TODAY - February 26

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 26

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

The day is now here in Belgium 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 10 hours and 45 minutes – from 07.33 to 18.18.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called INGER’s DAY. This does not come from a known saint. It came into the Calendar in 1729. Before that it was called NESTORIUS DAY. 

The name Inger comes possibly from a French princess with this name. It can also come from the man’s name Inge. Or from a Germanic god called Ingvio.

In Belgium the name is SAINT LEANDRE. He was a Spanish priest in Sevilla. He lived in the years 534-600.  He convinced two Visigoth kings to become catholics.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1815:  Napoleon escapes from his prison at the island of Elba and travels to Paris.

           See photo below.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Faith will move mountains  -  origin? Meaning?

This expression comes from  the Bible. It is recorded in the 1582 Rheims Bible, in Matthew XXI 21, as:

"If you shal haue faith, and stagger not, ... and if you shal say to this mountaine, Take vp and throw thy self into the sea, it shal be done."

It basically means that Faith is immensely powerful.   You see it in many religions and religious wars. And you also use it to say that if you strongly believe it, it might be true.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

To put your best foot forward  - what is the origin? And its meaning?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

A minister’s political colour is of no more importance than his hair colour.

This was once said by the colourful and witty Danish politician Erhard Jakobsen.

2.  Today’s quote:

It is precisely the books a man owns, but hasn’t read which are the most suspicious proof against him.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1802:  Victor Hugo  ( died 1885 )

1829:  Levi Strauss  ( died 1902 )

1846:  Buffalo Bill  ( William Frederic Cody ) ( died 1917 )

1852:  John Harvey Kellogg  ( died 1943 )

1928:  Fats Domino  ( died 2017 )

1932:  Johnny Cash  ( died 2003 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1926:  P.E. Lange-Müller  ( 76 years )

1969:  Karl Jaspers  ( 86 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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