TODAY - MAY 24

 NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MAY 24

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 56 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 54 minutes – from 05.43 to 21.37.

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

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is ESTHER’s DAY.  It has its name from the Jewish girl Esther, who married the Persian king Xerxes. According to the Old Testament she did so to save the Jews from the persecutions of the Persians.

In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINTS DONATIEN ET ROGATIEN.  They were two Christian brothers in Nantes in France, who were killed in 304.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1976:  The Concorde plane is making its first flight from London/Paris to Washington DC.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Silence is gold – where does that expression come from? And it means?

This expression goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt. It later appeared in an English bible from 1382: Silence is maad in heuen  (made in heaven).

The English poet Thomas Carlyle wrote about it in 1831 – inspired by German sources. He presents a long praise of silence and all its virtues. Such as: speech is of time. Silence is of eternity.

It seems that the well-known phrase Speech is silver and silence is gold  (Sprechen ist Silbern, Schweigen ist Gold) comes from Switzerland.

In a religious context it is still practiced in a Belgian monastery. New monks are not allowed to say a word the first five years.  They are expected to pray and to brew beer (and drink it in between). So it must be quite a challenge to keep totally silent after a couple of mugs of great, strong beer!

The expression Silence is gold  is often used today to tell talkative people that saying nothing is often preferable to speaking.  Whether it helps is another matter J

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Money is the root of all evil – where does that expression come from? And means?

 

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

You have to lose a lot to get a lot.

             This was once said by the Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist.

2.  Today’s quote:

Sometimes I feel that the world is one big prison, some of us are prisoners, the rest are prison guards.

Who among today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1686:  Gabriel Fahrenheit  ( died 1736 )

1819:  Queen Victoria  ( died 1901 )

1913:  Haldor Topsøe  ( died 2013 )

1925:  Mai Zetterling  ( died 1994 )

1941:  Bob Dylan

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1212:  Queen Dagmar  ( 26 years )

1543:  Nicolaus Kopernikus  ( 70 years )

1959:  John Foster Dulles  ( 71 years )

1974:  Duke Ellington  ( 75 years )  see photo. 

           And listen to: TAKE THE A TRAIN.

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com   +  EUROPE AT WORK:  www.europe-at-work.be

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Duke Ellington


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