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Tuesday


The god Týr, identified with Mars, after whom Tuesday is named.


Tuesday is the second day of the week following Monday. The name comes from Middle English Twisday, from Old English Tiwes dæg, named after the Nordic god Tyr, who was the equivalent of the Roman war god Mars.

In Latin, it is called Martis dies which means "Mars Day". In Romance languages except Portuguese, the word for "Tuesday" is similar to the Latin name: mardi in French, martes in Spanish, martedì in Italian, and marţi in Romanian.

Portuguese uses numbers instead of pagan names and so their word for "Tuesday" is terça-feira.

The English and Scandinavian names are derived from the Nordic god Týr:

* Old English: Tiw, Tew, or Tiu
* Swedish: Tisdag
* Danish: Tirsdag
* Norwegian: Tirsdag or Tysdag
* Icelandic: Týsdagur
* Finnish: Tiistai (borrowed)

The German word Dienstag and the Dutch word Dinsdag seems to be derived from the god referred to by the Romans as Mars Thingsus, the god of the thing, which might also be Týr, or possibly some other Germanic god.

The Russian word for "Tuesday" is vtórnik, meaning "second"; that is, counting Tuesday as the second day of the week.

Quakers traditionally referred to Tuesday as "Third Day" eschewing the pagan origin of the English name "Tuesday".

In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day. The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world, where a proverb runs En martes, ni te cases ni te embarques (On Tuesday, neither get married nor begin a journey). For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday.

Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 for presidential elections (specifically for the selection of the Electoral College), and was extended to elections for the House of Representatives in 1875 and for the Senate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early nineteenth century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them.

In business, particularly office work, studies have shown that Tuesday is usually the most productive day of the week.[1]

In Thailand, the color associated with Tuesday is pink, see [1]

Tuesday in popular culture


* Tuesday Creative (tuesday.com) is a Los Angeles based interactive agency.
* Tuesday Morning is a chain of discount gift and home accessory stores.
* Tuesday Night Book Club was a short-lived show CBS reality TV series that aired on Tuesday evenings.
* Grim Tuesday is the name of a book by the childrens author, Garth Nix
* Actress Tuesday Weld
* Ruby Tuesday (restaurant)
* In Rejected Cartoons, "Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?"

Music

* The song "Tuesday (I'm Not Ordinary)" by The Most
* Last Tuesday (punk rock group)
* The Real Tuesday Weld (band)
* Til Tuesday (new wave group)
* Tuesday Night Music Club is the name of Sheryl Crow's 1993 debut album
* The song "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
* The song " Love You Till Tuesday" by David Bowie
* The song "Tuesday Heartbreak" by Stevie Wonder
* The song "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)" by The Moody Blues
* The song "Tuesday Morning" by Michelle Branch, on her 2003 album Hotel Paper.
* The song "Tuesday's Dead" by Cat Stevens

A different song of the same name by Melissa Etheridge can be found on her 2004 album "Lucky"

* "Tuesday's Child" is a song by the band All About Eve sung by "Julianne Regan" on their album "Scarlet and Other Stories"
* The song "Ruby Tuesday" from the Rolling Stones

Astrology

In French, Tuesday is "Mardi", associating it with the planet Mars. Tuesday is also associated with the dwarf planet Pluto. This marries Tuesday with ideas of strife, battles to be won and pressing issues and jobs to get sorted. It is not a day to relax. This same meaning can be seen in the Spanish "Martes" and the English "Tuesday" ("Tyr's day.") In India, Tuesday is called "Mangalvar", for the Vedic planet Mangala or Mars.

Named days

* Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday. The crash is said to have marked the start of the Great Depression.
* Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft releases patches for their products. Some system administrators call this day Black Tuesday.
* Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras - fat Tuesday) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar.
* Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold their presidential primary elections.

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