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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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Does a leap year occur because the tilt of the earth's axis changes?

No. The leap year happens because it actually takes the Earth 365 and a quarter days to go round the sun. The quarter days are ignored most of the time but to stop the calendar going out of sync, an extra day is added every 4 years so everything adds up. The tilt of the Earth causes the change of the seasons.

How many days were in a leap year in 1944?

In 1944, there were 366 days in a leap year. Leap years occur every four years and have an extra day, February 29th, to account for the slightly longer time it takes the Earth to orbit the sun.

How many years can you get for an illegal sniper?

The penalties for illegal activities, such as using a sniper illegally, can vary depending on the jurisdiction and specific circumstances. In many countries, the use of a sniper rifle without proper authorization or in the commission of a crime can result in severe penalties, including significant prison sentences ranging from several years to life imprisonment, especially if someone is injured or killed as a result of the illegal actions. It is essential to consult local laws for accurate information.

What is the movie title 'Leap Year' in French?

Année bissextile is a French equivalent to the title of the movie 'Leap Year'. The feminine noun 'année' means 'year long'. The adjective 'bissextile' refers to a number or a sum that can be divided by the number 'four'. Together, they're pronounced 'ah-neh bee-seh-steel'.

When does Saturday February 29 occur after 2020?

The next year after 2020 in which 29 Feb falls on a Saturday is 2048.

What year is your 3970010 block number K03 25 TXE?

The 3970010 block number is often associated with Chevrolet small-block V8 engines produced between the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, without specific additional details or context, it is difficult to determine the exact year or application of the engine. The "K03 25 TXE" code doesn't provide any recognizable information related to the year or application.

How do you convert 15 months into years?

To convert months to years, divide the number of months by 12. So, 15 months divided by 12 equals 1.25 years.

How can you make 50000 dollars in a year?

AnswerSell 50000 of something you make a 1 on. Sell 25000 of something you make a 2 on. Sell 12500 of something you make a 4 on. Sell 6250 of something you make a 8 on. Sell 3125 of something you make a 16 on. Sell 1562.5 of something you make a 32 on. Sell 781.25 of something you make a 64 on. Sell 390.63 of something you make a 128 on.

or just buy 100 shares of Apple INC. Stock at 125$ and wait 15 years.

$25 x 50 = $1250 x 40 = $ 50,000

its that simple

Why has your agapanthus not bloomed this year?

If planted indoors in a pot:

Needs to be somewhat root bound to bloom. Feed it once per week with a fertilizer high in phosphorus. Soil should not be soggy. Needs plenty of sunshine.

If planted in the ground:

Feed with a fertilizer high in phosphorus. Make sure the soil is well drained. Agapanthus do not like to be disturbed. If you planted them recently then it may take a year or two for them to get adjusted to the new environment. The larger the foliage clump the heavier the blooms. Once adjusted they will thrive in most conditions...but never below 20 degrees.

What year was marlin 3030 serial number19018664 made?

The M prefix indicates 1955 mfg.

Starting on April 14,1955, the last digits of the serial number were etched on the bottom of the bolt of the 336.

http://armscollectors.com/sn/marlinlookup.php

Is the FIFA world cup held in leap years?

There is no particular reason. It is just on a 4 year cycle that started in 1930, which wasn't a leap year. With the exception of 1942 and 1946, due to World War II, it has been held every 4 years since then. Leap years have other major sporting events in them that are also on 4 year cycles. It would be a bit crowded if all sports events that follow 4 year cycles were all held in leap years and it would leave the other years with less events for sports fans. So many sporting events that are on 4 year cycles, such as the FIFA World Cup, happen to be in different years.

What year did surfing start?

The Surf exists, probably more than 1000 years and is one of the oldest practices of mankind. Glide over the waves is possibly one of the oldest sports in the history of mankind. However, the Surf is rediscovered by the first English sailors visiting Polynesia in the eighteenth century, it does not appear as a sport until the late nineteenth century and became popular in the second decade of the twentieth century. The rest of the disciplines associated with this water sport are appearing over time as a logical evolution of surfing. You can find more info on the History of Surfing in TotalSurfCamp.

'write a program to check whether given year is a leap year or not?

#include

using namespace std;

int main()

{

short numberOfDays = 0;

cout << "Enter a number of days (365 or 366): ";

cin >> numberOfDays;

if (numberOfDays == 365)

{

cout << "\nIt's not a leap year\n";

}

else

{

cout << "\nIt's a leap year\n";

}

return 0;

}

What was the year between 1 BC and 1 AD?

1 AD.

The historic numbering of years based on the Christian calendar omits any "zero year." The years of events are numbered forward and backward from a single point: midnight on December 31, 1 BC was followed by 12:01 AM on January 1 in 1 AD.

How many pay periods in one year if you are paid biweekly?

there r 52 weeks.. so biweekly would make 104 pay periods

No, you divide 52 by 2 if you are paid biweekly, therefore there are 26 pay periods in a year. There would be 104 pay periods if you were paid twice a week, not paid once every 2 weeks.

What year did the English find Virginia?

In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the area of Roanoke Island. He named the land Virginia, in honor of Queen Elizabeth, known as The Virgin Queen. The following year, Raleigh established a colony on Roanoke but it did not survive. It became known as the Lost Colony. In 1607, the first permanent English settlement in America was founded in Jamestown, Virginia. MrV In the 1580's, a group that included Sir Humphry Gilbert and his younger half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh promoted a scheme to establish outposts that could trade with the Indians and also provide bases for attacks on Spain. Approving the idea, Queen Elizabeth I authorized Raleigh and Gilbert to Colonize North America. After two preliminary expeditions in 1587, Raleigh sent 117 colonists to the territory he named Virginia for Queen Elizabeth, the "Virgin Queen". They established a settlement on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina, but in 1590 a resupply ship could not find them. The colonists had vanished. The only remnince of the colonists found on the settlement was the word CROATOAN on a nearby tree.(S.Menzel)

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.