The Moose 95.1 FM - Bozeman's Best Rock » leap day http://mooseradio.com Thu, 23 May 2013 08:01:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Things You Might Not Know About Leap Day http://mooseradio.com/leap-day-facts/ http://mooseradio.com/leap-day-facts/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:59:08 +0000 Shauna Wright http://thefw.com/?p=104571 We have Feb. 29th — otherwise known as Leap Day — every four years to make up for the fact that the Earth doesn’t circle the sun in exactly 365 days. Without that occasional extra day thrown in, our entire calendar and its corresponding seasons would eventually be way off and we’d be celebrating Christmas during bikini weather.

But it isn’t just a scientific thing. There’s a lot of lore behind it, and it’s observed and celebrated in a variety of ways.

]]> http://mooseradio.com/leap-day-facts/feed/ 0 danmoyle, Flickr Happy Leap Day! Watch Sweet Videos of Women Proposing to Men http://mooseradio.com/women-proposing-to-men/ http://mooseradio.com/women-proposing-to-men/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:27:53 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=104537 According to an old Irish legend, St. Patrick and St. Bridget struck a deal in which women would be permitted to propose to men every four years on Leap Day. That tradition continues on YouTube. 

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