TODAY - November 21

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: NOVEMBER 21

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 48 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 41 minutes – from 08.08 to 16.49.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called MARY’s SACRIFICE DAY. This was the day, when Mary as a child was presented in the Temple in Jerusalem.

In Belgium the day’s name is the same:  PRÉSENTATION DE NÔTRE DAME.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1995:  In Dayton, Ohio, the so-called Dayton agreement was signed. It made peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

It comes from England. We don’t know exactly, who this Murphy was. But it is certain that it refers to an Irishman (Murphy is a typical Irish name). This Irishman was electrician. And the English had no confidence in his technical skills. Things always went wrong, when he tried to do something.

In this way the expression Murphy’s Law came to mean, that if anything can go wrong it will go wrong.

This is not nice or just to the Irish.  But history and traditions are not always nice and just L

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Marco Polo - who was he? And which history is linked to him?

 

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

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

             This was once said by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.

2.  Today’s quote:

Prejudices is the reason of the fools.

Who of today's personalities has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1694:  Voltaire (full name:  Francois-Marie Arouet)  ( died 1778 )

1787:  Samuel Cunard  ( died 1865 )

1898:  René Magritte  ( died 1967 )

1939:  Etta Cameron  ( died 2010 )

1965:  Björk (Gudmundsdottir)

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1695:  Henry Purcell  ( 36 years )

1916:  Franz Joseph I  ( 86 years )

2006:  Pierre Amine Gemayel  ( 34 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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