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  2. The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom - Wikipedia

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    The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom is a play written by African American abolitionist William Wells Brown. While the play was published in 1858, it was not officially produced until 1971 at Emerson College. [1] It is one of the earliest extant pieces of African American dramatic literature.

  3. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 are. [8] 1800 calendar, showing that February had only 28 days

  4. What’s the point of a Leap Year? Why 2024 brings 29 days of ...

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    The rule is that if the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400, the leap year is skipped. The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not.

  5. Why We Have Leap Years - AOL

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    That resulted in the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 losing their leap day, but 2000 adding one. Every other fourth year in all of these centuries would get it's Feb. 29. And with that the calendrical ...

  6. 2024 is a leap year, but why? Here’s the science behind the ...

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    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 years, but ...

  7. 1800 - Wikipedia

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    1800 was an exceptional common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1800th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 800th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1800s decade. As of ...

  8. Without Leap Years, Christmas would wind up being in ... - AOL

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    The post Without Leap Years, Christmas would wind up being in the summer appeared first on TheGrio. ... In the past 500 years, there was no leap day in 1700, 1800 and 1900, but 2000 had one. In ...

  9. Thomas Fuller (mental calculator) - Wikipedia

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    On being asked how many seconds a man has lived, who is seventy years, seventeen days and twelve hours old, he answered, in a minute and a half, 2,210,500,800. One of the gentlemen, who employed himself with his pen in making these calculations, told him he was wrong, and that the sum was not so great as he had said-upon which the old man ...