TODAY - February 19
NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: FEBRUARY 19
New 2021 edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:
The day here in
Belgium is now 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than on December 21. Its length is
10 hours and 19 minutes – from 07.47 to 18.06.
See more – also in
English – about it in the area where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk
TODAY’s NAME:
Today is called AMMON’s DAY. He was as a number of his friends Christian and at the same time soldiers in the Roman army. They did not tell anybody about their faith. But when one of his friends under torture was about to abandon his faith Ammon encouraged him to stick to it. This costs both of them their lives in the year 250.
In Belgium this day is
called SAINT BONIFACE DAY – after a Belgian who became bishop in
Lausanne in Switzerland. He lived in the
years 1183-1260.
TODAY’s EVENT:
1990: The East-German authorities start the removal
of the Berlin Wall. It
had already lost its importance, when it opened in the evening of November 9,
1989.
TODAY’s QUESTION:
Out of sight – out of mind - where does that come from? And what does it mean?
The
meaning of this phrase is that something
is easily forgotten or dismissed as unimportant if it is not in our direct
view. Or you easily forget people you do you see often or are not in
contact with frequently.
The
background for the expression is many hundred years old. The use of 'in mind'
for 'remembered' and 'out of mind' for 'forgotten' date back to the at least
the 13th century. The earliest printed citation of a link with memory and the
sight of something is in John
Heywood's Woorkes. A
dialogue conteynyng prouerbes and epigrammes, 1562, as reprinted by
the Spenser Society, 1867: "Out of sight out of minde."
The
phrase is used as an example of the supposed comic results that early computer
translation and speech recognition programmes came up with. The phrase 'out of
sight, out of mind' was supposed to have been translated by a computer as
'invisible idiot', 'blind and insane' etc. This is on a par with 'computers can
wreck a nice peach' (computers can recognise speech), which is also used as an
example of how computers lack the general knowledge to compare with humans at
speech recognition.
These
reports lack consistency and are too neat to be anything other than inventions.
There's no evidence to support the stories but they do illustrate that although
'anyone can make a mistake, but to really foul things up you need a computer'.
Even using recent (2007) programs to translate 'out of sight, out of mind' into
Russian and then back to English the best they could do was 'from the sighting,
from the reason'.
QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
When in Rome – do as the Romans do -
Origin? Meaning?
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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.
Yesterday’s quote:
It is neither
advisable nor undangerous to play around with one’s conscience.
This was once said by Martin Luther.
2.
Today’s quote:
The masses will
follow a leader, who is 20 steps ahead. But if he is a thousand steps ahead of
them, they do not see him, and they do not follow him
Who has said that?
3. Famous
people born on this day:
1473: Nicolaus Kopernikus ( died 1543 )
1865: Sven Hedin ( died 1952 )
1924: Lee
Marvin ( died 1987 )
1948: Pim Fortuyn ( died 2002 )
1952: Amy Tan
1960: Prins Andrew
1966: Enzo Scifo
4. Famous
people died on this day:
1927: Georg Brandes ( 85 years )
1951: André Gide ( 82 years )
1952: Knut Hamsun ( 93 years )
1997: Deng Xiaoping ( 93 years )
Niels Jørgen Thøgersen
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