TODAY - February 6

 

NIELS’ GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 6

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s PERSON:

I have chosen the Italian economist MARIO DRAGHI today.  He is right now trying to establish a new, stable Italian government.  He is born in Rome in 1947, was educated ad an economist in Rome and on M.I.T. in the US. He was earlier director of the Italian Central Bank 2004-11 and afterwards president of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt in the years 2011-19. He has widespread support and is very well respected.

See photo below.

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 1 hour and 35 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 9 hours and 32 minutes – from 08.11 to 17.43.’

See more about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

 

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is DOROTHEA’s DAY. She was a young Christian girl, who refused to marry the local Roman governor, because he was a non-Christian. Therefore, she was condemned to death by hanging. On her last day she organised from her cell that a flower basket was delivered to the judge. This made him change his mind, and she was not executed.

 

She died a natural death in 300 AC.

 

The holy Dorothea has since been the patron of emergency aid.

 

The day’s name in Belgium is SAINT AMAND  ( Amandus ).  He was French and was bishop in Tongeren and in Maastricht.  He lived in the years 584-675.  He was very influential in the church.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1958:  A plane with the football team of Manchester United crashes in Munich airport, and 8 players are killed.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

To go to Canossa – where does that come from? And what does it mean?

This expression comes from the German emperor Heinrich IV and his fight with pope Gregor VII. Heinrich governed in the years 1056-1106. When the emperor at the diet in Worms in 1076 declared the pope dismissed, a very serious conflict began. The pope excommunicated Heinrich. But the conflict ended when the emperor barefooted and dressed in repentant clothes the following year walked to the long way to the pope’s castle in Canossa south of Parma. He had to wait for 3 days in bitter winterly cold in the courtyard of the castle, before the pope accepted to forgive him.

 

The expression to go to Canossa became very famous much later, when chancellor Bismarck in the 1870ies started a serious fight with the Vatican. We are not going to Canossa, Bismarck declared again and again. At the end negotiations ended the conflict. And it was naturally afterwards often discussed, if Bismarck actually indirectly had to go to Canossa.

Today the expression to go to Canossa means that you give totally in  in a conflict. You cry for mercy without getting anything else in return.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

The Bird Phoenix – what’s the origin of this expression? And what does it mean?

 

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

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

            This was said by the American politician and diplomat Adlei Stevenson II

2.  Today’s quote:

A successful leader is someone who can give all responsability to others, blame other people in case of criticism and take all the glory for himself

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1905:  Wladyslaw Gomulka  ( died 1982 )

1911:  Ronald Reagan  ( died 2004 )

1912:  Eva Braun  ( died 1945 )

1917:  Zsa Zsa Gabor   ( died 2016 )

1932:  Francois Truffaut  ( died 1984 )

1945:  Bob Marley  ( died 1981 )

1976:  Princess Marie

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1793:  Carlo Goldoni  ( 85 years )

1918:  Gustav Klimt  ( 56 years )

1952:  King George VI  ( 56 years )

1993:  Arthur Ashe  ( 50 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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