TODAY - January 15
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JANUARY 15
New 2021 edition
TODAY’s PERSON:
I have chosen the American civil rights leader MARTIN LUTHER KING,
Jr. He was born on this day in 1929 in
Atlanta, Georgia. He was a Baptist priest – like his father. And from 1955 he
was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
His most famous speech was I HAVE A DREAM at the huge
March on Washington on Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. About 250.000
people from all over the US were present.
After the speech he and other leaders met president John Kennedy ( who
was killed less than three months later ).
In 1964 King
received Nobel’s Peace Prize for his work.
He gave the full amount to the Civil Rights movement.
And in April 1968
he was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, 39 years old.
See photo of him
below.
TODAY’s NAME:
Today is called MAURUS’ DAY. He was a Benedictine monk,
who around 500 made missionary work in France. He made miracles and cured dumb
people and cripples. He also founded the
first Benedictine monastery in France, Glanfeuil, in Anjou in
the Loire region. And he died around 550
AC.
Maurus is the patron of the coppersmiths.
The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT REMI DE REIMS. He lived in the
years 437-533 and was bishop in Reims in France. He was in particur active in
helping the poor.
TODAY’s EVENT:
2001: Wikipedia starts
officially. It is the free on-line dictionary written by the readers
themselves. And which in comparison with Encyclopedia
Britannica and other similar works is considered more precise and
up-to-date.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
The holy flame –
where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?
This is the name of the permanent fire in the temples in the ancient times.
It is known from many religions. To the ancient Greeks fire was sacred. They
believed it had been stolen from the gods by Prometheus. In the Christian religion it is mentioned in
the Law of Moses, where God asks Moses to ensure that the flame on the alter
will burn permanently. From there comes the tradition with a burning lamp in
Jewish synagogues. It is also known in the Catholic church.
When you see a permanent flame on monuments for killed soldiers
in wars, f.ex. on the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris, is comes from the same tradition.
The Olympic flame has the
same origin. Some time in advance of Olympic games a special ceremony is
organized at the Mount
Olympus in Greece. The flame is ignited by the beams of the sun, and a torch
with the flame is transported over long distances, often by a runner, to the
place, where the games take place. At the end of the games the flame is
extinguished again.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Pandora’s Box – where does that come
from? And what does it mean?
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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
What is
nationalism? It is patrionism, which has lost its distinction.
This was said by the Danish priest and author Kaj Munk.
2. Today’s
quote:
I prefer a
pleasant vice to a boring virtue !
Who of today’s persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1622: Molière ( died 1673
) (original name: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
1900: William Heinesen ( died 1991 )
1906: Aristotle Onassis ( died 1975 )
1918: Gamal Abdal Nasser ( died 1970 )
1929: Martin Luther King ( died 1968 ) –
see above and below.
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1815: Lady Hamilton (54 years)
1919: Rosa Luxembourg (48 years)
1919: Karl Liebknecht (48 years)
1927: Harald Giersing ( 45 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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