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10月26日 A little history
    
Ever wonder where the names for the days of the week come from
Monday: literally meaning "the moon's day"-- comes from a Germanic translation of the Latin "lunae dies" that also gives the modern German "Montag" for the first day of the working week.
Tuesday: derives its name from Tiu, a Germanic god of war and the sky ("Tiu's day"). In French, the Roman war god, Mars, lends his name to "Mardi" in the same way.
Wednesday: is also named for a Germanic god -- Woden (also known as Odin in Norse mythology).
Thursday: is a corruption of "Thor's day" (named after the Norse god of thunder).
Friday: is named for a Norse goddess of love and fertility Freya ("Freya's day"). The French "Vendridi" follows the same route via the Roman goddes Venus.
Saturday: is a direct borrowing from the Latin "Saturni dies" ("Saturn's day"), named for the ancient Roman god of agriculture.
Sunday: also takes its name directly from Latin, in this case, "dies solis" -- "day of the sun".
So there you have it, no need for you wonder anymore! 10月24日 All About Books Famous Novels
Originally Rejected
By Publishers
 "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
"The Mysterious Affair At Styles" by Agatha Christie
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcorer's) Stone by J.K. Rowling
"The Good Earth" by Pearl Buck
"The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
"The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer
"Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austin
"The Ginger Man" by J.P. Donleavy
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
"The Time to Kill" by John Grisham
"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John Le Carre
"The Rainbow" by D.H. Lawrence
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Great Novels
And Their
Original Titles
 "Lady Chatterly's Lover (D.H. Lawrence): Tenderness
"Roots" (Alex Haley): Before This Anger
"The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M. Cain): Bar-B-Q
"The Mill on the Floss" (George Eliot): Sister Maggie
"Portno's Complaint" (Philip Roth): A Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis
"East of Eden" (John Steinbeck): The Salinas Valley
"The Time Machine" (H.G. Wells): The Chronic Argonauts
"Valley of the Dolls" (Jacqueline Susann): They Don't Build Statues of Businessmen
"Catch-22" (Joseph Heller): Catch-18
"Treasure Island" (Robert Louis Stevenson): The Sea-Cook
"Jaws" (Perter Benchley): The Summer of the Shark
"War and Peace" (Leo Tolsty): All's Well That Ends Well
"Moby-Dick" (Herman Melville): The Whale
"Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbeck): Something That Happened
"The Great Gatzby" (F. Scott Fitzgerald): The High-Bouncing Lover
"Gone With the Wind" ( Margaret Mitchell): Ba! Ba! Black Sheep
"Frankenstein" (Mary Shelley): Prometheus Unchained
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