TODAY - December 12

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: DECEMBER 12

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 28 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 2 minutes – from 08.36 to 16.38.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called EPIMACHUS’ DAY.  He was a Christian living in Alexandria around year 200 AC. Together with many other Christians he was tortured and at the end thrown alive on the fire and killed.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINTE JEANNE DE CHANTAL. She was a French nun, who lived in the years 1572-1638.  She founded a nun’s order.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1911:  Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Open people’s eyes to something  -  where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

This expression comes from the Bible, the book of Leviticus. It tells about Adam and Eve coming to the Garden of Eden. When they come to the tree of knowledge and eat its apples, their eyes open. And they realise that they are naked.

The meaning of the expression today is that you make somebody interested in something – or at least put his or her attention to it. You open their eyes.  You can see that, can’t you ?!

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

The Foreign Legion  -  what is that? And what is the history behind it?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

When a film is a success it is business.  When it is not a success it is art.

            It was said by the Italian film director, Carlo Ponti – the husband of Sophia Loren.

2.  Today’s quote:

A cynic is a person, who considers everybody else to be as mean as he is himself.

Who has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1863:  Edvard Munch  ( died 1944 )

1893:  Edward G. Robinson  ( died 1973 )

1912:  Thorbjørn Egner  ( died 1990 )

1915:  Frank Sinatra  ( died 1998 )

1940:  Dionne Warwick

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1939:  Douglas Fairbanks  ( 56 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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