Tuesday will be the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Held each June on the closest weekend to the longest day of the year (this year from 22 to 24 June), midsummer is Finland's most enthusiastic party -- an excuse for lakeshore bonfires, midnight airshows, drinking games, skinny dipping, saunas and all-you-can-eat banquets of grillimakkara (grilled sausages) served with mustard and the season's first new potatoes.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The longest, strangest day at the Masters for Tiger Woods began with a text message from his agent Saturday morning to meet with Augusta National officials nearly six hours before his tee time.
When he woke, it was already the next morning, the beginning of the longest day Max had ever known.
Ryan's The Longest Day, a 1959 book about D-Day, sold millions of copies and was made into an epic film with an all-star cast.
Doubtfire, " "Doctor Dolittle, " "Last of the Mohicans, " and "Office Space, " as well as classics like "The Longest Day, " "All About Eve, " "9 to 5, " and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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This year the long debated theory that the tallest stone at the site is perfectly aligned to the sunset on the longest day, was shown to be highly plausible by site Steward Tim Daw.
Also making its premier U.S. appearance was the Patrimony Traditionnelle 14-Day Tourbillon, featuring the longest power reserve of any tourbillon in creation today, according to Vacheron Constantin, and is also the first Vacheron Constantin watch to be approved based on the new 2011 Hallmark of Geneva criteria.
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By far, the most important event on his 10-day trip to Asia the longest foreign jaunt of his presidency is the G-20 in Seoul on Thursday and Friday.
At the same time, the Dow hasn't suffered a three-day losing streak all year, the longest such streak in history.
The longest work stoppage was a 51-day dispute between three Queens, New York, bus lines and the Transport Workers, which also was the only dispute in 2002 that lasted more than 50 days.
The Dow hasn't suffered a three-day losing streak in 87 days, the longest such run since 1958.
As Bloomberg noted on Thursday, the seven day string of declines seen from the 10-year notes marks the longest streak of losses in over half a decade.
Amid the rally, the blue-chip measure hasn't suffered a three-day losing streak in 87 days, the longest such run since 1958.
Whatever the final verdict on France's longest-serving modern day leader, his passing away was deeply grieved.
The torch will be taken on a 130-day journey around the world in what is said to be the longest torch relay in Olympic history.
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"It will be a day of reckoning and I think you are going to see the chancellor forecast the longest recession that Britain has had since World War II, " he said.
Following the death of the charismatic Reuther, the low-key Woodcock was immediately thrust into national contract negotiations with with the "Big Three" auto companies and led the union through a bitter 67-day nationwide strike against General Motors, longest ever.
Frindall, the longest serving member of the Test Match Special team, took particular delight that his birth coincided with the first day of the "timeless Test" between South Africa and England in Durban on 3 March 1939, a game which lasted an unprecedented 11 days.
The four-day trading hiatus since the twin towers of the World Trade Center imploded on Tuesday morning has been the longest break in the U.S. since the special banking holidays ordered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
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