TODAY - January 23

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JANUARY 23

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

I have this day selected the Catalan painter SALVADOR DALÍ.   He was born on this day in 1904 and died in 1989.  He wanted in his works to illustrate “the unconscious”. The power of imagination, as he said.  He studied the Austrian author Sigmund Freud a lot.    You can see about 2.400 of his works in the DALI MUSEUM in Petersburg in Florida in the US:

Dali Home - Salvador Dalí Museum (thedali.org)

You can also download several free app’s to your smartphone with his works.

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 51 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 8 hours and 48 minutes – from 08.30 to 17.19.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day’s name is EMERENTIA’s DAY. She was a woman, who according to the legend could help pregnant and childless women. But she was stoned to death by Roman soldiers because of her Christian faith in the year 304 AC.  She was buried next to her friend Agnes, who had been killed too for the same reason.

In the Middle Ages Emerentia was often called upon by pregnant women because they believed she could help sick babies.

The day’s name in Belgium is the same:  SAINTE EMÉRENCE

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1556:  History’s worst known earthquake takes place in China – 830.000 people killed.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Blue blood – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

This saying has its origin from Castillia in Spain. The local Castillians had a more light skin than the immigrants, who were were mostly moors and jews.  Due to their light skin you could more easily see the veins through the skin. The expression locally was and is:  sangre azul, which means blue blood.

Many Castillians at the time – at least the more known ones – were from the nobility. That is why the expression blue blood later has got the meaning it has today:  people of royal or noble families.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

A storm in a tea cup – where does that come from? And it means what?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Many women are only satisfied with their doctor, when they look badly in

a fascinating way.

This was said by the Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

        Unlimited power tends to make the minds of those people who have it corrupt

             Who among today's people have said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1783:  Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle )  ( died 1842 )

1832:  Eduard Manet  ( died 1883 )

1858:  Max Planck  ( died 1947 )

1898:  Sergei Eisenstein  ( died 1948 )

1904 : Salvador Dalí  ( died 1989 ) – see more above and below.

1928:  Jeanne Moreau  ( died 2017 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1803:  Arthur Guinness  ( 78 years )

1806:  William Pitt  ( 43 years )

1944:  Edvard Munch  ( 81 years )

1989:  Salvador Dali  ( 85 years )

2005:  Johnny Carson  ( 80 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

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