Why are 7 days per week and not 8 or 6?? Where did get their names from and why??
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What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week?\nDigging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations as if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know for certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know nothing for certain.\n\nThe common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).\n \n\n\n What Do the Names of the Days of the Week Mean?\n\nAn answer to this question is necessarily closely linked to the language in question. Whereas most languages use the same names for the months (with a few Slavonic languages as notable exceptions), there is great variety in names that various languages use for the days of the week. A few examples will be given here.\n\nExcept for the sabbath, Jews simply number their week days.\n\nA related method is partially used in Portuguese and Russian:\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nEnglish Portuguese Russian Meaning of Russian name \nMonday segunda-feira ponedelnik After "do-nothing" \nTuesday terça-feira vtornik Second \nWednesday quarta-feira sreda Middle \nThursday quinta-feira chetverg Fourth \nFriday sexta-feira pyatnitsa Fifth \nSaturday sabado subbota Sabbath \nSunday domingo voskresenye Resurrection \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n\nMost Latin-based languages connect each day of the week with one of the seven "planets" of the ancient times: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. French, for example, uses:\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nEnglish French "Planet" \nMonday lundi Moon \nTuesday mardi Mars \nWednesday mercredi Mercury \nThursday jeudi Jupiter \nFriday vendredi Venus \nSaturday samedi Saturn \nSunday dimanche (Sun) \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n\nThe link with the sun has been broken in French, but Sunday was called dies solis (day of the sun) in Latin.\n\nIt is in
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chanukah isn't a very important holiday :) the days don't really represent anything, the reason its 8 days long is because chanukah celebrates when the maccabees won the freedom of the jews from the greek oppressors who forbade them to practice judaism and who were defiling the temple with idols and sacrifices of unkosher animals. when the maccabees won back their freedom they cleaned up the temple and lit the menorah with oil that should have lasted for only 1 day, but instead the candles burnt for 8 days, and voila you get 8 days of chanukah
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Our version is a bit different.\n\n30 days has September, April, June, and November.\nAll the rest have 31\nExcept February \nWhich has 28 Days clear \nAnd 29 each Leap Year.\n\nMondays child is fair of face,\nTuesdays child is full of grace,\nWednesdays child is full of woe,\nThursdays child has far to go,\nFridays child is loving and giving,\nSaturdays child works hard for his living,\nAnd the child that is born on the Sabbath day\nIs bonny and blithe, and good and gay.
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lol, they werent born on holidays.  We named certain days after them and made them HOLIDAYS.
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It is generally considered that there are 52 weeks an a year. 7 days a week times 52 weeks is 364 days, 1 day short of a normal year and 2 days short in a leap year.\n\nP.S. I just noticed your comment. There are years where there are 53 pay days in the year. We had a municipal district that tried to not pay their employees their 53rd check because they had already been paid  for 52 weeks. The employees went to court and got their 53rd paycheck.
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The Week is great in one way because is sorts through all the print media crap and gets down to just the basic info that you need to know.\n\nThe downside is, some of the info is outdated by the time you get it.  It should be called Last Week.
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Re-write your question.  It hasn't been answered in l7 days because it makes no sense.
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The first day of the week, Sunday, since ancient times has been designated the "day of rest". For Christians it is the holy day of the week, due to the fact that Christ was reported to have risen from the dead upon this day. \nYet the name of Sunday has nothing to do with Christianity, but everything to do with even more ancient religions. The ancient Greeks knew that the sun was the source of life on the planet and they gave it prime importance in their thinking. When the Romans later adopted the seven day week they emphasize their respect for the sun by naming the first day of the week for it..."dies solis"..."day of the sun". \n\nThe actual word "Sunday" is derived from the German word "Sonntag" (and they likely got it from the Scandanavians). These folk too placed a great deal of importance on the sun. Some tribes of these Germanic peoples invaded England in the 500's or so. They were known as the Angles and the Saxons. The old English work was "sunnandaeg" and it changed over time to become our current, "Sunday". \n\nThere are several holidays that are traditionally held on Sunday. Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) and Father's Day (third Sunday in June) began to be celebrated rather recently, 1914 and 1924 respectively. Easter is an ancient holiday that was officially designated by the Church in the year 325. Its position on the calendar has confused lay people for centuries. The date is calculated by taking the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the 21st of March.
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Monday - Named for the day of the moon\nTuesday - Named for Germanic god Tiw.\nWednesday - Named for Norse god of war and wisdom, Woden (Odin).\nThursday - Named for Norse god Thor\nFriday - Named for Norse goddess Frigg\nSaturday - Named for the day of Saturn\n\nThese names are older than you and me..
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It depends on the purpose of the group. For expample if it was a open forum disscusion group that met on mondays you could call it M.A.L.T. Monday Afternoon Ladies Time. It's a lame example but look into the purpose of your group and and the name might just be spelt out for you.
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The months are lunar (based on the moon) and a year is solar (based on the sun). The numbers are dependent on the revolution of the earth around the sun and the moon around the earth. \n\nIf you are referring to the fluctuating number of days in a month, the Romans did this in order to get the lunar and solar calendars to match. \n\nThe more intriguing question is: who thought up the weekly cycle?
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It is conjectured that the seven day week as we know it was developed by the Babylonians over 3000 years ago. Historians believe that the Babylonians were avid astronomers. They based many of their mathematical systems (including their calculations of time) on the movement of the heavenly bodies. The first convenient division of time to be devised (after the day) was the month because it could be tracked by observing the cycles of the moon. It was at some point deemed convenient by Babylonian scholars to find a division of time greater than the day and shorter than the month. The big problem was that a cycle of the moon lasted about 29 and a half days. No round number of days divides evenly into 29 and a half - 4 was the best division they could find. So they went with the seven day week and worried about the loose change of extra days later. \n\nThroughout the world various systems for the week had developed. The most popular competition for the seven day week was the 10 day week. Yet the ten day week proved to be too long for those looking forward to the weekend. Besides, adoption of the seven day week by the Hebrews would ensure its longevity over other forms; during the early Christian Era it grew in popularity with the popularity of both Judaism and Christianity. The Christians converted the Romans and the Romans forcibly converted the remainder of the civilized world. In this way the creation story, where God creates the universe in six days and then rests on the seventh, became a model for the activities of all mankind. \n\nSo today we still use the seven day week. Only now, as a tribute to man's productivity, we rest two days a week. Like the week itself, each day of the week has its own particular story.
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I believe they weren't discovered all at the same time so there are different people that discovered them. Is this your homework from school? I don't know how it would be helpful to know their names.. but anyway, Hope you find your answer!
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Because an hour was defined such that there are 24 in a day.\n\nThe length of a day is getting longer though but it is still pretty damn close to 24 hours (and anyone who gives you 23 hours 56 minutes for the day length (or 24 hours 37 minutes for a Martian day) is a person who does not know what they are talking about.
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There are many stories behind the origins of Friday the 13th. The one known to most people is that Eve temped Adam with the apple on a Friday. Another well known story is the death of Jesus Christ took place on Friday. What many don't know is that Friday the 13th had a bad name before the Bible.\n\n\nFriday got its name during Norse Mythology. The day was named after the Norse goddess of marriage Frigga. Frigga is not the one responsible for the badness of the day. Frigga was confused with the Norse goddess Freya who was bannished to the mountains as a witch. It was said that Freya along with 11 other witches and the devil had meetings every week on Friday. It was then when Friday became witches sabbath and the day of bad luck.\n\nFear of Friday the 13th\n\nNumber 13 has long been considered by the superstitious to be unlucky. Many towns and suburbs don’t have 13 as a street number, or 13th Street, and most hotels don't have rooms with 13 on the door. Many tall buildings skip the 13th storey, with the elevator going straight from Floor 12 to 14. \n\nBut when a Frday falls on the thirteenth of the month the superstitions increase. Why is Frday 13 considered unlucky ? There are all sorts of explanations in our modern times, from the alleged inability of ancient people to count past twelve to witches covens of 13, biblical allusions and the massacre of the Knights Templar \n\nFor some reason there is a theory that early people counted only their fingers and feet and so any number greater than 12 was beyond their reckoning. The number 13 would then be mysterious and magical. This can be dismissed as a patronising view of our ancestors who could certainly count a lot higher than twelve.\n\nThe association of Friday the 13th with being unlucky is popularly linked with the Knights Templar, and the date of Friday, October the 13th, 1307 CE. And that's another story in itself\n\nIn pre-Christian cultures Friday was often a day of worship. It was considered lucky in Northern Europe as a day to get married because of its traditional association with love and fertility. Our name for Friday comes from the old Norse deity worshipped on the sixth day, Frigg/Freya who corresponds to Venus, the goddess of love of the Romans. The Latin for the sixth day of the week is "dies Veneris", the day of Venus.\n\nAll that changed when Christianity came along. The goddess Freya with her sacred animal, the cat, was recast in post-pagan folklore as a witch, and her day became associated with evil doings. \n\nHowever, despite all of the reasons and derivations for the unlucky Friday 13, no one has been able to document the existence of such beliefs prior to the 19th century. If people who lived before that perceived Friday the 13th as a day of special misfortune, there's no evidence remains to prove it. Perhaps the idea of a bad luck day is a thoroughly modern phenomenon. \n\nLike most superstitions the real origin of Friday the 13th is subject to great speculation, Personally I chose to treat all superstitions with a great deal of salt, thrown over the left shoulder of course
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Wrong.\n\n3 weeks with Sundays is 21 days.\n\n3 weeks without is 18 days.\n\nSo you need to apply 21/18, not 24/21.\n\nEDIT: You said the house still has to be built in 3 weeks.  That's 18 days if they don't work on Sundays.  There aren't 3 "extra Sundays" anywhere because on the contrary, days are taken away.\n\nIt takes 35 workers to do it in 21 days.  Multiply by 21/18 and the result will be more than 35 - this accounts for the fact that you have fewer days.\n\nLook at it another way.  If 15 people build a house in 7 weeks, this means the house needs 15*7*7 = 735 man-days to build.\n\nNumber of people needed = 735 / number of days.\n\n3 full weeks (21 days) will take 735/21 = 35 people.\n\n40 people for 3 weeks with Sundays off (18 days) will only give you 40*18=720 man-days.  Not enough.\n\nFor 18 days, you need 735/18 = 41 people (rounded up to the next whole number - you can't hire a fraction of a person).
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Possibly because 28 x 13 = 364.\n\nTo keep the years on an even keel, you need to have approximately 365 and 1/4 days in each year, which is why we have 365 days for 3 years running, and then the fourth year is 366 days. \n\nIn other words, there are 13 lunar cycles, plus 1 or 2 extra DAYS in a whole year - with a year being 4 seasons - so how would you deal with that if you were creating a 13 month calendar? Everything would end up out of sync! You would end up with a year that had 14 lunar cycles in it...!