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Leap Year

A leap year is a year containing one extra day in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Typically once every four years, the exceptions can make this tricky to determine.

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Will technoligy get better in the next 20 years?

Technology will change our lives in the next twenty years without doubt ..

Evey time we fine new things and we start to fit with them ..........

As long as the technology is still important and with time do it develops by scientists we will move to technology period which it control by our advance in this century .

What year did democracy start?

The word "democracy" combines the elements demos (which means "people") and kratos ("force, power"). Kratos is an unexpectedly brutish word. In the words "monarchy" and "oligarchy", the second element arche means rule, leading, or being first. It is possible that the term "democracy" was coined by its detractors who rejected the possibility of, so to speak, a valid "demarchy". Whatever its original tone, the term was adopted wholeheartedly by Athenian democrats.

The word is attested in Herodotus, who wrote some of the earliest Greek prose to survive, but even this may not have been before 440 or 430 BC. It is not at all certain that the word goes back to the beginning of the democracy, but from around 460 BC at any rate an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him 'Democrates', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

The Athenian democracy (sometimes called classical democracy) was the democratic system developed in the Greek city-state of Athens (comprising the central city-state of Athens and its surrounding territory Attica). Athens was one of the very first known democracies and probably the most important in ancient times. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most but not all following an Athenian model, but none were as powerful or as stable (or as well-documented) as that of Athens. It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy where the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open to all inhabitants of Attica, but the in-group of participants was constituted with no reference to economic class and they participated on a scale that was truly phenomenal. Never before had so many people spent so much of their time in governing themselves.

Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508 BC), and Ephialtes of Athens (462 BC) all contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Historians differ on which of them was responsible for which institutions, and which of them most represented a truly democratic movement. It is most usual to date Athenian democracy from Cleisthenes, since Solon's constitution broke down and was replaced by the tyrant Peisistratus, whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes' constitution relatively peacefully. The end of the Pisistratid tyranny was later attributed to the assassination of Hipparchus, the brother of the tyrant Hippias, by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, honored in later years by the Athenians for their alleged restoration of Athenian freedom. The assassination took place four years before the revolution; although the increased severity of the tyranny may have destabilized it. They were particularly popular with the aristocratic opponents of democracy.

The greatest and longest-lasting democratic leader was Pericles; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War. It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system. It was suppressed by the Macedonians in 322 BC. The Athenian institutions were later revived, but the extent to which they were a real democracy is debatable.

Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls - on the basis that they had a personal interest in the outcome of such debates because the practice of an invading army was at the time to destroy the land outside the walls. A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word 'idiot', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word ἰδιώτης (idiōtēs), meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics; such characters were talked about with contempt and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning. In his Funeral Oration, Pericles states: 'it is only we who regard the one not participating in these duties not as unambitious but as useless.'

In short the answer to your question: 6th Century BC. (the 500's). :]

What year did the landing at Gallipoli occur?

The first landing at Gallipoli was at dawn on 25 April 1915 by the Third

Brigade of the Australian First Division.

What year did daoism start?

It is believed that daoism started over 2000 years ago

Why did America consider 1968 such an important year?

I was born in 1968. .. sorry could not pass that up. 1968 was a year that we lost nearly 17,000 soldiers in Vietnam - one year we lost that many soldiers. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in April of 1968 and Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June of 1968.

When is leap year capitalized?

"Leap year" is not typically capitalized, unless it is used at the beginning of a sentence or in a title. It is written as "leap year" when referring to the extra day added to the calendar every four years.

Will 2012 be a leap year and was 2000 a leap year?

2012 is a leap year.

2000 was a leap year, and so were 2004 and 2008. Leap years will fall in almost every year that is evenly divisible by 4.

The exception is for years that end in "00" (1900, 2000, 2100). These will not be leap years unless, like 2000, they are also evenly divisible by 400.

When is the next leap year which has Friday January 1st?

After 2008, the next year to have five Fridays in February will be 2036.

Leap years between 1901-1999?

There have been 26 leap years since 1909. They were:

1912

1916

1920

1924

1928

1932

1936

1940

1944

1948

1952

1956

1960

1964

1968

1972

1976

1980

1984

1988

1992

1996

2000

2004

2008

2012

What year did the KKK start?

The first Ku Klux Klan was founded on December 24th, 1865 by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate army.

Was 1548 a leap year?

Yes, 1548 is evenly divisible by 4 and not evenly divisible by 100.

How many days are in 1 leap yr?

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What is the date of the extra day in a leap year?

The standard answer would be February 29, since only at leap year does February have more than 28 days. But in a way, isn't the extra day December 31? It is, after all, the 366th day of the year. Up until that day you have had an ordinary year of 365 days, ending on December 30.

How many leap years since 1870?

From 1870 to 2011 there have been 34 leap years.

What is the 200th day of a leap year?

The two hundredth day of a leap year is July 18.

How many years does a leap year come?

There are 4 years between every leap year.

Correction: There are 4 years between MOST leap years. That's the case 99.25% of the time. For the other 0.75% of the time, there are 8 years between leap years.

Was 1925 a leap year?

No, odd-numbered years are never leap years.

How many hours in a non leap year?

Well, there are 365 days in a "non leap year" and there are 24 hours in a day so 365x24=8760. But, every year which is not a leap year there is an extra quarter of a day so 24 divided by 4 =6, so there is another six hours on top of the 8760 so altogether there are 8766 hours in a "non leap year".

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What is our next leap year?

Infact this year is a leap year but after this year in is in 2016. We have a leap year every 4 years because every year there is an extra 1/4 day!!! :)

What happens to the earth when leap year comes?

Leap year is just a way for man to keep up on the math, it has nothing to do with the sun or the Earth. A year is classed as how long the earth takes to travel round the sun. This actually takes 365.25 days, but for easiness sake we say it lasts 365 exactly. Only this left a quarter of a day each year unaccounted for and this would soon add up and mess up the whole system of measuring years, seasons and such. To this end it was decided that every four years, on extra day would be added to calendar year, as every year a quarter of a day was lost, so four quarters make a whole day. The extra day in the leap year has no effect on the earth or the sun, it is simply a way of keeping the calendar year the correct length.