February 29, or How February 29 Appeared and Marry Anyway
Zodiac Sign Pisces
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Pisces, February 29. It is hard to disagree with the fact that those born on this day are much younger than those who were born on any other day of the year.
Indeed, if we determine our age by counting our birthdays, then it turns out that people of this day are exactly four times younger than their peers - after all, February 29 is not every year. Therefore, we can say that those born on this day are forever young.
Pisces, born on February 29 are charming, pleasant and diplomatic.
Thanks to your attractiveness, you don't lack friends.
Great social skills and smooth demeanor allow you to connect with a wide variety of people.
You have a subtle quality that makes you seem less cheerful than you really are, and as a result, you are often misunderstood.
While you may be viewed as a frivolous person by some, you are actually surprisingly ambitious and unafraid to use the subtle power of persuasion to win the consent of others.
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Pisces men born on February 29: Ja Rule, Tony Robbins, Cheb Khaled.
- can be proud of the following traits:
- generous,
- intuitive,
- sacrificial,
- romantic.
- Pisces men are idealists and dreamers, they are light and comfortable people in communication.
- Politeness and tact do not allow men of this sign to show open aggression, which is often their problem.
- Pisces men fall in love easily and find it difficult to build strong harmonious relationships.
- The main problems in love are associated with striving for an unattainable ideal and building relationships with those who have a much brighter temperament.
Pisces women born on February 29: Lena Gercke, Kiyoe Yoshioka, Michèle Morgan.
- characterized by such facets of temperament:
- intelligent,
- attentive,
- compassionate.
- Pisces women are charming, delicate and mysterious young ladies who attract men with their vulnerability and defenselessness.
- Their femininity and weakness are their main trump cards, creating an atmosphere of mystery around them.
- Her location is not easy to achieve, and it is her reason that sometimes makes her not go on about emotions.
- The strongest traits of Pisces women are femininity and the ability to properly manage their trademark features - fragility and softness.
History of February 29
Astronomers found out: the year lasts 365 days and 6 hours. These 6 hours are usually not taken into account, therefore, a residue of a quarter of a day is obtained annually. Over time, this would lead to a significant deviation! To avoid this, scientist Sozigen proposed to consider every first three years simple, lasting for 365 days, and adding in February every fourth year the accumulated difference of one day: then February will have 29 days and a year 366 days. And to call such a year a “leap year”.
This chronology has spread among all the peoples that were part of the Roman Empire, and received the name of the Julian system.
Holidays
International Day of Rare Diseases
Despite the different symptoms and consequences of rare diseases, the problems of most patients in whom they are observed are similar. These are inaccessibility of correct diagnosis, delay in diagnosis, lack of quality information, and often scientific knowledge about the disease, difficult socialization conditions, lack of quality medical care and difficulties in receiving treatment and care.
St. Oswald's Day
February 29 is celebrated by the Catholic Church as a St. Oswald's Day, in which, according to Old English law, any woman could demand from a man that he become her husband and a man, under pain of a large fine, had no right to refuse her.
Cassian Day
In the Orthodox calendar, this last winter day is dedicated to the memory of St. John Cassian the Roman.
Going out of the hut before lunch was considered to be a bad omen this day - Cassian’s eye was bad, and the saint himself was known as a vindictive man.
In folks, they simply call him Cassian, adding nicknames that are offensive, but by no means senseless: stingy, cool, vindictive, envious, self-interested, unmerciful, ill-wisher. Noting with bitterness and fear: “Cassian will take a look at something - it will wither, the brute will die, and the person will dry.”
Keeping away from sin, the cautious villagers tried not to start any work on this February day and not to leave the house.
They say that Cassian is angry at the whole world that he is rarely honored, noting only once every four years Cassian's name day, and even with caution, considering this day to be the most terrible of the year.
“Cassian, the envious, is angry at the peasants, that's why the breed is thin in a leap year.”
After all, Cassian, according to the old men, owned all the winds that he held on twenty chains, behind twenty iron doors, and being angry could pull them down to the ground, sending a heavy sea to people and cattle.
In order to somehow appease the intractable saint, the most circumspect hosts remembered him on three Thursdays of the year, setting a candle and praying at the Cassians in the seventies, shrove and holy weeks. Without forgetting to “treat themselves with a drink and enjoy the song.” After all, in Russia from immemorial times it was customary to drink and sing both in grief and in joy.
Also on February 29...
1692 - this day is considered to be the beginning of a bloody and reckless flash of hunting for the Salem witches. In the 17th century, the Puritans were convinced that disease and death could be sent with the help of witchcraft. To cure a disease, one had to catch the guilty witch or witches and exterminate them. Under the pressure of Rev. Parris, the girls, who claimed that they were tortured by evil spirits, began to testify. Women accused by girls were arrested and examined for “witch marks” on their bodies.
1880 - construction of the first St. Gotthard tunnel connecting Switzerland and Italy was completed. It was an event that literally shook Europe at that time. The longest tunnel in the world, which was fifteen kilometers in length, was blown by newspapers all over the continent.
1879 - the beginning of the story. The Hillmon Case - a vivid example of American jurisprudence, as a waitress a quarter of a century, had litigated with three major insurance companies. Insurers resorted to any tricks - just not to pay a large sum due to the widow. As a result of 6 trials and 2 cases before the Supreme Court, American justice was enriched with a number of precedents, several common nouns, and Hillmon Exception.
1893 - "The Case of the Fur Seals". With the emergence of filibusters from America and Canada in the Bering Sea at the end of the 19th century, the rapid destruction of fur seals began. Poachers rushed to the rookery seals.The first hunting vessels were spotted as early as 1880, there were four in all. By 1892 the number of schooners increased to 122, and about 80 thousand animals were exterminated by poachers.
1904 - Shares of the ruined French company and the right to build the Panama Canal were acquired by the United States for $ 40 million. The then US President Theodore Roosevelt, realizing the importance of the issue, became the driving force behind the construction of the channel. In Washington, on the initiative of Roosevelt, a special commission of seven people was set up to speed up the construction of the Panama Canal.
1916 - Dinah Shore was born in Winchester, Tennessee - American actress and singer.
1920 - Michelle Morgan was born (d. 12/20/2016) - French actress.
1940 - at the ceremony of the Oscar film award, 8 statuettes at once received the film Gone with the Wind.
1960 - a large earthquake destroys the Moroccan city of Agadir, kills more than 15 thousand people.
1964 - Antonella Ponziani was born in Rome - Italian actress.
1972 - Agne Dunklodite was born in Vilnius - Lithuanian actress, director.
2012 - a visa-free regime between Georgia and Russia is announced.
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