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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. Tropical year - Wikipedia

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    According to Blackburn and Holford-Strevens (who used Newcomb's value for the tropical year) if the tropical year remained at its 1900 value of 365.242 198 781 25 days the Gregorian calendar would be 3 days, 17 min, 33 s behind the Sun after 10,000 years. Aggravating this error, the length of the tropical year (measured in Terrestrial Time) is ...

  4. Leap year starting on Thursday - Wikipedia

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    A leap year starting on Thursday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Thursday 1 January, and ends on Friday 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are DC . The most recent year of such kind was 2004 , and the next one will be 2032 in the Gregorian calendar [ 1 ] or, likewise, 2016 and 2044 in the obsolete ...

  5. Typhoon Hester (1971) - Wikipedia

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    Typhoon Hester of October 1971 was regarded as one of the most destructive storms to strike Vietnam since 1944. [1] Developing as a tropical depression on October 18 near Palau, Hester gradually intensified as it moved westward towards the Philippines. Across the Philippines, Hester was responsible for six deaths and ₱5 million in damage.

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

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    A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4. 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 ...

  7. Leap year starting on Tuesday - Wikipedia

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    A leap year starting on Tuesday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Tuesday, 1 January, and ends on Wednesday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are FE. The most recent year of such kind was 2008, and the next one will be 2036 in the Gregorian calendar [1] or, likewise 2020 and 2048 in the obsolete ...

  8. 2024 is a leap year. Here's what that means — and why we ...

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    The year 2000 was a leap year, but it broke one of the rules: 2000/4 = 500 ...That completes the 1st rule. 2000/100 = 20 ...That breaks the leap year rule,

  9. Tết Trung Thu - Wikipedia

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    A Bảo Đại period document issued by the Imperial Clan Court which mentions the Tết Trung Thu. Tết Trung Thu originated from Chinese culture, with three main legends that are associated with the festival: the story of Chang'e and Hou Yi, Emperor Tang Ming Huang's ascent to the moon in China, and the story of Uncle Cuội of Vietnam.