he had formulated the goal of the eight-hour day and coined the slogan: "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest". Women and children...
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The Hours of the Day (Spanish: Las horas del día) is a 2003 Spanish drama film directed by Jaime Rosales (in his feature film debut) from a screenplay...
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times a day "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated...
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Decimal time (redirect from Decimalization of time of day)
France from 1794 to 1800, during the French Revolution, which divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each...
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is the act 3 finale of the opera La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli. It depicts the hours of the day through solo and ensemble dances. The opera...
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The planetary hours are an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed...
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Hours of the Day is an outdoor memorial and sculpture commemorating correctional workers by Paul Raff Studios, installed in Toronto, Ontario. The work...
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The six-hour day is a schedule by which the employees or other members of an institution (which may also be, for example, a school) spend six hours contributing...
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Light-second (redirect from Light-hours)
international foot) to the light-minute, light-hour and light-day, which are sometimes used in popular science publications. The more commonly used light-year...
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The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated...
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The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a political thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the...
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"The Hour and the Day" is the fourth episode of the third season of the American anthology crime drama television series True Detective. It is the 20th...
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point of time following or preceding a specific action, respectively. Thus, H−3 means 3 hours before H-Hour, and D+3 means 3 days after D-Day. (By extension...
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a 2016 American biographical action-thriller film, directed and produced by Michael Bay. Written by Chuck...
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and Eileen Atkins. The Hours premiered in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002 and was given a limited release in the United States two...
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The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 novel...
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hours, also known as temporal hours or unequal hours, varied by season and latitude. Equal hours or equinoctial hours were taken as 1⁄24 of the day as...
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24/7 service (redirect from 24 hours a day)
every day. An alternate orthography for the numerical part includes 24×7 (usually pronounced "twenty-four by seven"). The numerals stand for "24 hours a day...
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24 Hours a Day or Twenty-Four Hours a Day may refer to: Twenty-Four Hours A Day, a 1954 book by Richmond Walker 24 Hours a Day, a 1997 album by the Bottle...
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might require eighty man-hours, while preparing a family banquet from scratch might require ten man-hours. Man-hours exclude the breaks that people generally...
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same unit: "D−1" (the day before D-Day), "L+9" (9 hours after L-Hour) etc.[citation needed] In less formal contexts, the symbol or numeral may be spelled...
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A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours (86,400 seconds). As a day passes at a...
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The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record...
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The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before...
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The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. After most people in the world are blinded...
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Working time (redirect from Hours of work)
work day and 40-hour work week (44 hours in specified workplaces). The overtime limits are: 15 hours a week, 27 hours over two weeks, 43 hours over four...
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The Day and the Hour (French: Le jour et l'heure) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret and Stuart...
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This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! is the second studio album by English rock band Pop Will Eat Itself, released on 1 May 1989 by RCA...
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado (also known as Sicario 2: Soldado and Soldado) is a 2018 American crime thriller film directed by Stefano Sollima and written...
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Saturday (redirect from Saturn's Day)
principle of astrology that the heavenly bodies presided, in succession, over the hours of the day. The association of the weekdays with the respective...
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