During the Middle Ages the Church prohibited the eating of meat on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturdays, as well as dairy and eggs during Advent and Lent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medβ¦
Anthony Cymerys an 82 years old barber would go out every Wednesday with his chair, a pair of slippers and a car battery to power his clippers at a local park in Hartford. He gives free haircuts to the homeless and doesn't charge them a dime, all you had to do in exchange is to give him a hug. cbsnews.com/news/homelessβ¦
Some days of the week were named after Germanic gods... Tig for Tuesday, Wodin for Wednesday, Thor for Thursday, and Frei for Friday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namβ¦
The "Wednesday Demonstration" in Korea is the world's oldest rally on a single theme. Every Wednesday since 1992, former victims of Imperial Japan's large scale sexual slavery system has been organizing a rally in front of the Japanese embassy, requesting a sincere apology from Japan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedβ¦
Rock pioneer Chuck Berry was invited to play the White House in 1979 at the request of President Jimmy Carter. Berry continued to tour well into his eighties and showed up at St. Louisβ Blueberry Hill for his monthly Wednesday residency gig until from 1996 through 2014 liveforlivemusic.com/featβ¦
In the United States the reason voting takes place on a Tuesday is in 1845 it could take rural farmers up to a day of travelling by horse and cart to get to a voting station. Wednesday was typically market day and Sunday was the Biblical Sabbath so Tuesday was chosen to allow ample travel time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleβ¦
In May 2016, Portugal ran on renewable energy for 4 consecutive days. The renewable energy came from various sources such as: Wind, Solar and hydropower. The run went from 6:45 am on Saturday May 7 to the following Wednesday until 5:45 pm. theguardian.com/environmeβ¦
4 days of the week are named after Norse gods. In particular, Thursday is named after the Norse god Thor (Thursday = Thor's Day). Wednesday is named after the head Norse god Odin (Wednesday = Wodin's/Odin's Day). socialstudiesforkids.com/β¦
In the Middle Ages, Catholic women were prohibited from having sex on Sundays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, on feast days, while fasting for Lent or Advent or while "impure" (menstruation, pregnancy, 40 days after giving birth & while nursing). Everything but missionary position was considered sodomy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medβ¦
After Sunday (the Sun) and Monday (the Moon), every day of the week is named after Anglo-Saxon derivatives of mythical gods. i.e. Wednesday after Woden, or Odin, Thursday after Thor, and so on. almanac.com/fact/where-diβ¦
Dutch author Richard Klinkhamer murdered his wife, and then a year later delivered a manuscript to his publishers called βWednesday, Mince Dayβ, which detailed 7 ways in which he couldβve gruesomely killed his wife. 9 years later, his wifeβs body was found and he was arrested. theguardian.com/books/200β¦
US election day is always held on a Tuesday because in 1845 farmers often needed a full day to travel by horse-drawn vehicles to the county seat to vote. Farmers would leave Monday, vote on Tuesday and be back in time for market day, which was on Wednesday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleβ¦
Voting is on Tuesdays because the US was mostly an agrarian society. People needed time to travel to the voting booth and voting day couldnβt interfere with Church activities or market day which normally fell on Wednesdayβs. npr.org/2016/11/01/500208β¦
Almost 25% of suicides occur on Wednesdays, as compared to 14% on Mondays or Saturdays, the two days tied for second-highest suicide rates, but Thursdays have the lowest rate, 11%. Slightly more occurred in the summer, 26%, while the fewest occurred in the winter, 23.8%. nbcnews.com/id/31780455/nβ¦
The original inventor of LEGO used to "spend the whole of every Wednesday in a different nursery school, sitting on the floor and playing with the children, to find out exactly what type of toys would be of the greatest interest to them.β hilarypagetoys.com/Home/Hβ¦
The Royal Australian Navy still keeps tradition with a different toast for a different day. For example, that traditional toast for Wednesday is "Ourselves", as in no one else is likely to be concerned for us. navy.gov.au/naval-collegeβ¦
Survivors of Australia's infamous "Ash Wednesday" bushfires reported houses exploding before the fire could touch them due to the air pressure change, steaks found cooked well-done in deep freezers, a car moved 90m from the cyclonic fire storm and sand turned to glass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashβ¦
Most of the days of the week are named for Norse gods: Sunday/Sol's day, Monday/Mani's Day, Tuseday/Tyr's Day, Wednesday/Wodan(Odin)'s Day, Thursday/Thor's Day, Friday/Frige's Day. Saturday is named after the Roman god Saturn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeβ¦
That, in the 1940's, an all-women's prison band in Texas performed every Wednesday in the Goree Unit until all the members were put onto parol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorβ¦
South Koreans have been protesting in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul every Wednesday since January 8, 1992, demanding justice for comfort women in WW2 called Wednesday Demonstration en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedβ¦
Federal law permitted each state to conduct presidential elections at any time in a 34-day period before the first Wednesday of December, when the Electoral College met. Since early voting could affect turnout and sway opinions in states with later elections, a uniform date was chosen in 1845. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleβ¦
The actual Last Supper was on Thursday according to the theologists and on Wednesday according to the scientists. The most probable date according to latter is April 1, 33. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasβ¦
, in the Philippines, License plates ending in 1 and 2 are prohibited from driving on Mondays, those ending in 3 and 4 cannot drive on Tuesday, 5 and 6 on Wednesday, 7 and 8 on Thursday, and 9 and 0 on Friday. movingtothephilippines.neβ¦
George Soros well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds, giving him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoβ¦
Jeff Goldblum does a live jazz show every Wednesday night in LA where he interacts with the crowd and plays jazz standards with his band rockwell-la.inticketing.cβ¦
US elections are usually held on Tuesdays because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on typically on Wednesday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleβ¦
In North Carolina, you can only hunt crows on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday while in season but you may hunt crows on most major holidays unless it falls on a Sunday. ncwildlife.org/Portals/0/β¦
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are named after Norse gods: Tyr's day, Wodan's day (Odin), Thor's day, and Frigg's day omniglot.com/language/timβ¦
The men of a Swiss village have a tradition on Ash Wednesday of chasing young women, grabbing them and smearing ash on their faces. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pscβ¦
Medival church rules restricted sex: on your wedding night, if your wife was pregnant, menstruating, or breastfeeding, on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday, during daylight hours, if you were naked, and only if you wanted a child. thehistoryblog.com/archivβ¦
New Zealand prisoners are only released on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. If their sentence is supposed to end on a non-release day, they let you out early. corrections.govt.nz/resouβ¦
At 7.27pm on Wednesday March 1st, 1950 a church exploded. No one was injured because all 15 of the choir members who used the church for choir practise were late that evening. beatricedailysun.com/newsβ¦
The Louisiana Bar exam is 21.5 hours long and takes place over a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Most other Bar exams are shorter and on consecutive days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barβ¦
Musician Mark Mothersbaugh described work on Pee Wee's Playhouse as "Really chaotic. They'd send tape on Tuesday, I'd write music on Wednesday, record music on Thursday and we'd watch it on TV Saturday. Instead of writing an album once a year I was writing an album's worth of music in one week." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeβ¦
In 1845, Congress needed to pick a time for Americans to vote.We traveled by horse and buggy. Farmers needed a day to get to the county seat, a day to vote, and a day to get back, without interfering with the three days of worship.Wednesday was market day so Tuesday it was. whytuesday.org/answer/
The most babies are born in the afternoons on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in the US, to make it more convenient for everyone amid rising c-section rates theconversation.com/are-wβ¦
Many Chinese restaurants in the UK traditionally close on Tuesdays because a long-running soap opera was broadcast on Mondays and Wednesdays (housewives would watch TV instead of cook the evening meal). Closing on the Tuesday made the best business sense as it was the quietest day. china-britain.org/resourcβ¦
Carl Gauss' illiterate mother never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, 31 days after Easter. Gauss solved this puzzle about his birthdate and derived methods to compute the date of Easter in both past and future years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carβ¦
In Elizabethan England fish had to be eaten every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday by law to sustain the fishing fleet which doubled as the navy. elizabethfiles.com/cecilsβ¦
Wednesday concluded the longest experiment in space physics. Researchers spent $750 million and 52 years just to affirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity. online.wsj.com/article/SBβ¦
The Germanic "Wednesday" is named after the Nordic god Oden, but the Latin Wednesday (ex. "miercoles" in Spanish) is named after the roman god Mercury (the Greek Hermes). Oden was interpreted by the Romans as the Nordic version of Mercury. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wβ¦
George Lucas promised his friend John Milius a small percentage of the profit for Star Wars (1977), which eventually amounted to $1.5 million. In return, Milius promised Lucas a percentage of the profit for his film Big Wednesday (1978), which flopped and amounted to nothing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johβ¦
Orthodox Christians observe some level of fasting approximately half the days of the year, including each Wednesday and Friday. oca.org/liturgics/outlineβ¦
, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and John Milius exchanged a percentage point of Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Big Wednesday prior to their release. While Big Wednesday flopped at the box office, Star Wars and Close Encounters became two of the top grossing films of the '70s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigβ¦
At some point Madagascar tribes exposed,drowned, or buried alive children who made their debut in March or April, or on a Wednesday or a Friday, or in the last week of the month. 1958burrisave.blogspot.coβ¦
During a two-hour period between 10:00 and 11:59 (UTC) each day, three different calendar days are in use. This means that when it's 11 p.m. Monday in Baker Island (USA), it's 1 a.m. Wednesday in Christmas Island (Kiribati) which makes for a 26 hour difference. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intβ¦
George Lucas had a deal with friend John Milius to share profits of eachothers films. Milius earned $1.5 Million from 'Star Wars' while Lucas earned nothing from Milius' autobiographical surfing picture, 'Big Wednesday'. (paragraph 4) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johβ¦
"See You Next Wednesday" is a fictional film referenced in most John Landis movies and is derived from a line from "2001: A Space Odyssey" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeβ¦
Fat Tuesday, refers to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which begins on Ash Wednesday. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fβ¦
In 1752, when changing from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the British Empire, Wednesday 2nd September was followed by Thursday 14th September. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julβ¦
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