TODAY - November 24

 NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: NOVEMBER 24

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 58 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 32 minutes – from 08.14 to 16.46.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is CHRYSOGONUS’ DAY.  He was a Christian, who was killed because of his faith during the persecutions during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. The legend tells that he was thrown into the sea, but that a fish brought him back to land. It happened around year 300 AC in the city of Aquileia in north-east Italy.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT ALBERT DE LOUVAIN – after a Belgian bishop and cardinal, who lived in the years 1166-92.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1642:  The Dutch discoverer Abel Tasman arrives at Van Diemens Land. This  island is later renamed as Tasmania.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Cobbler – stick to your last.

This expression goes all the way back to Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). His painter at the court was called Apelles. He was known to exhibit his works in such a way that he – without anybody noticing him – could study peoples’ reactions. One day he changed a detail on a shoe on a painting to see the reaction from visitors. A shoemaker noticed the mistake. But when he continued his criticism of the way the legs were painted Apelles could not stand listening to him anymore.  He said: A shoemaken should never judge anything but shoes. Later the expression has developed into today’s saying:  Coppler – stick to your last.

Today this expression means that you should never talk about things you don’t know anything about.

How the world would change, if everybody followed that rule J

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Belgium – what do you know about that country?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

    I was a father in the same way as I played the harp: I played by ear!

       This was once said by the American entertainer Harpo Marx.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

America is the only nation in the world, which miraculously has gone from

barbarism to degeneration without passing the usual step with civilization.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

 

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1632:  Baruch de Spinoza  ( died 1677 )

1864:  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec  ( died 1901 )

1868:  Scott Joplin  ( died 1917 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1929:  Georges Clemenceau  ( 88 years )

1963:  Lee Harvey Oswald  ( 34 years )

1991:  Freddie Mercury  ( “The Queen” )  ( 45 years )

2004:  Arthur Hailey  ( 84 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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  1. UnknownNovember 24, 2020 at 8:24 AM

    Belgium is the best country of the world, because it is my nation !

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