TODAY - March 12

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MARCH 12

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 3 hours and 44 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 11 hours and 39 minutes – from 07.03 to 18.42.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

This is GREGORIUS’ DAY.  He was pope during the years 590-604.  Originally he was a Roman governor. But he decided to become a Christian monk.  Following several further appointments he ended up – against his own will – to become a bishop.

It was Gregorius, who introduced the concept of  purgatory.

He is also one of the four so-called church fathers. The others are: Antonius, Augustinus and Hieronymus.

In Belgium its name is SAINT MAXIMILIEN – after a saint, who died in Numedia in 295 AD.  He refused to become a Roman soldier.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1947: US president Harry S. Truman presents the so-called Truman Doctrine, which aims at protecting the West against the communist countries and movements.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Marianne – she is a symbol for a country. Which one? And why?

This name is used about France. It was started by the revolutionaries during the French revolution. It is mentioned for the first time in 1792. It symbolizes the republic – in contrast to the then very male dominated French monarchy. And it stands for liberty and reason. The name is made from the two most common female names in France at that time:  Marie (Mary) and Anne.

The name Marianne is today still used by all French authorities. It has its own special logo.


It is also the Marianne figure and its meaning, which inspired France’s gift to the United States in 1886: The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Noah’s Ark – What is the background of that expression?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

The freedom of expression is in danger, when a newspaper is so busy in promoting its own points of view that it does not loyally present that of others.

            This was said by the Danish politician Erhard Jakobsen.

2.  Today’s quote:

What a Christian is doing is his own matter. What a Jew is doing falls back on all Jews.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1863:  Gabriele d’Annunzio  ( died 1938 )

1890:  Evert Taube  ( died 1976 )

1942:  Ratko Mladic

1946:  Liza Minnelli    ( see photo )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

604:    Gregor I ( 64 years )

1925:  Sun Yat-sen  ( 59 years )

1945:  Anne Frank  ( 16 years )

1999:  Yehudi Menuhin  ( 73 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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