TODAY - February 1

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 1

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

Following Denmark’s victory towards Sweden last night in the world championship in handball I have chosen the Danish inventor of handball, HOLGER NIELSEN as today’s person. He was a very active sport’s man and invented handball in 1907.  He was a teacher near Copenhagen and lived in the years 1866-1955.

If you want to see the match last night it should be possible on this YouTube link:

IHF FINAL WC 2021: Denmark - Sweden 26:24 (13:13) / 31.01.2021. - YouTube

See below how the bridge between Denmark and Sweden over the Sound was illuminated last night after the Danish win.

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium  1 hour and 18 minutes longer than December 21.  Its length is: 9 hours and 16 minutes – from 08.18 to 17.34.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called BRIGIDA’s DAY. She was an Irish saint, who according to the legend already as a child was so pious  that a flame was burning above her home. She managed to make a cow give milk three times in a row. She founded a monastery in Kildare southwest of Dublin. Here she lived in a cave under an oak tree until her death at the monastery in the year 523 AC. She is Ireland’s patron.

 

The day’s name is the same in Belgium:  SAINTE BRIGITTE DE KILDARE.

 

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1958: Egypt and Syria becomes one country with the name United Arab Republic.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Did you bring your gun – or are you just happy to see me?  -  where does that remark come from?

 

Two famous persons were dancing with each other. Suddenly she says to him: Did you bring your gun – or are you just happy to see me?  Who was that?

 

As you perhaps already know, it was the remark of the actor Mae West (1893-1980) to the humourist etc. W.C.Fields (1880-1946) when they once were dancing together.

 

The remark has been used later at several occasions in films. It was also used in Mae West’s last film Sextette in 1978.

 

And some people claim that chancellor Angela Merkel used it when she some time ago met the Dutch prime minister!

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Plimsoller  - what is the origin of that word? And what does it stand for?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

The key idea in art is that people should not have what they like

This was once said by the Danish architect and artist  Poul Henningsen

 

2.  Today’s quote:

If you think about your wife, when you watching football, you are still in love with her.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1894:  John Ford  ( died 1973 )

1898:  Enzo Ferrari  ( died 1988 )

1901:  Clark Gable  ( died 1960 )

1931:  Boris Jeltsin  ( died 2007 )

1942:  Terry Jones  ( ”Monty Python” )  ( died 2020 )

1958:  Søren Lerby

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

    1851:  Mary Shelley  ( 53 years )

1966:  Buster Keaton  ( 71 years )

1976:  Werner Heisenberg  ( 75 years )

2002:  Hildegard Knef  ( 77 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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