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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.
Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. [1] In countries which have Friday as their holiday, Wednesday is the fifth day of the week. In countries which use the Sunday-first convention, and in both the Islamic and Jewish calendars, Wednesday is ...
Conventions in the table. Common Slavic accents follow Chakavian conventions: ã (long rising), à (short rising), ȃ (long falling), ȁ (short falling), ā (length in unstressed syllable). The accent pattern (a, b or c) of Common Slavic nouns, verbs and adjectives is indicated. These patterns are as follows: a = consistent root accent; b ...
Wednesday was the talk of the town when it premiered on Netflix — but not all of the discourse was positive. The series reintroduced fans to a new version of Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) in ...
If 1 January falls on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, then the week of 1 January is Week 1. Except in the case of 1 January falling on a Monday, this Week 1 includes the last day(s) of the previous year. If 1 January falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, then 1 January is considered to be part of the last week of the previous year ...
The name of Wednesday Addams was inspired by the nursery rhyme Monday's Child. Wednesday is a usually feminine given name, taken from the day of the week.It came into greater use after Charles Addams chose the name for Wednesday Addams on the 1964 television sitcom The Addams Family, which was based on the cartoons he originally published in The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1938.
Holy Wednesday. In Christianity, Holy Wednesday commemorates the Bargain of Judas as a clandestine spy among the disciples. [1] It is also called Spy Wednesday, [2] or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), [3] and Great and Holy Wednesday (in Eastern Christianity). In Western Christianity many churches of various denominations observe the ...
List of English words with disputed usage. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. List of ethnic slurs. List of generic and genericized trademarks. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English. List of self-contradicting words in English. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year. Most common words in English.