TODAY - March 5

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MARCH 5

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is in Belgium 3 hours and 16 minutes longer than December 21. It lasts from 07.18 to 18.30.  Its length is 11 hours and 12 minutes.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today is called THEOFILUS’ DAY.  He was a bishop in Caeserea – which was a place at the coast in present day Israel between Tel Aviv and Haifa. While he was a bishop he was involved in deciding that Easter Day should be on a Sunday. He died around 200 AC.

Now and then the name also refers to another Theofilus, who made an agreement with the devil. He succeeded, however, according to the legend, to get out of the agreement again after he had seen Virgin Mary.

The day’s name in Belgium is:  SAINT OLIVE – after a saint from Palermo in Italy. Lived in the years 448-63.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1918:  Moscow becomes the Russian capital instead of Petrograd.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Irene – where does that name come from ? And what does it mean?

This name comes from the pious Irene, who lived in Saloniki (in present day Greece) in the beginning of the 4th century. She was a Christian. Therefore, she was like other Christians persecuted by the Roman emperor Diocletian. And when the Roman soldiers discovered that she had Christian books and did not want to give up her faith she was together with her two sisters Agape and Chionia and all the books put on the fire in Saloniki in 304. Before that they were taken naked to a local brothel. But nobody touched them.

The name Irene comes from Greek and means Peace.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Keelhauling – what is it? And what was it used for?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

The man governs the world. And the woman governs the man. What more can she  ask for?

This was said by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol.

 

2.  Today’s quote:

A Dane is like a bottle of ketchup: in the beginning nothing comes out  – and then at the end everything comes in one go.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1774:   Ernst Friedrich Weyse  ( died 1842 )

1871:   Rosa Luxemburg  ( died 1919 )

1898:   Zhou Enlai  ( died 1976 )

1908:   Rex Harrison  ( died 1990 )

1918 :  James Tobin  ( died 2002 )

1942:   Felipe Gonzales

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1827:  Alessandro Volta ( 77 years )

1953:  Joseph Stalin  ( 74 years )  - see photo.

1961:  Kjeld Abell  ( 59 years )

1963:  Patsy Cline  ( 30 years )

1966:  Anna Ahmatova  ( 77 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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



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