in France at that time:  Marie (Mary) and Anne.

The name Marianne is today still used by all French authorities. It has its own special logo:


It is also the Marianne figure and its meaning, which inspired France’s gift to the United States in 1886: The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Anglo-saxons  - who were and are they ?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        Normally you have a good relationship to women before the wedding - and

             after the divorce. It's the time in between, which is difficult.

             This was said by the American actor Rock Hudson - though he was known as 

              being gay

2.  Today’s quote:

        War is like spiders, who destroy their own cobweb.

             Who has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1786:  Carl Maria von Weber  ( died 1826 )

1901:  George Horace Gallup  ( died 1984 )

1944:  Suzanne Brøgger

1963:  Peter Schmeichel

1968:  Owen Wilson

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1922:  Marcel Proust  ( 51 years )

1962:  Niels Bohr  ( 77 years )

1991:  Gustav Husak ( 78 years )

2002:  James Coburn  ( 74 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


 

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