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  2. Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    In Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar Wednesday is the day when the sun shines grey. [full citation needed] Wednesday Friday Addams is a member of the fictional family The Addams Family. Her name is derived from the idea that Wednesday's child is full of woe. Additionally, Wednesday sometimes appears as a character's name in literary works.

  3. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    The words for Saturday through Wednesday contain the Bantu-derived Swahili words for "one" through "five". The word for Thursday, Alhamisi , is of Arabic origin and means "the fifth" (day). The word for Friday, Ijumaa , is also Arabic and means (day of) "gathering" for the Friday noon prayers in Islam.

  4. Wednesday (given name) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. How Wednesday became 'Hump Day' - AOL

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    Yup. It's Hump Day — otherwise known as "Wednesday" and while that name is still printed on our calendars, the former has taken over in everyday conversation. And no — this wasn't ...

  6. Wednesday Addams - Wikipedia

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    Wednesday Addams is a character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.She is typically portrayed as a morbid and emotionally reserved child that is fascinated by the macabre, often identified by her pale skin and black pigtails.

  7. The iconic Wednesday Addams dance gets a cultural twist from ...

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    The Wednesday Addams dance takes over TikTok and Asian creators are putting their own spin on it. The iconic Wednesday Addams dance gets a cultural twist from Asian TikTok creators Skip to main ...

  8. Week - Wikipedia

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    According to the (contemporary) Julian calendar, 6 February 60 was, however, a Wednesday. This is explained by the existence of two conventions of naming days of the weeks based on the planetary hours system: 6 February was a "Sunday" based on the sunset naming convention, and a "Wednesday" based on the sunrise naming convention. [47]

  9. What’s the point of a Leap Year? Why 2024 brings 29 days of ...

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    Every so often, the shortest month of the year, February, is given one extra day, making it 29 days long. 2024 is one of those years, making this year a leap year, where, in addition to February ...