TODAY - January 8
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JANUARY 8
New 2021 edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here
in Belgium 16 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 8 hours and 13
minutes – from 08.42 to 16.56.
See more – also in
English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
Today’s name is ERHARDT’s DAY. He was an Irish monk, who in the year 600 AD came to the German city of Regensburg. He later became a bishop there. The rumour says that after he baptised the blind Ottilia, the daughter of a local duke, she was again able to see.
Erhardt’s skull
is still in the cathedral of Regensburg.
The day’s name
in Belgium is SAINTE GUDULE (
Gudule de Bruxelles ). She was the daughter of a count in Brabant in Belgium
and lived in the years 646 to ca. 714.
She is the patron of Brussels.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1198: The state of Monaco becomes independent.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
The bird Phoenix – where does that come
from? And means what?
This is a
legendary animal, which is described by the ancient Greek poets. The feathers
of the bird were put to flames by the sun, and it burns in its nest. But from
the ashes a new Bird Phoenix arises. That’s where the expression to arise like the bird Phoenix comes
from.
Another version
of this legend goes as follows: The bird Phoenix is the only one of its kind in
the world. It has lived for 500 years in the Arab desert. Then it collects sweet-scented wood for a
fire. This is ignited by the sun. And from the ashes the bird Phoenix arises
again – this time in a younger and a more beautiful form.
Today the
expression to arise like the bird Phoenix
means that something very unexpected is happening – almost out of nothing. It
is positive, but close to being unreal. Almost magic.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Hocus-pocus - 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:
Nothing is more
unbearable than a foll, who succeeds in being successful.
That was once said by the Roman
poet and politician Cicero.
2.
Today’s quote:
Many politicians
die on barricades they never have been standing on!
Who among today’s persons has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1935: Elvis Presley ( died 1977 )
1942: Stephen Hawking ( died 2018 )
1947: David Bowie (died 2016)
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1337: Giotto di Bondone ( 69 years )
1642: Galileo Galilei ( 77 years ) – see Wikipedia and the photo below.
1996: Francois Mitterrand ( 79 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer +
EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be
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