Articles related to "Leap Year"

Celebrate Leap Year in 2008 with the following online projects for children that are fun, educational and free.

Leap year activities to engage students to learn why we have a leap year.

Kids born on February 29 - "Leap Day" - will likely enjoy the special attention that goes along with having a birth date that's not on the calendar every year.

Leap year explained can introduce children to the mystery and fun of calendars.

Zune's marketing woke to a New Year's Day hangover and iPod marketing danced with glee, as the last hours of '08 brought a leap year surprise to the MP3 giants.

Originally lunar based, the Roman calendar measured the Roman civic year. Its reorganisation by Julius Caesar made it the basis for the modern western calendar.

in 1752, England finally followed the rest of Europe in the change to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, thereby creating consistent dates on one calendar.

Judaism bases its yearly rotation of festivals and other events on a combined lunar calendar and solar calendar, a tradition that dates back thousands of years.

"That" and "which" can be easily confused in writing, but with a few simple rules, these pronouns make more sense.

India's numerous calendars count the days by the sun, the moon, a combination of the two, or by the Indian Zodiac of rashis, and beginning from several different Eras.

In 1968, students protested the Vietnam War, focused the Olympics on civil rights, faced tanks in Prague, and generally tried to change the world; but to what end?

Different ancient cultures and books, seers, and even a modern computer program have made 2012 doomsday predictions. Here are a collection of the predictions.

To avoid data inaccuracies and the potential for disasters, there must be a corporate-wide awareness of data quality and a recogniton of the importance of corporate data.

Do you build monthly holidays into your lesson plans? Here's an overview of monthly celebrations from January to June.

New Year, although it falls on January 1st for followers of the Gregorian calander, this is not the case across the world.

Oakland stuns its one-time Super Bowl rival in a 31-24 performance.

Knights improve to 7-2 with thorough defeat of Lafayette.

For Sammy Sosa 1998 was a leap year. He leaped 66 times from home plate to run the bases freely, untouched and with a radiant smile that captivated America.

Birthday, anniversary, special Occasion? Discover who was born on this day and what momentous occasions also took place on this day in history.

The Indian New Year's Day is determined by the Mesha Sankranti or the solar transit into Aries, but after that it's up for grabs.

The Summer Solstice does not occur on the same day every year. How can a programmer cope with this changing date?

Finding and crafting a Yule Log is a Christmas tradition that can involve your kids in the magic of the holiday season with no shopping required.

Children with an artistic bent will certainly enjoy designing and producing their own calendars with this educational calendar project for kids.

In 1752, Sept. 2 was followed by Sept. 14. That's when time-keeping changed from OS (Old Style) to what it is now.

Andrew Kirby talks to Suite 101 about how he placed his genre fiction novel and what inspired him to become an author.

A humourous political party in Germany has been barred from appearing on the ballot in that country's September 2009 election; others happily continue their activities.

Kids learn to make perpetual calendars to give as Christmas gifts. What is a perpetual calendar? How does it differ from a regular calendar?