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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Days of the week (esp. Saturday)
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More of the strange relationship of the net to television:

Just this Saturday, on the syndicated show "The Start of Something Big"
(or something like that), with Steve Allen, one of the topics covered
was the origin of the seven-day week! He mentioned that some African
tribes has four-day weeks, other cultures had 5 and 6-day weeks, and
that the seven-day week originated with the Babylonians.

(Why do topics appear on the net and then shortly thereafter on US TV? I
could understand the reverse, but this is strange...)

Will