Located atop the stairs alongside Crescent Road NW, this event will be an opportunity to attend a quick gathering of the clan. Pay attention to area signage - there is plenty of free parking along here.
Schedule of events:
5:00 pm: Gathering at the posted coordinates to admire "the view"
5:10 pm: Performing feats of Strength [walking to the bottom and back up again]*
5:15 pm: Recovering from the feats of strength
5:20 pm: The Airing of Grievances
5:25 pm: Posing for group photo
5:30 pm: Shouting HAPPY Bissextile Day, then quietly dispersing ....
* Note: the stair climb is optional.
A leap year is a year that has an extra day—366 days, with February 29 as the extra day. It has another name in English: bissextile year (and leap day is also known as bissextile day).
Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar, which replaced the extra month with an extra day in February. 'Bissextile day' comes from the Latin 'bissextus' and means the "second sixth day" or "double sixth day."
In the original ten-month Roman calendar, days that marked the position of the moon were named: the calends was the first day of the month, or new moon, and the ides was the middle of the month, or full moon. An extra month was added every few years to ensure that agricultural festivals and holidays remained at the appropriate time of year. Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar, which added days to each month throughout the year and replaced the extra month with an extra day—a leap day. Because the Romans referred to dates according to their relationship with the named days, the sixth day before the first day of March was called diem sextum Kalendas Martias ("the sixth day before the calends of March").
The extra day fell on February 24 (when the former extra month was added) and was therefore called the bissextile day or bissextus, “second sixth day” or “double sixth day.” In Latin bis means “twice” and sextus means “sixth.” The word bissext was also used in English to refer to leap day. Days inserted into the calendar are called intercalary days.
According to the Merriam Webster online Dictionary at least!