Names of the days of the week the "first day". This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries. In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian "vtornik" "Tuesday" and "vtoroj" "the following", "chetverg" "Thursday" and "chetvertyj" "the fourth", "pyatnitsa" "Friday" and "pyatyj" "the fifth"; see also the Notes. In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the cycle of the stars (). The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" (which is literally translated to "star day")
Italian Week Stanthorpe and others food and wine, and music events (including a concert with Australian artists Jon English and Peter Cupples). Another significant cultural collaboration involved the launch of the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, one of the few internationally recognized cultural institutions of the Republic of Italy. The launch featured International recording artists Patrizio Buanne, Lisa Hunt, Anna Maria la Spina, Natalie Gauci (winner of Australian Idol 2007) and, Veronica and Shadi Abraham (winners of My Kitchen Rules 2010) and many others guests. The event calendar for Italian Week 2011 was richer than all the previous years and played a special