* Leap Day: February 29 ( Every four years, with some exceptions )

To enroll in Andrew's Leap, one must take a specialized test known as The Interesting Test.

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

In the order they appear, Quantum Leap, Wings, Sisters, The Round Table, and Law & Order.

*" Leap In and Try Things "-Interview with Brian Kernighan – on " Harmony at Work Blog ", October 2009.

Koolhaas's next landmark publications were a product of his position as professor at Harvard University, in the design school's " Project on the City "; firstly the 720-page Mutations, followed by The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping ( 2002 ) and The Great Leap Forward ( 2002 ).

In 1958 in China, Mao Zedong's Communist Government began the Great Leap Forward campaign, aimed at rapidly industrializing the country.

Over the course of the series, the viewer is given insight into the nature of the leaping process, in that the person that Sam leaps into is brought to the future at Project Quantum Leap, where he appears to everyone as Sam there ; in one episode, this person, a serial killer, escaped, preventing Sam from leaping until he was returned without incident to Project Quantum Leap.

He came from an Anglo-Irish landowning family seated at Leap Castle, King's County, Ireland.

Presuming all birthdays are equally probable, the probability of a given birthday for a person chosen from the entire population at random is 1 / 365 ( ignoring Leap Day, February 29 ).

Under Mao's leadership, he broke with the Soviet model and announced a new economic program, the " Great Leap Forward ", in 1958, aimed at rapidly raising industrial and agricultural production.

While taking a trip through the countryside, Peng was horrified at the wreckage of the Great Leap Forward.

He had left his hat, spectacles, compass, pipe and Mackintosh atop Govett's Leap at Blackheath, before falling 1000 feet to his death.

In the movie Leap Year ( 2010 ), the character Declan O ' Callaghan tells Anna Brady the story of Diarmuid's love affair as they look at Ballycarbery Castle once reaching the train station in County Tipperary.

In May 1958 Liu became the first senior CCP politician to openly denounce the Great Leap Forward, at the Second Session of the Eighth CCP National Congress.

The park at Hawk's Nest features a small museum and gift shop, an aerial tram ride to the New River Gorge, and spectacular overlooks including the famous " Lover's Leap ".

Having criticized Mao Zedong's " irrational high growth " policies during the Great Leap Forward, Zhu was labeled a " Rightist " in 1958 and sent to work as a teacher at a cadre school.

But at length by many hands overcome, Goemagog, the hugest, in hight twelve cubits, is reserved alive ; that with him Corineus, who desired nothing more, might try his strength, whom in a Wrestle the Giant catching aloft, with a terrible hugg broke three of his Ribs: Nevertheless Corineus, enraged, heaving him up by main force, and on his shoulders bearing him to the next high rock, threw him hedlong all shatter'd into the sea, and left his name on the cliff, called ever since Langoemagog, which is to say, the Giant's Leap.

On June 16, 1962, Peng submitted a document, his " Letter of 80, 000 Words ", to Mao and the Politburo, in which he gave a full account of his life, admitted to several " mistakes ", defended himself against most of the accusations made against him at the Lushan Conference, requested to be readmitted to decision-making government bodies, and sharply criticized the economic policies of the Great Leap Forward.

In the summer of 1959 the Party convened a meeting at the resort town of Lushan to review the policies of the Leap.

The campaign began at a time when the Chinese economy was recovering from the Great Leap Forward campaign.

Hong Kong based historian Frank Dikötter ( 2010 ) estimates that, at minimum, 45 million people died from starvation, overwork and state violence during the Great Leap, claiming his findings to be based on access to recently opened local and provincial party archives.

Former Chinese dissident and political prisoner, Minqi Li, a Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, has produced data showing that even the peak death rates during the Great Leap Forward were in fact quite typical in pre-Communist China.

Note that a magical horse Blind Byard is part of Lincolnshire folklore at Byard's Leap

Leap second warning bits are also provided, these announce leap seconds starting at the beginning of the UTC month ( 09: 00 JST on the first day of the month ), and ending with the leap second insertion ( just after 08: 59 JST on the first day of the following month ).

Chinese leader Mao Zedong, at this time weakened by the failure of the Great Leap Forward, saw war as a means of reasserting his authority.

After being released from a 21-day quarantine, the crew were feted across the United States and around the world as part of a 45-day " Giant Leap " tour.

While being chased, Captain Frye came upon a large rock, now known as Frye's Leap, and had no way of going around it.

Several films, including The Sundowners, Hud starring Paul Newman ( 1963 ), Leap of Faith, and Sunshine Christmas ( 1977 ), starring Cliff DeYoung and the closing sunset scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 ), were made in and around Claude.

The area around Blackheath contains some of the most spectacular views in the Blue Mountains, including those over the Grose Valley from Evans Lookout and Govetts Leap in the east, and the lesser-known vista of the Megalong Valley from Hargraves Lookout in the west, past the tiny hamlet of Shipley.

Frieda Carter set out to develop the property into one big rock garden, taking string and marking a trail that wound its way around the giant rock formations, ending up at Lover's Leap.

Holly was depicted in the Quantum Leap episode entitled " How the Tess Was Won " although his identity isn't revealed until the very end of the episode.

Cannibalism was proven to have occurred in China during the Great Leap Forward, when rural China was hit hard by drought and famine.

The economic and social plan known as the Great Leap Forward resulted in an estimated 45 million deaths.

* Baum, Richard D. "' Red and Expert ': The Politico-Ideological Foundations of China's Great Leap Forward ," Asian Survey, Vol.

Deng was instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s.

Some examples of democide cited by Rummel include the Great Purges carried out by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, the deaths from the colonial policy in the Congo Free State, and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, which resulted in a famine killing millions of people.

For instance, Rummel only recently classified Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward as democide.

The transition to behavioral modernity has been characterized as a " Great Leap Forward ", or as the " Upper Palaeolithic Revolution ", because of the sudden appearance of distinctive signs of modern behavior in the archaeological record.

Accordingly, anyone born on a Leap Day legally turns 21 on February 28th, twenty-one years later.

In Greece it is considered unlucky to marry on Leap Day.

A Utah woman gave birth on a third consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set in the 1960s.

The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.

" What To Do about Greenhouse Warming: Look Before You Leap ", Cosmos, Volume 5, No. 2, Summer 1992.

For many geocachers, Leap Day offers a unique opportunity to find a geocache.

This was more than double the 36, 696 accounts that logged a cache on Leap Day 2008.

Leap seconds are nowadays added to or subtracted from UTC to keep it within 0. 9 seconds of UT1.

In 1090 he reportedly threw a treacherous burgher named Conan Pilatus from the tower of Rouen ; the tower was known from then on as " Conan's Leap.

* Earliest day on which Saturday of Souls can fall, while February 27 ( or 28 during Leap Year ) is the latest ; observed 57 days before Easter.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

However, the Great Leap Forward led to a Korean imitation in 1958-1960 known as the Chollima ( Flying Horse ) Campaign.