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Opposite Day is a make believe game usually played by children. Conceptually, Opposite Day is a holiday where things are said and done in an opposite manner. It is not a holiday on any calendar and therefore one can declare that any day of the year is Opposite Day (sometimes retroactively) to indicate something which will be said, or has just been said should be understood opposite to its ...
Microsoft Excel displays the day before January 1, 1900 (the earliest date it can represent) as January 0, 1900. [17] It also treats 1900 incorrectly as a leap year (whereas only centuries divisible by 400 are), so it displays the day before March 1, 1900 as the non-existent February 29 instead of February 28. This means March 1, 1900 is the ...
Enigmatic is an adjective meaning "mysterious" or "puzzling". It may also refer to: Enigmatic, a 1970 album by Czesław Niemen; Enigmatic: Calling, a 2005 album by Norwegian progressive metal band Pagan's Mind; Enigmatic scale, musical scale used by Verdi and others "The Enigmatic", a song by Joe Satriani on the album Not of This Earth
An antedated contract is a contract whose date is in the past; formally, a contract where the effective date on the contract is prior to the date on which the contract is executed (written, signed, made effective). The term is from Latin ante meaning "before", and its antonym is postdate.
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
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Moving forward or back 24 hours generally also implies a one day date change. The 14th century Arab geographer Abulfeda predicted that circumnavigators would accumulate a one-day offset to the local date. [2] This phenomenon was confirmed in 1522 at the end of the Magellan–Elcano expedition, the first successful circumnavigation.
Jon Hamm says he will be "forever grateful" to Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels for his prolific career.. Speaking with reporters following his crowning as the 2025 Hasty Pudding Man of ...