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  2. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year. The 366th day (or 13th month) is added to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical year or seasonal year . [ 1 ]

  3. Redistricting in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Legislature passed maps for the state House of Representatives in 1971, but it did not pass state Senate maps, forcing the Legislative Redistricting Board to convene for the first time to draw the chamber's maps. The map for the state Senate passed the scrutiny of the courts, but the map for the state House did not. [96]

  4. Leap week calendar - Wikipedia

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    The ISO week date is an example of a leap week calendar that eliminate the month. A leap week calendar can take advantage of the 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar, as it has exactly 20,871 weeks: with 329 common years of 52 weeks plus 71 leap years of 53 weeks, a leap week calendar would synchronize with the Gregorian every 400 years ...

  5. Caesar created a new Julian calendar for Rome that measured a year as 365.25 days long, as the original Roman year was 10 days shorter than a modern year. The seasons were thrown off as a result ...

  6. What is a leap year? Everything to know about February's ...

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    It's not a leap century year either since it isn't divisible by 400. However, because they can be evenly divided by 400, the years 1600 and 2020, were both leap century years.

  7. Leap year superstitions and traditions from around the world

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    For a year to be a leap year, it has to be divisible by four or 400. “The Earth takes approximately 365.2422 days to complete one orbit around the sun, which is slightly longer than 365 days.

  8. Pax Calendar - Wikipedia

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    To get the same mean year as the Gregorian Calendar this leap week is added to 71 of the 400 years in the cycle. The years with leap week are years whose last two digits are a number that is divisible by six (including 00) or 99: however, if a year number ending in 00 is divisible by 400, then Pax is cancelled.

  9. Why do we have Leap Year? A guide to the calendar's bonus day

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    So, what do you do when your birthday disappears from the calendar? On a non-Leap Year, some leapers choose to celebrate the big day on Feb. 28. ... Out of around 19.5 million people in NYS in ...