Leap Day Flash Mob Event Cache
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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Celebrate Leap Day at the staggering Ox. Our mob may not have much flash, but, There will be a picture taken at 6:30 to commemorate this event. come early or stay after.
Leap Years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth's revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days (a tropical year) to circle once around the Sun. If we didn't add a day on February 29 nearly every 4 years, we would lose almost six hours every year. After only 100 years, our calendar would be off by approximately 24 days!
Julius Caesar implemented a new calendar – the Julian Calendar – in 45 BCE (Before Common Era) with an extra day added every 4 years. At the time, Leap Day was February 24, because February was the last month of the year.
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