TODAY - January 19
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JANUARY 19
New 2021 edition
TODAY’s PERSON:
Every
day I enclose a photo of a person in the news. Today I have chosen
the Danish author THIT JENSEN. She
was born on this day in 1876 and died in 1957. She
became famous for a number of reasons, especially for her books about the
liberalisation of women. And at a time when this was not yet
generally promoted. See much more on Wikipedia. In 1923 she started
the association for "Voluntary Motherhood". And the following year
another association for "Information about Sexual Matters".
See photo below.
TODAY’s NAME:
Today’s name is PONTIANUS’ DAY. He was a Christian
martyr, who had to suffer a very violent death because of his faith. He was
whipped, walked on burning coal, had liquid plomb poured into his mouth. At the
end he was thrown to the lions. But as they would not touch him he was at the
end beheaded. It all happened in the year 160 AC.
The day’s name in Belgium is
SAINT MARIUS. He was French lived in the years 532-94 and was bishop in
Avenches in Switzerland.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1879: Anne Bates in Ohio gave birth to the heaviest baby
boy ever : 76 cm long and weighing 10,8 kg.
The boy died 11 days after his birth.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Parkinson’s Law – what
is that – and does it say?
The British
historian Cyril
Northcote Parkinson (1909-93) wrote in 1958 a book, where he presented his
laws about how the public sector almost automatically grows and grows. One of
the laws says: an official wants to increase the number of his subordinates, not of
his competitors. Another law goes like this: the
officials create work for each other. That is why the number of officials
increases progressively even if the work does not increase. It even does so if
the number of tasks decreases. And a
third law: the budget costs increase without obvious reasons as progressively as
the number of officials.
The term Parkinson’s Law has later become a often
used concept, which means that the public sector grows and grows automatically.
It is not a positive concept. When somebody says that this is Perkinson’s Law
he is of the opinion that things are going too far. And that something has to
be done about it.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Sisyphean labour – where
does that come from? And what does it mean?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
The tyranny of a
prince in an oligarchi is not as dangerous to public well-being
as the apathy of citizens in a democracy.
This was once said by the French
political philosopher Montesquieu.
2.
Today’s quote:
Modesty is a
quality, which comes from the consciousness of own power.
Who among today’s persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1736: James Watt ( died 1819 )
1798: Auguste Comte ( died 1857 )
1807: Robert E. Lee ( died 1870 )
1809: Edgar Allan Poe ( died 1849 )
1839: Paul Cézanne ( died 1906 )
1876: Thit Jensen ( died 1957 ) - see above and below.
1923: Markus Wolf ( died 2006 )
1943: Janis Joplin ( died 1970 )
1946: Dolly Parton
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1990: Herbert Wehner ( 84 years )
1994: Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis ( 64 years )
1998: Carl Perkins ( 66 years )
2007: Hrant Dink ( 53 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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