TODAY - FEBRUARY 10

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 10

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

I have chosen the American actress and diplomat SHIRLEY TEMPLE.  She was born in 1928 and died on this day in 2014.  She was in addition to being an actress also singer, dancer, business woman and diplomat.  She was in particular famous as a child actress from 1934-38.  She already started, when she was 3 years old.  And she stopped her film career in 1950, when she was 22 years old.

Later she was US ambassador to Ghana from 1974-76 and to Czechoslovakia during the years 1989-92 – the period when communism fell. 

Read more about her time in Prague in a very good book about the history of the building of the US embassy in Prague:

Norman Eiser: Legendary Hause: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House”, 2018.

One of Shirley Temple’s mottos were:  Good luck needs no explanation !

See a photo of her below.

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than December 21.  Its length is: 9 hours and 46 minutes:  from 08.04 to 17.49.

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

 

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called SCOLASTICA’s DAY. She was a twin sister to the holy Benedict, who founded the Benedictine order. She died in a thunderstorm in 542 AC. Her brother according to the legend saw her soal fly to heaven.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

49 BC:  Julius Caesar crosses the river Rubicon with his troops.  He pronounces the famous words:  The die is cast !   The Roman civil war has started.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Cobbler stick to your last  - what’s the origin of that? And what does it mean?

 

This expression goes all the way back to Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). His painter at the court was called Apelles. He was known to exhibit his works in such a way that he – without anybody noticing him – could study peoples’ reactions. One day he changed a detail on a shoe on a painting to see the reaction from visitors. A shoemaker noticed the mistake. But when he continued his criticism of the way the legs were painted Apelles could not stand listening to him anymore.  He said: A shoemaken should never judge anything but shoes. Later the expression has developed into today’s saying:  Coppler – stick to your last.

Today this expression means that you should never talk about things you don’t know anything about.

How the world would change, if everybody followed that rule J

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

A Dutch treat – what’s the origin? 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:

I think the best definition of man is: an ungrateful two-legged creature!

This was said by the Russian author Fjodor Dostojevski

2.  Today’s quote:

Culture is habits!

Who of today’s persons said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1890:  Boris Pasternak  ( died 1960 )

1894:  Harold Macmillan  ( died 1986 )

1898:  Bertolt Brecht  ( died 1956 )

1928:  Shirley Temple  ( died 2014 ) – see more above and below.

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1755:  Charles Secondat Montesquieu  ( 66 year )

            1948:  Sergej Eisenstein  ( 50 years )

2005:  Arthur Miller  ( 89 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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