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The Babylonians invented the actual [clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later. [2] In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week, but in many countries it is counted as the second day of the ...
La Grange is a town in Fayette County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 133 at the 2010 census. [ 5 ] A large area in the town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as La Grange Historic District .
The La Grange Historic District in La Grange, Tennessee is a 1,700 acres (690 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1] It includes: Immanuel Church (La Grange, Tennessee) (c. 1843), which is separately listed on the NRHP; La Grange Methodist Church, (c. 1832–36)
The day of the week can be easily calculated given a date's Julian day number (JD, i.e. the integer value at noon UT): Adding one to the remainder after dividing the Julian day number by seven (JD modulo 7 + 1) yields that date's ISO 8601 day of the week. For example, the Julian day number of 31 January 2025 is 2460707.
Part of a date: the day of the year (doy) in ordinal dates, day of the month (dom) in calendar dates or day of the week (dow) in week dates. Time regularly spend at paid work on a single work day, cf. man-day and workweek. Daytime. The period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (that is, the time period from sunrise to sunset)
In some Muslim countries, Saturday is the first day of the week and thus Tuesday is the fourth day of the week. The English name is derived from Middle English Tewesday , from Old English Tiwesdæg meaning "Tīw's Day", the day of Tiw or Týr , the god of single combat , law, and justice in Norse mythology .
[36] [37] [38] In 1673, English fur trader Abraham Wood sent an expedition from the Colony of Virginia into Overhill Cherokee territory in modern-day northeastern Tennessee. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] That same year, a French expedition led by missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored the Mississippi River and became the first Europeans to map ...
Historically, the Greco-Roman week began with Sunday (dies solis), and Monday (dies lunae) was the second day of the week. [3] It is still the custom to refer to Monday as feria secunda in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. Quakers also traditionally referred to Monday as "Second Day". [6]