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Leap and Day
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.
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.
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 ).
The movie was released on Leap Year Day 2000.
" Annie attributes her lasting youthfulness to her Leap Day, February 29, birthday, and so only ages one year in appearance for every four years that pass.
He has also directed two episodes of 30 Rock (" Retreat to Move Forward " and " Leap Day ") and six episodes of Showtime's Nurse Jackie.
During his Hollywood career and in his 1984 autobiography, Negulesco claimed to have been born on 29 February 1900 ; he was apparently motivated to make this statement because birthdays on Leap Year Day are comparatively rare.
Freberg's record was on the Hot 100 only the week of Leap Day 1960, at # 99, about three and half months after Tommy Facenda's multi-versioned " High School U. S. A ." peaked at # 28.
( See also: Leap year for discussion of a similar tradition of " allowing " women to propose marriage on February 29, which has also become unofficially known as Sadie Hawkins Day.
Nuclear enrichment was presumably resumed following the collapse of the Leap Day Deal.
In the television show 30 Rock Liz Lemon says she took part in Rumspringa because her town had been founded by the Amish in the episode Leap Day.
Mitchell was born on Leap Day, 1920 in Sacramento, California.
Radames married Marsha Mann on Leap Year Day in 1984, 6000 feet above the Mojave Desert-exchanging rings and vows in front of a judge and then jumping out of the plane on their first sky dive-calling the event " A Leap of Faith ".
He appeared as Leap Day William, the embodiment of the fictional Leap Day national holiday, in the " Leap Day " episode of the sixth season of NBC's 30 Rock.

Leap and February
* 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.
In February 1988 based on this celebration and because no other place in the world regularly sponsors such an event, the town ’ s Chamber of Commerce voted to sponsor Ms Brown ’ s idea of the festival and subsequently declared Anthony Texas and New Mexico to be the Leap Year Capital of the World.
Leap years are given two letters, the first indicating the dominical letter for January 1-February 28 ( or February 24, see below ), the second indicating the dominical letter for the rest of the year.

Leap and 29
The year starts on 29 August in the Julian Calendar or on the 30th in the year before ( Julian ) Leap Years.
Mike Post ( born Leland Michael Postil, September 29, 1944, Berkeley, California ) is an American multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning composer best known for his TV theme songs for such primetime series as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, L. A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P. I.

Leap and Every
* Leap of logic: Every colour must appear at least twice around the circle.

Leap and four
* Janeen Rae Heller played the saw in four television guest appearances: The Tracey Ullman Show ( 1989 ), Quantum Leap ( 1990 ), and Home Improvement ( 1992 and 1999 ).
Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.
Leap Castle is a castle in County Offaly, Ireland, about four miles north of the town of Roscrea on the R421.

Leap and years
Under the leadership of Minister of National Defense Lin Biao, large investments were made in naval construction during the frugal years immediately after the Great Leap Forward.
The years of the Great Leap Forward in fact saw economic regression, with 1958 through 1961 being the only years between 1953 and 1983 in which China's economy saw negative growth.
Mao's theories on mass collectivization became the basis of the Great Leap Forward, a national economic plan that began in 1958 which caused a man-made famine across the country that lasted for several years.
Wei lived in remote rural areas in Northern China and was able to speak with peasant farmers about the widespread famines that had occurred a few years before, during the Great Leap Forward.
Leap years have two Dominical Letters, the second of which is the letter of the cycle preceding the first ; the second letter describes the portion of the year after the leap day.
Li ( 2008 ) argues that based on the average death rate over the three years of the Great Leap Forward, there were several million fewer lives lost during this period than would have been the case under normal mortality conditions before 1949.
He married again in the late 1970s to Vivian Sanchez, with whom he traveled on the road performing Lover's Leap for two years, and with whom he had one child, Becca.
She sees a glimmer of opportunity at Mao's low point-2 years after the launch of the Great Leap Forward which proved so disastrous.

Leap and with
*" Leap In and Try Things "-Interview with Brian Kernighan – on " Harmony at Work Blog ", October 2009.
In collaboration with Peikoff, David Harriman has developed a theory of scientific induction based upon Rand's theory of concepts in The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics ( 2010 ).
Growth in telecommunications halted with the general economic collapse after the Great Leap Forward ( 1958 – 60 ) but revived in the 1960s after the telephone network was expanded and improved equipment was introduced, including imports of Western plants and equipment.
The title of Series V was revealed to be Enterprise, with Scott Bakula, of Quantum Leap fame, playing Captain Jeffrey Archer, a name that was quickly changed to Jonathan Archer due to fan feedback.
The following year, she performed " Hundreds of Tears ," which was included in the Point Break soundtrack, and sang a duet with Kenny Loggins on the track " I Would Do Anything ", from his album Leap of Faith.
Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.
They reason that the Cultural Revolution happened due to a series of complex factors: China's relationship with the global Communist movement, geopolitical concerns, the ideological rift between China and the Soviet Union, and the failures of the Great Leap Forward.
The Shehy Mountains are on the border with Kerry and may be accessed from the area known as Priests Leap, near the village of Coomhola.
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.
For example, in Quantum Leap: The Novel ( a. k. a. Carny Knowledge ), Sam is depicted as exchanging bodies with subjects he leaps into, rather than being surrounded by the person's aura as explained on the show.
* It, a ghost associated with Leap Castle
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.
Many of the stories although have true origins are only folklore and give many of the towns attractions their names, such as Maggie's Leap being named after a local girl called Maggie, who leapt over the impressive chasm to her death while fleeing soldiers with a basket of eggs.
On the island, there are two marinas, various athletic and recreational facilities, several public beaches, a convenience store, an ice cream stand, a restaurant with a bar, known as the Frye's Leap Cafe, and a golf club with a lounge that is open to the public.
He was succeeded to this post by Liu Shaoqi, who along with Premier Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, took on a more active role in government to curb the excesses of the Great Leap Forward and restore Soviet-based centrally planned economy.
Yves Klein had been a precursor of performance art with the conceptual pieces of Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle ( Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility ) 1959 – 62, and works like the photomontage, Saut dans le vide ( Leap into the Void ).
At the time of the Great Leap Forward, the government increased its insistence on the use of socialist realism and combined with it so-called revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism.
** In the mid-1950s, a second land reform during the Great Leap Forward compelled individual farmers to join collectives, which, in turn, were grouped into People's communes with centrally controlled property rights and an egalitarian principle of distribution.
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.
Other regions in California with some plantings of Malbec include Livermore Valley, Atlas Peak, Carmel Valley, Los Carneros, Ramona Valley, Central Coast, Red Hills Lake County, Chalk Hill, Clear Lake, Diamond Mountain District, Russian River Valley, Dry Creek Valley, Rutherford, El Dorado, San Lucas, Santa Clara Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Lucia Highlands, Santa Maria Valley, Santa Ynez Valley, Howell Mountain, Sierra Foothills, Knights Valley, Spring Mountain District, St. Helena, Lodi, Stags Leap District, Madera, Suisun Valley, Temecula Valley, Monterey, Mount Veeder, North Coast, Oak Knoll District,
The campaign also coincided with and was partially based on Mao's First Five-Year Plan and the Great Leap Forward.

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