TODAY - November 22

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: NOVEMBER 22

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 51 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 39 minutes – from 08.10 to 16.48.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day’s name is CECILIA’s DAY. She lived in the 2nd century AD, was born in Rome under the name Caecilia. She is known for having convinced her husband to become a Christian in their wedding bed. They were both killed in Sicily by the soldiers of the Roman emperor because of that.

Cecilia is considered a saint in the Catholic, the Orthodox as well as in the Anglican church.

Cecilia is the patron for musicians, for poets and for blind people.

Many interesting events took place over the years on this day.  The Danish king Erik Klipping was murdered in a barn in Jutland in the night ( 37 years old ).  The British researcher Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tut Ankh Amon in this day in 1922. 

The day’s name in Belgium is the same:  SAINTE CÉCILE.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1963:  President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

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

He was the city state Venezia’s great discoverer and important merchant, Marco Polo. He lived in the years 1254-1324. In his younger years he went with his father on an expedition to Central Asia and China. They were away for 24 years. The story tells that Marco Polo at a certain moment was mayor of Peking. When they came back home Venezia was at war with the city state of Genova. And Marco Polo was put into prison in Genova. In was here he dictated his travel descriptions to another prisoner.

You can say that Marco Polo was inspiring Christopher Columbus, when he travel westwards a couple of hundred years later. He was, by the way, born in Genova.

The airport of Venezia is today named after Marco Polo.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Cimbrians – who were they?

 

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Prejudices is the reason of the fools.

            This was said by Voltaire.

2.  Today’s quote:

Who can govern a country with 400 different cheeses?

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1819:  George Eliot  ( real name: Mary Ann Evans )  ( died 1880 )

1890:  Charles de Gaulle  ( died 1970 )

1913:  Benjamin Britten  ( died 1976 )

1934:  Östen Warnerbring  ( died 2006 )

1965:  Mads Mikkelsen

1967:  Boris Becker

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1916:  Jack London  ( 40 years )

1963:  John F. Kennedy  ( 46 years )

1963:  Aldous Huxley  ( 64 years )

1963:  C.S. Lewis  ( 64 years )

1980:  Mae West  ( 87 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 22, 2020 at 5:53 AM

    Je croyais que c' était la main gauche sur le coeur......quand on chante l' hymne national ....

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