Kurdish calendar throughout Kurdistan follow the same principal structure for the "Kurdish days of the week". The Kurdish name for the first day of the week Sheme (Saturday) is in fact descended from Akkadian word Shabattu (In Sumerian Shabbât, Arabic Sabbath, Pahlavic Shunbat, Persian Shambed; Shamba; Shanbeh, even transferred to Greek as Sabbaton, German Samstag, Italian sabato, Spanish sábado, French Samedi). The Akkadian called the 15th day of the month, the day a full moon appears, Shabbattu. The question still remains why such an adoption was made for Kurdish and Persian days of the week. It has been documented that the Babylonian
Larry Sabato Corruption in American Politics" with Glenn R. Simpson. In January 2011, he published "Pendulum Swing", which analyzed the 2010 midterm elections and the potential effect of Republican Party victories on the 2012 presidential, congressional, and state-level elections. Prior to "Pendulum Swing", Sabato authored "The Year of Obama" in 2009 and "A More Perfect Constitution" in 2007, which discussed his ideas for amending the U.S. Constitution. Other Sabato books include "The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency", "Divided States of America: The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election", and "Get in