TODAY - November 20

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: NOVEMBER 20

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 46 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 44 minutes – from 08.07 to 16.50.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called VOLKAMARUS’ DAY.  The origin of this name is not known. It is probably an unknown saint.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT EDMOND. He lived in the years 841-69 and was a king in East Anglia in England.  He was born in Nürnberg in Germany.   That is all which is known about him.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1945:  The trial against the leading Nazi war criminals starts in Nürnberg.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

The name IRENE - where does it come from? And what does it mean?

This name comes from the pious Irene, who lived in Saloniki (in present day Greece) in the beginning of the 4th century. She was a Christian. Therefore, she was like other Christians persecuted by the Roman emperor Diocletian. And when the Roman soldiers discovered that she had Christian books and did not want to give up her faith she was together with her two sisters Agape and Chionia and all the books put on the fire in Saloniki in 304. Before that they were taken naked to a local brothel. But nobody touched them.

The name Irene comes from Greek and means Peace.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Murphy's law  -  what is that? And where does the expression come from?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from outside. It has to come from

             inside.

             This was once said by the Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.

2.  Today’s quote:

        Peace is the same for the country as health is for the body.

             Who among today's persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1858:  Selma Lagerlöf  ( died 1940 )

1889:  Edwin Hubble  ( died 1953 )

1912:  Otto von Habsburg  ( died 2011 )

1923:  Nadine Gordimer   (died 2014)

1925:  Robert F. Kennedy  ( died 1968 )

1948:  Barbara Hendricks

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1894:  Anton Rubinstein  ( 65 years )

1909:  P.S. Krøyer  ( 58 years )

1910:  Lev Tolstoj  (  82 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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