Leap year

• Today is a leap day, a calendar oddity that helps align our timekeeping with the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Being 1948, the article was titled: SPINSTERS HOLIDAY: The she-wolves of Aurora, Ill. celebrate Leap Year by running officials out and bachelors in.
(Huffington Post)
• GARNET VALLEY, Pa. - February 29, 2012 (WPVI) -- As most of you know, 2012 is leap year which means we are enjoying an extra day in February.
(Abc Local Web)
• Forget 365 days, instead, 2012 will be packed with 366 days. Its Leap Year and that means the month of February is 29 days, instead of 28, and 2012 is one day longer.
(msnbc.com)
• In 1908 a 16-year-old boy lamented to The Post that he had never had a birthday. "You see, I was born on the 29th of February, 1892, a leap year," he explained.
(Washington Post)
• Thursday saw the birth of thousands of babies who will have to wait until 2016 to celebrate their first birthday. But giving birth to a leap-year baby can be full of mixed emotions.
(msnbc.com)
• Hiscox, the first insurer in the U.S. to offer small business insurance direct, online and in real time, today announced it has renewed Leap Year (http://www.hulu.
(Monsters and Critics)
• Leap year birthday people have to be the luckiest people in the world. First, they will remain infinitely younger than the rest of us, as their official birthday only rolls around every four years. And then there's all the free stuff.
(San Francisco Gate)
• Its leap day, a once-every-four-years bonus you can thank Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII for. We add a day at the end of February every four years because it takes the Earth about 365.242 days to make a full orbit around the sun.
(CNN (blog))
• Google Inc. celebrated the leap year and composer Giochino Rossinis 220 th birthday with a two for one Google Doodle. The Doodle features frogs performing Rossinis opera The Barber of Seville.
(Boston Globe)