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The only thing I could find was from Wikipedia's article on the letter R: "In calendars, R is often used as an abbreviation for Thursday instead of T, to avoid confusion with Tuesday" Blorg 13:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) maybe because Thursday sounds like "R's day". don't take this seriously. hehe. -janyu86 I say it oughtta be "MTWrFS."
"Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword setters. However, some abbreviations may be found in other dictionaries, such as the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary .
"Thursday's Child" is a song by The Chameleons on Script of the Bridge (1983). "Outlook for Thursday" was a hit in New Zealand for Dave Dobbyn. Thursday (mixtape)" is the name of a mixtape by R&B artist The Weeknd released in 2011. "Thirsty" is a song by American pop band AJR that prominently features the lyrics 'Thirsty, thirsty Thursday' [26]
R&B – (i) Rhythm and Blues RBAR – (i) Row by agonizing row – a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases, since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR ...
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Between the first and third centuries CE, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The earliest evidence for this new system is a Pompeiian graffito referring to 6 February (ante diem viii idus Februarias) of the year 60 CE as dies solis ("Sunday"). [3]
From January 2008 to October 2008, if you bought shares in companies when Richard Karl Goeltz joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -75.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -36.6 percent return from the S&P 500.
These 53-week years occur on all years that have Thursday as 1 January and on leap years that start on Wednesday. The extra week is sometimes referred to as a leap week, although ISO 8601 does not use this term. Weeks start with Monday and end on Sunday. Each week's year is the Gregorian year in which the Thursday falls.