Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Who invented the weekend?

I never thought about this before I read it here:

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20050617.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually it was in the 1870's when the Cadbury factory in Birmingham introduced a half day holiday per week on a Saturday afternoon. The term 'weekend' then became widely used.

I'm supposed to be writing an essay on it atm >_>

Bobby "the Blue" said...

Thanks for the info! You should correct Ask Yahoo!