TODAY - January 25

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JANUARY 25

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

My choice today is the British author VIRGINIA WOOLF.  She was born in London on this day in 1882 and died 59 years old in 1941.  She is considered to be one of the most important modernist authors in the 20th century and had her books published in more than 50 languages.  Her most well-known books are:  Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Orlando: A Biography (1928), To the Lighthouse (1927), A Room of One’s Own (1929), The Waves (1931) and Between the Acts (1941).

She was very popular among the feminists in the 1970ies, because they often felt inspired by her.

Virginia Woolf was hit by mental illness, tried suicide twice and drowned herself in 1941.

One of her very well-known quotations is:  To think well, to love well, to sleep well you have to eat well !

See photo below.

 

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 56 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 8 hours and 54 minutes – from 08.28 to 17.22.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called PAUL’s CONVERSION DAY. The name comes from the Jewish Pharisee Saulus, who was persecuting the Christians very actively.  He became blind, and when he later got his sight back again he converted to Christianity. After that he took the name Paul, which in Latin means “the small” or “the inferiour”.  He became the missionary for the pagans. And later he was executed in Rome.

The day’s name in Belgium is the same:  CONVERSION DE SAINT PAUL.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

2011:  The Egyptian revolution starts.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

A bed of roses – where does that come from? And means what?

This expression comes from the time of the decay of the Roman empire around the 3rd and 4th century AC. People did a lot of decadent things in that period. One of them was to have roses in masses all over the place – to live with lots of roses everywhere and at all times. The beds were often filled with leaves of roses. The floors were covered with roses. This habit was sometime continued in the Middle Ages at special occasions.

So the expression a bed of roses still today means that you have a good life. A life without problems.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

To paint the town red – where does that come from? And 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:

A democracy is a state, where an open exchange of opinions does not end with a funeral.

            This is a typical quote from Winston Churchill.

2.  Today’s quote:

The ideal husband is – according to American women – a butler, who has the income of a director-general.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

 

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1759:  Robert Burns  ( died 1796 )

1874:  William Somerset Maugham  ( died 1965 )

1882:  Virginia Woolf  ( died 1941 ) – see above and below.

1928:  Eduard Shevardnadse  ( died 2014 )

1942:  Eusebio  (died 2014)

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1559:  King Christian 2.  ( 78 years )

1947:  Al Capone  ( 48 years )

1990:  Ava Gardner  ( 68 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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