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The Why - TheDay
The French RevolutionaryCalendar(1793-1806) was pretty cool because it involved 12 months of 30 days each— and, according toAstronomyAnswers Web site,[...]
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Day of the Leaplings - Pictou Country Nova Scotia News
Maybe Grover's interest inastronomyhas something to do with him being born on a leap year. Or maybe he really is destined to compete in the Olympics,[...]
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Leapin' birthdays! - Journal Inquirer
...he realized that the 365-daycalendardidn't quite equal the solar year, according to Anthony Fasano, an adjunctastronomyand earth science professor[...]
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Statement by NASA Administrator Griffin Before the Senate ... - Space Ref (press release)
This past year also saw the first test flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy(SOFIA) 747 airborne infrared observatory,[...]
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On Feb. 29, let's take a minute to think about the clock - Houston Chronicle
Caroline Sumners, the museum's vice president forastronomyand the physical sciences, says visitors often stare at the pendulum until they see a pin fall.[...]
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‘People used to say I was telling fibs’ - Huddersfield Examiner
EVERY four years we get an extra day to keep thecalendarin line withastronomy. This produces people who live until they are 360 and ladies of a desperate[...]
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Leap Day reading: A world off its rocker - Los Angeles Times
To wit: Who are you to wish me well on holidays drawn from your"rational" sun-worshipping eurocentriccalendar? My lunarcalendar, where holidays show up[...]
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Leapin' birthdays - Journal Inquirer
...he realized that the 365-daycalendardidn't quite equal the solar year, according to Anthony Fasano, an adjunctastronomyand earth science professor[...]
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Spring break with kids: dinosaurs, NASA and more - Austin American-Statesman
Check out the museum's planetarium, where you can sit down and crane your neck for a variety ofastronomy-related shows on its dome-shaped ceiling.[...]
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Happy Leap Day! - Action Figure Insider - Best Toy News on the Web!
Bacon wrote,"Thecalendaris intolerable to all wisdom, the horror ofastronomy, and a laughing-stock from a mathematician’s point of view.[...]
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