TODAY - November 27

 NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: NOVEMBER 27

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 3 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 26 minutes – from 08.17 to 16.44.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called FACUNDUS DAY. The name comes from the Spaniard Facundus, who was tortured and beheaded because of his faith. It happened around 300 AC.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT ACHAIRE – after a bishop in Doornik ( Tournai ) and Noyon ( now two places on each side of the Belgian-French border ). He died in 639.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1895: Alfred Nobel makes in Paris his will transferring most of his fortune to the Nobel Prize.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Neandertal men :  What is the background? And where can you “meet” them?

Just 12 km to the east of Düsseldorf you can visit your very old ancestor, the Neandertal Man.  He is more than 60.000 years old.

The village is called Mettmann and is very close to the motorway (Autobahn) from Wuppertal to Düsseldorf).   The valley is called Neandertal – created by the small river Düssel. It was named after the German writer and painter Joachim Neander (1650-80), who loved to come to this valley.

It was here that some workers in 1859 found human bones, which were examined by specialists. They came from human beings who lived there about 60.000 years go. They got the name the Neandertal Men.

Afterwards the place where they were found was forgotten. And it was rediscovered only about 50 years ago.

Now you can visit a very interesting Neandertal Museum in the village. It illustrates in a very lively way the development of mankind over thousands, even millions, of years. And the explanations are in German as well as in English.

See more here:  http://www.neanderthal.de/en/  

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QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Fifth column  -  what is the background for that expression?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Art nowadays is for most of it a box room , a museum of despair.

It was said by the Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

A diplomat is a person, who can change the drumming of the politicians to

soft harp music.

Who has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1701:  Anders Celsius  ( died 1744 )

1874:  Chaim Weizmann  ( died 1952 )

1921:  Alexander Dubcek  ( died 1992 )

1942:  Jimi Hendrix  ( died 1970 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

8 BC : Horatius  ( Quintus Horatius Flaccus )  ( 57 years )

1895:  Alexandre Dumas  ( 71 years )

1953:  Eugene O’Neill  ( 65 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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