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  2. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    Colloquially, the week is also known as the "Worship" (simplified Chinese: 礼拜; traditional Chinese: 禮拜; pinyin: Lǐbài), with the names of the days of the week formed accordingly. This is also dominant in certain regional varieties of Chinese. The following is a table of the Mandarin names of the days of the weeks.

  3. Week - Wikipedia

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    Traces of a nine-day week are found in Baltic languages and in Welsh. The ancient Chinese calendar had a ten-day week, as did the ancient Egyptian calendar (and, incidentally, the French Republican Calendar, dividing its 30-day months into thirds). A six-day week is found in the Akan Calendar and Kabiye culture until 1981.

  4. Planetary hours - Wikipedia

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    The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed in Hellenistic astrology, it has possible roots in older Babylonian astrology, and it is the origin of the names of the days of the week as used in English and numerous other languages.

  5. Early Germanic calendars - Wikipedia

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    The concept of the week, on the other hand, was adopted from the Romans, from about the first century, the various Germanic languages having adopted the Greco-Roman system of naming of the days of the week after the classical planets, inserting loan translations for the names of the planets, substituting the names of Germanic gods in a process ...

  6. Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    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 English, the name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, 'day of Woden', reflecting the religion practised by the Anglo-Saxons, the English equivalent to the Norse ...

  7. How Wednesday became 'Hump Day' - AOL

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    "Hump Day" is a play off the idiom "over the hump," which refers to being at the midpoint. The phrase was used colloquially in the 1920s — when people were saying things like "applesauce" and ...

  8. Talk:Names of the days of the week/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    The first complete list of planetary names for the days of the seven-day week is in Greek by Vettius Valens about AD 170 where he explains how these names were obtained from the planetary names for the hours (see Days of the week#Astrology). I have not traced the first appearance of all planetary names for the seven-day week in a Roman source.

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    Image credits: ssshield #2. I don't remember her name, but I saw one on a cold case tv show that left me screaming at the detectives. Woman mysteriously vanished from her work without a trace and ...