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leap year
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leap year: see calendar calendar [Lat., from Kalends], system of reckoning time for the practical purpose of recording past events and calculating dates for future plans. The calendar is based on noting ordinary and easily observable natural events, the cycle of the sun through the seasons
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leap year
a calendar year of 366 days, February 29 (leap day) being the additional day, that occurs every four years (those whose number is divisible by four) except for century years whose number is not divisible by 400. It offsets the difference between the length of the solar year (365.2422 days) and the calendar year of 365 days
leap year [′lēp ‚yir]
(astronomy)
A year with 366, and not 365, days.
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It also emerged that three quarters of the 3,000 surveyed know Kerry Katona's first husband was Bryan McFadden, however, 20 percent don't know February 29th was a Leap Day.
Brits know more about celebs than historical events by Asian News International
Leap days occur once every four years because it takes 365 days plus six hours for our planet to complete an orbit around the Sun.
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THE chance of being born on a Leap Day is about 684 out of a million, that's 1 in 1,461.
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