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.
When he woke, it was already the next morning, the beginning of the longest day Max had ever known.
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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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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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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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