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Names of the days of the week. Italian cameo bracelet representing the days of the week, corresponding to the planets as Roman gods: Diana as the Moon for Monday, Mars for Tuesday, Mercury for Wednesday, Jupiter for Thursday, Venus for Friday, Saturn for Saturday, and Apollo as the Sun for Sunday. Middle 19th century, Walters Art Museum.
The result is that all dates from 1 Nisan through 29 (or 30) Cheshvan can each fall on one of four days of the week. Dates during Kislev can fall on any of six days of the week; during Tevet and Shevat, five days; and dates during Adar (or Adar I and II, in leap years) can each fall on one of four days of the week. Gate.
Monday's Child. " Monday's Child " is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many nursery rhymes, there are many versions. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number ...
8:53:23: Business presenter John Terrett puts out the first report of the disaster over BBC News 24 in the UK. [51] 8:54: Flight 77 deviates from its assigned course, turning south over Ohio and then heads back east towards Washington DC. 8:54: BBC World news anchor Nisha Pillai makes that channel's first report of the disaster. The channel ...
The legal weekdays ( British English ), or workweek ( American English ), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Thursday and the weekend is Friday to Sunday. A weekday or workday is any day of the working week. Other institutions often follow this pattern, such as places of ...
The Hebrew week (שבוע, shavua) is a cycle of seven days, mirroring the seven-day period of the Book of Genesis in which the world is created. The names for the days of the week are simply the day number within the week. The week begins with Day 1 and ends with Shabbat . (More precisely, since days begin in the evening, weeks begin and end ...
In colloquial usage, the first 5 days of the week are referred to as first day, second day, etc. Saturday is referred to as Хагас сайн өдөр (Khagas sain ödör, "half-good day"), and Sunday is referred to as Бүтэн сайн өдөр (Büten sain ödör, "full good day"); a result of 5 full working days and Saturday as a half working day during the communist era.
The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days. These twelve months were initially numbered within ...