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2008 A Leap Year

A Leap Year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, February would have 29 days in a leap year instead of the usual 28. February 29 is a day added into a leap year, a 60th day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining till the end of the year.

February 29 is also known as bissextile day. A year which has a February 29 is, by definition, a leap year. This date occurs only every four years, in years evenly divisible by 4, such as 1988, 1996, 2008 or 2016, with the exceptions in century years not divisible by 400, such as 1900.

Leapling:

Morarji DesaiA person who was born on 29 February may be called a “leapling”. In non-leap years they usually celebrate their birthday on 28 February or 1 March. So as our Sri Morarji Ranchhodji Desai an Indian freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister born on February 29, 1896. Continue reading

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Olympics 2008

On July 13th 2001 the IOC elected Beijing to be the host of the Olympic Games in 2008. Beijing was selected over its competitors Paris, Toronto, Osaka and Istanbul. The slogan of the games is “One World, One Dream” and there are three main themes:

# Green Olympic Games

# High-Tech Olympic Games

# People’s Olympic Games

Olympic 2008 Mascots

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2008 The Year of the Frog

2008 Year of the frog
In 2008, AArk will lead zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums in a globally coordinated public awareness campaign “The Year of the Frog.” The main goal of this campaign is to generate public awareness and understanding of the amphibian extinction crisis which represents the greatest species conservation challenge in the history of humanity. Continue reading

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