I feel sorry for anyone born on February 29 - losing out on all those birthdays. The reason that extra day is added every four years has to do with the earth's circling the sun in slightly excess of 365 days so if Julius Caesar hadn't proposed adding that extra day, we would lose six hours every year and after 100 years we would be 24 days behind - and never catch up. But I keep coming back to the issue of birthday deprivation coupled with the fact that when you are twenty you will look and feel like eighty. Yikes!
tjs
Next - The March of Time
No comments:
Post a Comment