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Leap Year
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Whiteville
Daily
News This is the day our Lord has made. Many
of
you might recall from your
school days that a year is not exactly 365 days. It takes the planet
365.242 days to complete a trip around the sun. After four years,
those extra .242 days add up to a whole extra day. Like many
advancements in civilization, the concept of a leap year came from the
Egyptians. They first began using a calendar with a leap year during
the Ptolemaic
dynasty (300-30 B.C.) How did they know? Extra Terrestrial, can you
belive.
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