Thus the week cycle is by itself not a full calendar system ; neither is a system to name the days within a year without a system for identifying the years.

* The week cycle is an example of one that is not synchronized to any external phenomenon ( although it may have been derived from lunar phases, beginning anew every month ).

For example, the rules of the Hebrew calendar depend on the seven-day week cycle ( a very simple calendar ), so the week is one of the cycles of the Hebrew calendar.

Systems of leap days usually do not affect the week cycle.

The week cycle was not even interrupted when 10, 11, 12, or 13 dates were skipped when the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar by various countries.

Because this Victorian cycle differed from the Alexandrian cycle in the dates of some of the Paschal Full Moons, and because it tried to respect the Roman custom of fixing Easter to the Sunday in the week of the 16th to the 22nd of the lunar month ( rather than the 15th to the 21st as at Alexandria ), by providing alternative " Latin " and " Greek " dates in some years, occasional disagreements from the date of Easter as fixed by Alexandrian rules continued.

In practice, the tests are run once or twice per week during the entire development cycle, using three to five test subjects per round, and with the results delivered within 24 hours to the designers.

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week.

This does not set up an eight-day week, since the eighth day is also considered to be the first day of the next cycle ( i. e., not the following day ).

The Javanese people of Indonesia have a five-day week known as the Pasaran cycle.

The Adaduanan cycle appears to be based on an older six-day week, still extant in some northern Guan communities such as the Nchumuru, on which is superimposed a seven-day week which may have been brought south with itinerant traders from the Savannah.

The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinal cycle around the 8th or 7th century BC.

Adherents of these religions object that intercalary days are counted outside the usual seven-day week and disrupt the traditional weekly cycle.

His wife, the Flaminica Dialis, had her own duties, and presided over the sacrifice of a ram to Jupiter on each of the nundinae, the " market " days of a calendar cycle, comparable to a week.

On the weekdays of this week, the first Lenten structural elements are introduced to the cycle of services on weekdays ( the chanting of " Alleluia ", the Prayer of Saint Ephrem, making prostrations, etc .).

The ancient Romans traditionally used the eight-day nundinal cycle, a market week, but in the time of Augustus, the seven-day week also came into use.

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week.

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week.

The frequency of occurrence of solar flares varies, from several per day when the Sun is particularly " active " to less than one every week when the Sun is " quiet ", following the 11-year cycle ( the solar cycle ).

A week in arrears, and without means to pay, I must go, it is the only right thing.

progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

The flood is not as great -- only 700 a week according to one apparently conservative account -- but it is symptomatic.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

In the very week of our war against Katanga, we make a $133 million grant to Kwame Nkrumah, who has just declared his solidarity with the Communist bloc, and is busily turning his own country into a totalitarian dictatorship.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

There is a new atmosphere of urgency in Washington this week.

The workshop is open five afternoons and two evenings each week.

As in the United States, there is a flat fee-per-day rental charge plus a few cents per kilometer driven, and the per-day rate drops if the car is retained for a week.

Since the choice is by lot each week, the outcomes of different trials are independent.

Once the grains are ground, vitamin E begins to deteriorate immediately and half of it is lost by oxidation and exposure to the air within one week.

Home-made sauerkraut is served once a week.

Also, salt water fish is on the table once a week.

Out of it each week go hundreds of thousands of words purporting to inform home ministries about what is really happening inside Washington.

He expects that if the present timetable is followed a vote will be scheduled during the last week in September.

Formula is due this week

The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions is expected to receive the report this week.

Friend is off to a great start with a 4-0 record but isn't likely to see action here this week.

La Russell's run in `` Skylark '', debuting next week at Drury Lane, already is a sellout.

It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.