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Happy Leap Day!

I won’t be able to blog this holiday for another four years, so I better make this one count.

 

Leap Day is the day that keeps our calendar in line with the sun and the seasons in whack [...]

Are You Bissextile?

Answer: only during Leap Year…

 

The great-grand-daddy of our February 29th Leap Day goes back to the ancient Romans. I know what you’re thinking: Don’t we have anything that doesn’t go back to them? Uh, yes: numbers, and [...]

Liberation Day – Kuwait

 

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“Liberation Day (February 26) celebrates the liberation of Kuwait by a multi-national force from seven months of traumatic Iraqi occupation on February 26, 1991. Each year the day is marked with public gatherings and get-togethers. However, the day is also tinged with sadness as Kuwait remembers and honours [...]