TODAY - February 21

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 21

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

The day is now here in Belgium 2 hours and 29 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 10 hours and 26 minutes – from 07.43 to 1810.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This day’s name is SAMUEL’s DAY. He was a man mentioned in the Old Testament and also in the old Jewish books. He was a judge. And he was the one who selected and blessed the kings Saul and David.  He was also the military leader of the Jews in their fight against the Philistines.

Samuel’s year of death is not known.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT PIERRE DAMIEN’s DAY.  He was an Italian Benedictine monk, who lived in the years 1007-1072.  He was a reformer and is often considered to be on the same line as Francis of Assissi later on.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1972:  US president Richard Nixon starts his historical visit to China to improve relations between the two countries.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Strike while the iron is hot – Where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

This old proverb clearly alludes to the imagery of the blacksmith or farrier at his forge. If he delays in shaping the iron when it is hot and pliable the metal soon cools and hardens and the opportunity is lost.

The expression is recorded in Richard Edwards’, The excellent comedie of two the moste faithfullest freendes, Damon and Pithias, circa 1566

I haue plied the Haruest, and stroke when the Yron was hotte.

The meaning today is to act decisively and take your opportunities when they arise. Or:  Don’t be too late. Because then you will lose a great opportunity.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

The early bird catches the worm  - Background? Meaning?

 

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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

I don’t like TV talkshows. You are slowly fried on the camera grill, and the interviewer is all the time blowing the charcoal.

           This was said by the American actor Sidney Poitier.

2.  Today’s quote:

Love never dies a natural death. It dies, because we do not know how to supply its sources, it dies from blindness and mistakes and treason. It dies from illness and wounds, it dies from fatique. It languishes, it gets tarnished. But it never dies a natural death. Anybody could be accused of murdering his own love.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1893:  Andrés Segovia  ( died 1987 )  - see below.

1903:  Anaïs Nin  ( died 1977 )

1924:  Robert Mugabe  ( died 2019 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1677:  Baruch de Spinoza  ( 45 years )

1984:  Mikhail Sjolokhov  ( 79 years )

2008:  Ben Chapman  ( 83 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



 

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