TODAY - January 5

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JANUARY 5

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

Here in Belgium the day is now 11 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 8 hours and 9 minutes – from 08.44 to 16.52.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called SIMEON’s DAY.  He was a pious preacher from Cicilia in Syria. He is the best known of the so-called stylites. He spent the last 26 years of his life on the top of a column outside the city of Antiochia. It was partly to live in peace from pilgrims and tourists. But he also used his time to answer questions from the pilgrims from up there at the top of the column. He was also called Simon Stylitis. He died in 459 AC.

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT EDOUARD  (Edward the Confessor). He lived in the years 1003-66 and was an Anglo-Saxon king in England.  He was very popular with people in general.

 

TODAY FROM EARLIER IN JANUARY:   TODAY 2021 - JANUARY

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1968:  Alexander Dubcek is elected secretary-general of the communist party in Czchoslovakia.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

A Gentlemen’s Agreement – where does that come from? And what does it mean?

This expression comes from a number of dinner parties in 1886 in the American finance magnate J.P. Morgan’s house.  Morgan lived in the years 1837-1913.  During these dinners (only attended by men) a number of very important agreements were made. They were not written down in a contract and were only based on the spoken word and mutual confidence on what had been said. They were called Gentlemen’s Agreements.

In Denmark (and probably also in other countries) you have another way of unwritten agreements. If you have made a deal  (bought a horse or something else) the two people clash their right hands against each other. And that confirms the deal.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

A French visit – where does that come from? 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:

When a woman has become a mother she is no longer a fallen woman, independently of how she became it.

            This was said by the Danish priest and author Kaj Munk.

2.  Today’s quote:

A person working for today’s person says:  You cannot expect that we say yes and amen to everything you ask us to do.  Our man replies:  You do not have to say amen!

Who is the person from today’s list?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1876:  Konrad Adenauer ( died 1967 )

1921:  Friedrich Dürrenmatt  ( died 1990 )

1932:  Umberto Eco  ( died 2016 )

1938:  Ex-King Juan Carlos I

1952:  Uli Hoeness

4.  Famous people died on this day:

        1589:  Catharine of Medici  ( 70 years ) – see Wikipedia and below

             1933:  John Calvin Coolidge  ( 61 years )

             2002:  Astrid Henning-Jensen  ( 87 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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




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