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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 ...
The name of the day is also related to the Latin name diēs Mārtis, "Day of Mars" (the Roman god of war). Wednesday : Old English Wōdnesdæg ( pronounced [ˈwoːdnezdæj] ) meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden (known as Óðinn among the North Germanic peoples), and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other Germanic peoples) in ...
Little Saturday (Bulgarian: малката събота, Bokmål and Danish: lille lørdag, Finnish: pikkulauantai, Nynorsk: litle laurdag, Swedish: lillördag) is a European concept especially celebrated in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Bulgaria that adds Wednesday to the list of "drinking days".
Featured pictures of Finland (19 F) L. Finnish logos (3 C, 1 F) P. PD-Finland (2 F) Media in category "Images of Finland"
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]
Numbering of weeks is used in Finland, and is simply expressed as in (viikko) 28; (vecka) 28 ('(week) 28') in both writing (abbreviated vk in Finnish [3] and v. in Swedish [4]) and speech, as well as on labels and in computer notation. The week begins with a Monday and week 1 is the week containing the year's first Thursday.
The brick frame of Altadena Hardware remains on Wednesday after the Eaton Fire burned through the center of town. - Sarah Reingewirtz/Los Angeles Daily News/MediaNews Group/Getty Images
The names of the Sundays follow the liturgical calendar and they can be categorized as Christian holidays. When, in the late 1960s, the standard working week in Finland was reduced to 40 hours by an act of Parliament, it also meant that all Saturdays became a sort of de facto public holidays, though not official ones.