Eight-day week Eight-day week Some historical calendars had "weeks" of eight days. In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal. The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both. The
The Week (1933) term Cliveden set to describe what he alleged to be an upper-class pro-German group that exercised influence behind the scenes. "The Week" ceased publication shortly after the war began. Watt alleges that the information printed in "The Week" included rumours, some of which suited Moscow's interests. Watt used as an example the claim "The Week" made in February–March 1939 that German troops were concentrating in Klagenfurt for an invasion of Yugoslavia, which Watt says had no basis in reality. The Week (1933) The Week was a radical British newspaper from 1933 until 1941. Marxist journalist Claud Cockburn launched the first