TODAY - December 5

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: DECEMBER 5

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 19 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 8 hours and 11 minutes – from 08.28 to 16.39.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called SABINA’s DAY. She founded a monastery in Palestine, and she dies around 532.

In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT SABBAS.  He lived in the years 439-532. He was born in Damascus, was a monk and a priest and founded a number of monasteries in Palestine. 

I believe that the two saints are the same person – though the first in presented as a woman and the second as a man.  This is perhaps creative religious history!

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1926:  Sergei Eisenstein’s film “Battleship Potemkin” is shown for the first time.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Coptic  -  what is that? And what is the history behind it?

This is the name of the ancient Egyptian language, which written down with the Greek alphabet was preserved as the liturgical language in the Coptic church. It died out as a spoken language around year 1600. The name comes from the Greek word on Egyptian.

The Coptic church has about 2 million Christian descendants from the Antique’s Egyptians in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine.  Its patriarch lives in Cairo.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

How much do everything move in space?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Give me six lines in writing about the most honest man. And I will find a pretext to hang him.

            This was said by the French prime minister, the Catholic cardinal Richelieu. He

             was a man fancying total power. So much so, that he despite being a Catholic

             cardinal let France join the Protestant countries in the Thirty Years’ War.

2.  Today’s quote:

Amateurs do what they can. Dilettants what they cannot do.

Who among today’s persons said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1867:  Jozef Pilsudski  ( died 1935 )

1901:  Werner Heisenberg  ( died 1976 )

1901:  Walt Disney  ( died 1966 )

1946:  Jose Carreras

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1791:  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  ( 37 years )

1870:  Alexandre Dumas  ( 68 years )

1926:  Claude Monet  ( 86 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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