Week

A week is a unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month. In most modern calendars, including the Gregorian calendar, the week is a period of seven days, making it the longest conventionally used time unit that contains a fixed number of days. Although having no direct astronomical basis, it is widely used as a unit of time. Weeks can be thought of as forming an independent continuous calendar running in parallel with various other calendars. However, some calendars have been designed so that a given date occurs on t ...

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Week: Encyclopedia - Villain of the week "Villain of the week" (or, depending on genre, "monster of the week") is a term that describes the nature of one-use antagonists in episodic fiction, specifically ongoing American genre-based television series. As many shows of this type air episodes weekly at a rate of one or two dozen new episodes per year, there is often a new antagonist to forward the plot of each week's episode. The main characters usually confront and vanquish these characters, often leaving them never to be seen again. Some series alternate between using

Week: Encyclopedia II - Week - Later use of the week

Various groups of citizens of the Roman Empire adopted the week, especially those who had spent time in the eastern parts of the empire, such as Egypt, where the 7-day week was in use. Contemporaneously, Christians, following the biblical instruction, spread the week's use along with their religion. As the early Christians evolved from being Jewish to being a distinct group, various groups evolved from celebrating both the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the first day or the Lord's Day (Sunday), to celebrating only Sunday. S ...

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Week: Encyclopedia - Calculating the day of the week

This article details various mathematical algorithms to calculate the day of the week for any particular date in the past or future. There are a number of other algorithms to do this, including, for example, the Doomsday Algorithm, but they are all variants of each other, simply using different rules to achieve the same result. A typical application is to calculate the day of the week on which someone was born or some other special event occurred. Calculating the day of the week - Introduction. The b ...

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Week: Encyclopedia - Holy Week

Holy Week is the Christian week from Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday. Each of the days of Holy Week has its own traditions of services in the West. Believers are encouraged to follow in their prayers with readings from the Gospel the account of each of the actions from the time of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the crucifixion and death of Jesus on Good Friday and the resurrection on Easter Sunday. While each day has special mass celebrations in the Western churches, the week's most elaborate services are ...

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Week: Encyclopedia - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an international Christian ecumenical observance kept annually between 18 January and 25 January. It is actually an octave, that is, an observance lasting eight days. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began in 1908, and focused on prayer for church unity. The dates of the week were proposed by Paul Wattson: beginning on the Feast of the Confession, or the Chair, of Saint Peter on 18 January, and concluding with the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul on 25 January. In the southern h ...

Week: Encyclopedia - Velvet Revolution

The "Velvet Revolution" (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) refers to a bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. On November 17, 1989, a peaceful student demonstration in Prague was severely beaten back by the riot police. That event sparked a set of popular demonstrations from November 19 to late December. By November 20 the number of peaceful protestors assembled in Prague had swelled from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. A general two-hour strike, involving ...

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Week: Encyclopedia - Annual observances in the United States

This is the list of observances recognized in the United States and no more than two other independent countries. Annual observances in the United States - Days. January 13 - Stephen Foster Memorial Day February 1 - National Freedom Day [1] March 14 - Pi Day April 13 - Thomas Jefferson's birthday May 1 - Law Day [2] May 1 - Loyalty Day [3] 1st Thursday in May - National Day of Prayer [4] 2nd Sunday in May - Mother's Day [5] 3rd S ...

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Week: Encyclopedia II - Days of the week - Order

The week as we know it was introduced by astromancers around the 3rd century, replacing the Roman calendar in use until then. The order of the days was explained by Dio Cassius (and Chaucer gave the same explanation in his Treatise on the Astrolabe). According to Cassius, it was a principle of astrology that the heavenly bodies presided, in succession, over the hours of the day. The Ptolemaic system asserts that the order of the heavenly bodies, from the farthest to the closest to the Earth, is: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. (This order w ...

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