2007-07-27 06:30:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The Frog God commanded it and if we stop having it, our bodies will erupt in big boils with green puss dripping out of them.
Plus we have an overwhelming urge to eat flies and say RIB-BET, RIB-BET.
2007-07-27 06:40:02 · answer #1 · answered by malcolm g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One year is 365 days is the time it takes the earth to go around the sun .
However it was found that the earth went around the sun in 365 days and 6 hours so every four years wee need to add an extra day. This will be OK for the rest of our lives but there is a rule that at the end of some century's a further adjustment has to be made and I suspect that in that year there is no leap year. There is another rule and I can not remember what it is because the year 2000 was a leap year. These various rules help us and our calenders to prevent a slip in the seasons. I am truly a mine of useless information
2007-07-27 13:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our calendar is called the Gregorian calendar. It was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named in 1582.
The old Julian Calendar year was slightly too long, (ie) it lasted more than one year. So the new calendar dealt with these problems by dropping a certain number of days to bring the calendar back into synchronization with the seasons, and then removing one day in three calendar years and adding one day in the 4th year. It will all have to be changed again in a few hundred years.
At least that's what I was taught.
2007-07-27 13:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by Knight Crusader 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists..
2007-07-27 13:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋