How many days comprise a leap year?

There are four intercalary days in a regular year, and five in a leap year.

It is also a leap year starting on Saturday, in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.

China s Great Leap Backward

SHANGHAI Back in 1958, the year of China s ill fated Great Leap Forward, Chairman Mao had big plans for the steel industry.

Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

Novelty a leap of creativity

The ECB s Leap into the Unknown

Another Great Leap Forward for Development

So it s a leap of imagination.

The warrant was no leap forward.

But then Geithner takes a leap.

Thus the first day of the Ethiopian year, 1 Mäskäräm, for years between 1901 and 2099 (inclusive), is usually 11 September (Gregorian), but falls on 12 September in years before the Gregorian leap year.

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

The Arab Spring s Backward Leap for Women

Steve Truglia A leap from the edge of space

(Mike Davis, Great Leap ForwardThe largest famine of the 20th century, and almost certainly of all time, was the 1958 61 Great Leap Forward famine in China.

The Great Leap Forward reversed the downward trend in mortality that had occurred since 1950, though even during the Leap, mortality may not have reached pre 1949 levels.

Like religion, the nation state myth requires a leap of faith.

All of these entities would be taking a substantial leap of faith.

The knight is the only piece that can leap over other pieces.

Impact on economy During the Great Leap, the Chinese economy initially grew.

The engine was officially launched as LEAP X on 13 July 2008.

She also appeared in the Quantum Leap episode The Play's The Thing .

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

And we must make that conceptual leap in our planning and actions.

In recent years, there has been a substantial rise in the percentage of pupils in the Bedouin sector taking matriculations exams (up from 19.7 in the year 1998 to 53.8 in the year 2002), as well as a huge leap in the percentage of pupils entitled to a matriculation certificate (from 15.5 in the year 1998 to 42.8 in the year 2002).

Yet, once again, the Bush administration is preparing to leap into the unknown.

The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.

Deaths by violence Not all deaths during the Great Leap were from starvation.

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

For those countries that have already made the leap, the choices are more difficult.

Mao unveiled the Great Leap Forward at a meeting in January 1958 in Nanjing.

The Declaration of Commitment adopted in 2001 was a brave and great leap forward.

That constitutes an important leap forward in supporting the implementation of the Hyogo Framework.

Like the Julian calendar, the sixth epagomenal day which in essence is a leap day is added every four years without exception on 29 August of the Julian calendar, six months before the Julian leap day.

For starters, it tests whether the 43 year old Non Proliferation Treaty is still viable.

All non expendable property is charged against current year expenditure at the time of acquisition.

Yet despite the rollback of the state, Africa has not made the leap to prosperity.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp he shall leap from Bashan.

No, what I'm suggesting is that we should leap off, we should increase our velocity so it's high, and we should leap off one side and go the other of course, having calculated our differential equation very carefully.

It is indeed discouraging that we find ourselves at the same place year after year that is to say, in non agreement on an agenda.

What might look like a small step for mankind is certainly a giant leap for Europe.

For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.