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  2. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Determination of the day of the week - Wikipedia

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    The Rata Die method works by adding up the number of days d that has passed since a date of known day of the week D. The day of-the-week is then given by (D + d) mod 7, conforming to whatever convention was used to encode D. For example, the date of 13 August 2009 is 733632 days from 1 January AD 1. Taking the number mod 7 yields 4, hence a ...

  4. Week - Wikipedia

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    While the seven-day week in Judaism is tied to Creation account in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (where God creates the heavens and the earth in six days and rests on the seventh; Genesis 1:1-2:3, [41] in the Book of Exodus, the fourth of the Ten Commandments is to rest on the seventh day, Shabbat, which can be seen as implying a ...

  5. Dominical letter - Wikipedia

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    Thurston 1909 continues: . Now, as a moment's reflection shows, if 1 January is a Sunday, all the days marked by A will also be Sundays; if 1 January is a Saturday, Sunday will fall on 2 January, which is a B, and all the other days marked B will be Sundays; if 1 January is a Monday, then Sunday will not come until 7 January, a G, and all the days marked G will be Sundays ...

  6. Doomsday rule - Wikipedia

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    To find which day of the week Christmas Day of 2021 is, proceed as follows: in the year 2021, doomsday is on Sunday. Since December 12 is a doomsday, December 25, being thirteen days afterwards (two weeks less a day), fell on a Saturday. Christmas Day is always the day of the week before doomsday.

  7. A Day in the Life of…Dierks Bentley - AOL

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    It was 5:30 yesterday for my son’s hockey practice. But today was a nice little sleep-in. ... But it’s the perfect once-a-week midday thing. To help get through the day Music to regulate my ...

  8. US agency halts Trump administration's firing of six ... - AOL

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    In Tuesday's decision, Ray Limon, the board's other Democratic member, agreed, saying that there were "reasonable grounds to believe that each of the six agencies engaged in a prohibited personnel ...

  9. Hyeseong Kim to the minors? Why Dodgers are considering ... - AOL

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    During live batting practice sessions against the Dodgers’ talented pitching staff, Kim often looked overmatched at the plate, struggling to adjust to a steep jump in velocity (MLB pitchers ...