Tuesday solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means "Ashes of the Dead"; the color associated with Tuesday is pink. In the folk rhyme "Monday's Child", "Tuesday's child is full of grace". In India, Tuesday is also popular for worshipping Hanuman and people fast during Tuesday. Tuesday is associated with the planet Mars and shares that planet's symbol, ♂. As Mars rules over Aries and Scorpio, these signs are also associated with Tuesday. Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after
Nathan S. S. Beman Park, located just north of the RPI campus, is named in his honor. Nathan S. S. Beman Nathan Sidney Smith Beman (1785 - 1871) was the fourth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born in what is now New Lebanon, New York on November 26, 1785. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1807. He then studied theology and preached in Portland, Maine and Mount Zion, Georgia. In 1818, he became president of Franklin College in Athens, Georgia, which was the founding college of the University of Georgia, although he only served a year in that position. He then returned