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by Happy birthday leap year babies! Like Tillie Iverson, who is observing her 24th birthday today at the age of 96, you can celebrate today.
If it were up to Dick Henry, a physics professor, however, those born on February 29th would have birthdays just like everyone else. Henry wants us to abandon the Gregorian calendar, including its confusing use of leap years. "There are enormous economic advantages to the proposed calendar," he writes on his website. "These benefits come because the new calendar is identical every year... except that, every five or six years, there is a one-week long 'Mini-Month,' called 'Newton,' between June and July. 'Newton Week' brings the calendar into sync with the seasonal change as the Earth circles the Sun."
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So would that make those people born in the proposed mini-month "Newtonians"? I kind of like it.
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Being a Leap Year baby myself! by smcbride :: NR6 :: on 29 February 2008
I must say, sometimes it is very sad to get a year older, and only have a birthday ever four years, Not! LOL! I celebrate on the Feb. 28th and March 1st. on the off years, please send gifts to smcbride, cash accepted if you are to lazy to shop.