It's a leap year, and today — Thursday, Feb. 29 — is Leap Day. The calendar oddity means this year is actually 366 days long, instead of the regular 365. Here's why leap years occur. What is the purpose of a leap year? Leap years exist because while the world follows a ...
Simply put, aleap yearis a year with an extra day—February 29—added nearly every 4 years to the calendar year. Why Are Leap Years Necessary? Adding an extra day every 4 years keeps our calendar aligned correctly with theastronomical seasons—since a year according to the Gregorian calendar...
The Gregorian calendar continues to be used by much of the modern world today, and because the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not divisible by 400, they were not considered to be leap years. Using the Gregorian calendar system, the next year that is slated to be a leap year but won...
The movieLeap Yearstarring Amy Adams is (spoiler) aromantic comedycentered around a leap year proposal love story. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a once-in-every-four-year opportunity to participate in an age-oldIrish proposal tradition. While some aspects of this approach ...
The Gregorian calendar continues to be used by much of the modern world today, and because the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not divisible by 400, they were not considered to be leap years. Using the Gregorian calendar system, the next year that is slated to be a leap year but won...
Through interviews with coaches, teammates, analysts, confidants, opponents and witnesses, here lies an oral history of what is often considered the greatest in-game dunk ever, and the motivation of the man who delivered it.Carter relives Olympic dunk over 7-foot-2 cen...
"Take the leap of faith," says Scutti, a senior at Ole Miss. "It's a very different study abroad program, but it is so rewarding. You get to experience so much and so many different cultures and just get to meet some really incredible people. There are so many different schools repre...
Since this April marked the two-year anniversary of the launch of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, it’s a particularly appropriate time to reflect on what’s worked well, what hasn’t and what still remains to accomplish.
If there are two Leap Months in a Lunar Year, then the first Leap Month after the Winter Solstice is considered intercalary.There are no strong astronomical reasons to make those rules for the Chinese Calendar. Actually, they are only thumb-of-rule to determine the location of Leap Months. ...
To this day, the Lunar New Year celebration is centered around removing bad luck and welcoming all that is good and prosperous. Red is considered an auspicious color to ring in the new year. In many Asian cultures, the color symbolizes good fortune and joy. People dress in red attire, dec...