Happy Leap day !! Yes 2012 is a leap year and today is leap day, so, you have an extra day, how are you going to spend it?
“A leap year occurs every four years to help synchronize the calendar year with the solar year, or the length of time it takes the earth to complete its orbit about the sun, which is about 365¼ days.
The length of the solar year, however, is slightly less than 365¼ days—by about 11 minutes. To compensate for this discrepancy, the leap year is omitted three times every four hundred years.
In other words, a century year cannot be a leap year unless it is divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years”
Read more: Leap Year Explained — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/leapyear1.html#ixzz1naklE7lA
How many of you who started Project 365 this year realised its actually a Project 366!! what a great year to take part in such a project!!
is anyone creating a scrapbook layout or project specifically for February 29th? Why not post a link in the comments section of this post for us to see!!
Do you celebrate your birthday today? if so “Happy Birthday” !!! you are one in about 4million people accross the world to be a leap day baby, the chances of being born on leap day are about 1 in 1500!!
In 1904, in Germany, a boy was born on leap day, and to mark this fact he was given a name for every letter in the alphabet:
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft Sr.
Shortened to Mr Wolfe Plus 585 Sr. Its supposedly the world’s longest name officially used by a person !!!
Who is planning to propose to there significant other this year ?? Did you know the history behind this tradition??
“According to an old Irish legend, or possibly history, St Bridget struck a deal with St Patrick to allow women to propose to men – and not just the other way around – every 4 years. This is believed to have been introduced to balance the traditional roles of men and women in a similar way to how Leap Day balances the calendar.”
Read more: Leap Year traditions — http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leap-day-february-29.html
I hope you enjoyed this little bit of Leap Day trivia, remember Leap Day is an extra day. So why not do something good with it!?
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Thanks for all this fun trivia! I am going to share this with my kids at dinner tonight. I know they will love it!
Glad you enjoyed it!! Hope they did too xx