TODAY - February 5

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 5

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

I have chosen EU’s High Representative in security and external affairs, Mr. JOSEP BORRELL.  He is today in Moscow for important negotiations with the Russian government.     See more on Wikipedia – and on EURONEWS.

Photo below.

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 9 hours and 29 minutes – from 08.12 to 17.41.

You can see more about where you are – also in English – on the site:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is AGATHE’s DAY. She was a young girl in Sicily. She lived in the years 225 – 251 AC. When she as a Christian refused to marry the local Roman governor she was put in prison and killed following very tough torture. Among other things her breasts were cut off.

                                         

In the Middle Ages all nursing women were praying to Saint Agathe. And she is the patron for nursing women and for nurses.

 

According to the legend this evening is very well suited for warnings about coming fiancés. If you fast the whole day and perhaps eat a bit of salt around bed time, you will dream about your coming fiancé / fiancée.

 

Today’s name in Belgium is the same:  SAINTE AGATHE.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1936:  The film “Modern Times” by and with Charles Chaplin is shown for the first time in the US.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Panic fear – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

 

In ancient Rome people were of the opinion that a sudden loud noice – panicus casus, in Latin – often was made by Pan. He was a god in the Greek mythology - the god for shepherds and for wild animals in the mountains. He had horns, legs and a tale like a goat. He moved around on grazing-grounds and in forests. When people met him they were terror-stricken. Especially when they came to wake him up he made them really frightened. It gave them a panic fear. They panicked.

 

This is the historical, mythodological origins of the expression panic fear.

 

Its meaning today is a sudden fear, which people can hardly control.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

To go to Canossa – where does that come from? 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:

The power in lead used for bullets is nothing compared to the power in lead used for writing.

This was said by the Danish writer Georg Brandes.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

The future has waited long enough. If we do not take hand of it, other hands will do so.

Who has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1804:  Johan Ludvig Runeberg  ( died 1877 )

1878:  André-Gustave Citroën  ( died 1935 )

1900:  Adlai E. Stevenson ( died 1965 )

1911:  Jusse Björling  ( died 1960 )

1914:  William S. Burroughs  ( died 1997 )

1919:  Andreas Papandreou  ( died 1996 )

1972:  Mary  ( Elizabeth Donaldson )

1985:  Cristiano Ronaldo

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1881:  Thomas Carlyle  ( 85 years )

1947:  Hans Fallada  ( 53 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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