Wednesday "Germanic Mercury". The Latin name dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century. It is a calque of Greek ("heméra Hérmou"), a term first attested, together with the system of naming the seven weekdays after the seven classical planets, in the "Anthologiarum" by Vettius Valens (c. AD 170). The Latin name is reflected directly in the weekday name in most modern Romance languages: "Mércuris" (Sardinian), "mercredi" (French), "mercoledì" (Italian), "miércoles" (Spanish), "miercuri" (Romanian), "dimecres" (Catalan), "Marcuri" or "Mercuri" (Corsican). In Welsh it is Dydd Mercher, meaning Mercury's Day. The German name for the day, "Mittwoch" (literally: "mid-week"), replaced 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