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What day of the week was November 24 1943 on?

November 24 1943 was a Wednesday.


What hours did medieval servants have to work?

Medieval servants who may have worked on a king's farmlands, might be expected to toil from sunrise to sunset, depending on the weather of exact type of work that the king required. Servants who worked indoors as cooks and such had long hours as well. Each village of servants serving a noble or a king worked long hours as required by the royalty they served.


Who decided the time of day and in what year?

The division of the day into hours can be traced back to ancient civilizations, notably the Egyptians, who created a 12-hour system for daytime and nighttime around 1500 BCE. However, the standardized 24-hour day we use today was popularized by the ancient Greeks and later adopted by the Romans. The introduction of mechanical clocks in the 14th century further solidified this timekeeping system in Europe.


What is the order of these units of time - second day hour century week month fortnight decade millennium?

From smallest to largest:secondhour (60 minutes, 3600 seconds)day (24 hours)week (7 days)fortnight (14 days, from fourteen night)month (28 to 31 days)decade (10 years, 120 months)century (10 decades, 100 years)millennium (1000 years)The only standard unit missing is the minute (60 seconds).


How long did it take to sail 100 miles in a ship before there were propelled engines?

Under ideal conditions, a purpose-built fast clipper ship could maintain 2l Knots and over a 24 Hour period this would amount to about a day"s Run of close to 500Miles. These are exceptional cases with crack crews and handling and ideal weather conditons, runing before the wind, as they say. Around about l850 the major speed records were made under sail . I believe the(Champion of the Seas) was quoted with the 2l Knots over 24 Hours which is real (Bonneville stuff) for sailing ships.