TODAY - March 14

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MARCH 14

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is in Belgium 3 hours and 55 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 11 hours and 47 minutes – from 06.59 to 18.46.

See more – also in English – on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is EUTYCHIUS’ DAY.  He was a Christian, who lived in Mesopotamia ( today’s Iraq ) in the 8th century. He was killed in 741 by the Arab king Isam because of his faith.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT MATHILDE – a German queen, who lived from 892 to 968.  She started a number of spiritual institutions. Her son, Otto, founded the Holy German-Roman empire.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1928:  Sergei Eisenstein’s film “10 Days which were shaking the world”  was shown publicly for the first time in Moscow.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

The Neandertal Men -  What is the background and the history?

Just 12 km to the east of Düsseldorf you can visit your very old ancestor, the Neandertal Man.  He is more than 60.000 years old.

The village is called Mettmann and is very close to the motorway (Autobahn) from Wuppertal to Düsseldorf).   The valley is called Neandertal – created by the small river Düssel. It was named after the German writer and painter Joachim Neander (1650-80), who loved to come to this valley.

It was here that some workers in 1859 found human bones, which were examined by specialists. They came from human beings who lived there about 60.000 years go. They got the name the Neandertal Men.

Afterwards the place where they were found was forgotten. And it was rediscovered only about 50 years ago.

Now you can visit a very interesting Neandertal Museum in the village. It illustrates in a very lively way the development of mankind over thousands, even millions, of years. And the explanations are in German as well as in English.

See more here:  http://www.neanderthal.de/en/  

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Google – where does that word come from ?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Import is good, because this is something you get. Export is bad, because this is something you lose.

            This was once said by the Danish politician and once minister Viggo Starcke.

2.  Today’s quote:

I never think about the future. It can come early enough!

Who among this day’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1681:  Georg Philipp Telemann  ( died 1767 )

1804:  Johann Strauss  ( the older )  ( died 1849 )

1868:  Maxim Gorkij  ( died 1936 )

1879:  Albert Einstein  ( died 1955 )

1933:  Michael Caine

1933:  Quincy Jones

1953:  Lars Lilholt

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1883:  Karl Marx  ( 65 years )

1932:  George Eastman  ( 78 years )

1975:  Susan Hayward  ( 58 years )  - see photo.

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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

                                                                   

                                                                   Susan Hayward

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