TODAY - January 27
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JANUARY 27
New 2021 Edition
TODAY’s PERSON:
I have selected WOLFGANG AMADEUS
MOZART. He is born on this day in 1756 and died only 35 years old in
1791. He started to write music already
when he was 5 years old. When he was 8
he visited together with his dad Saint Peter’s church in Rome and listened to
the singing of a large choir. When he
came home he wrote down all parts of the music.
And when he was nine he wrote his first symphony: “Symphony for 10 instruments in 3 movements”.
Altogher he
wrote about 600 pieces of music, incl. 50 symphonies and 22 operas ( like the
Wedding of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi van Tutte and the Magic Fluite. See much more in Wikipedia and elsewhere.
Or perhaps you have seen the 1984 film AMADEUS. Photo of Mozart below.
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is 1
hour and 2 minutes longer than December 21 here in Belgium. Its length is 9 hours – from 08.25 to 17.25.
See more – also in
English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
Today is called CHRYSOSTOMUS’ DAY. Why ? Because bishop John in Constantinopel living around year 400 AC was called Chrysostomos, which means “ Golden Mouth”. He was called so because of his excellent and very precise speeches about the bible. At the end he was sent away to a far away place and died in the year 407.
I have been asked, why most days have names from
Christian saints. The explanation is
simple. Our calendar(s) primarily come from Christian sources. Therefore, it is not surprising that each day
often get its name from a saint. But it
is not the same saint in each country.
Take BELGIUM: Today’s saint here
is: Sainte Angèle
Merici. She was an Italian
educator, who in the 16th century started the education of girls in
the Brescia region in Northern Italy.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1945: The
German concentration camp Auschwitz
is liberated by Soviet forces.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
A red thread – what’s the origin of that? And what does it mean?
You say: A red thread goes through it! This is an expression which comes from the Royal British Navy. For centuries it had a serious problem about its ropes being stolen. And nobody could trace where it had gone. That is why they started to weave a red thread into all new ropes. This made it much easier to find the thieves and to bring the ropes back to the Navy. This method is still in use. And it has been further refined in the sense that each Navy base has its own colour of the thread. The same method was used by the Danish Navy until 1900.
The expression a red thread
through something means today that things are coherent.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Horsetrading – what is the background of that expression?
And what does it mean?
47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
Age is not a
question of years, but of the state of mind.
This was once said by the American
general Douglas MacArthur.
2.
Today’s quote:
I do not know
any parties any more. I only know Germans.
Who has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( died 1791 ) - see above.
1859: Emperor Wilhelm II ( died 1941 )
1891: Ilja Ehrenburg ( died 1967 )
1934: Edith Cresson
1947: Björn Afzelius ( died 1999 )
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1814: J.G. Fichte ( 51 years )
1901: Giuseppe Verdi ( 88 years )
1972: Mahalia Jackson ( 61 years )
2006: Johannes Rau ( 75 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer +
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
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