We all know that February is a funny month — every four years it has one extra day (February 29) instead of the normal 28 days. When February has 29 days, we call it a leap year. The year 2000 was a leap year. But 1900 was not. And neither 1800 nor 1700 were leap years. But...
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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...
There were a lot of things transpiring during that time. Steve Smith, 2000 USA Olympic team guard: We had a little adversity with Alonzo Mourning and the situation he was going through. He flew all the way back home to see the birth of his child. When he flew...
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Here are the rules of leap years: A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4. Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap ...
It was not until the mid-1970s that encryption took a major leap forward. Until this point, all encryption schemes used the same secret for encrypting and decrypting a message: a symmetric key. Encryption was almost exclusively used only by governments and large enterprises until the late 1970...
I bought an immediate annuity a few years ago when interest rates were higher. Is it possible to put more money into that annuity policy to get the same rate? Or do I need to get a new policy if it's with the same insurance company? Hersh Stern (ImmediateAnnuities.com) 2015-07-27...
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It was purely solar and counted a year at 365.25 days, so once every four years an extra day was added. Before that, the Romans counted a year at 355 days, at least for a time. But still, under Julius, there was drift. There were too many leap years! The solar year isn’t ...