TODAY - March 2

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MARCH 2

New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is in Belgium 3 hours and 5 minutes longer than December 21.  Its length is 11 hours and 1 minute – from 07.25 to 18.26.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is SIMPLICIUS’ DAY. He was pope in Rome in the years 468 – 483. He was in particular interested in the Eastern regions of the Roman empire.

In Belgium its name is SAINT CHARLES LE BON.  He lived in the years 1084-1127. His title was Count of Flanders.  He was also a Danish prince – son of king Canute IV – and born in Odense, Denmark.


TODAY’s EVENT:

1969:  The first test flight with the Concorde plane took place in Toulouse, France.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Feather in one’s cap – where does that come from? And what does it mean?

Feathers have in history always played a very important symbolic role.  The ancient Greek poet Aesop (620-564 BC) talked in one of his tales about a crowe, which borrowed the feathers of a parrot to try to look better.  And the soldiers in the Roman armies wore feathers on their helmets. This should sympolise that they were able to fly, just like the birds.

As time went by it became a habit that the more feathers you had in your cap the more important you were.  They were a sign of your influence and rang.

A few hundred years it was a normal saying in English that nobody should wear a feather, if he hadn’t killed a Turk.  Again: a symbol for something good (?) you had done.

Today the expression a feather in one’s cap means that you have got an honour you can be proud of.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Goulash barons – what is the history behind that expression?

46 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

Discussions with a lovely woman is the worst waste of time I can imagine.

This was once said by the British actor David Niven.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

When I wish I were rich, then I know that I am not quite healthy.

Who has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1824:  Bedrich Smetana  ( died 1884 )

1842:  Carl Jacobsen  ( died 1914 )

1900:  Kurt Weill  ( died 1950 )

1931:  Mikhail Gorbatjov

1942:  John Irving

1950:  Karen Carpenter  ( died 1983 )

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1930:  D.H. Lawrence  ( 45 years )

1999:  Dusty Springfield  ( 60 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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