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The 365-day year has been subdivided a number of ways over time; the current 12 months of not-quite-uniform length with exceptions every 4 and every 100 years is undoubtedly messy. The French revolutionary calendar had 12 30-day months plus a 5 (or presumably 6) day "intercalary" period, but […]

#Imagine how cool the #intercalary #chapters would have been if #Moby #Dick had been #written eight years after #Origin of the #Species instead of eight years before.

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The Latins got their calendar system when they conquered the Etruscans. The first "Roman" version of that calendar named the extra period between December and March the "intercalary". It was a named tranche of the calendar until 45BC.

February 29th is our #intercalary.

Definition of intercalary intercalary having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:nnn #definition #meaning #intercalary #ielts #learnenglish #education #british

intercalary
- Having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year:

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I am doing an #intercalary day omen practice for the coming year; my #omen for yesterday was a gorgeous fat #bluejay flying north. OFC it wasn't sitting still for a picture so here's an #AI image I created for my journal. #bird #birb #aiart @themoonshed