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A hundred years hence. A transcreation of the poem 1400 Sal (The year 1400) from the collection Chitra by Rabindranath Tagore. It was written on the 2nd of Falgun (first month of spring), 1302 (1895-96), of the Bengali calendar. Translated by Kumud Biswas. © by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes.
Today is February 29th, a leap day, which marks the bicentennial of the first leap-year Edgar Allan Poe ever experienced during his lifetime. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase “leap-year” has been used since 1387, and is probably of older formation than that. Thus, the phrase “leap-year” would have been around ...
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Year 1400 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar . Events [ edit ]
Leap Year Poem. Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that has twenty-eight days clear. And twenty-nine in each leap year. This traditional English mnemonic rhyme, of which many variants are commonly used in English-speaking countries, has a long history and was first ...
1400. 1400 ( MCD ) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1400th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 400th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 14th century, and the 1st year of the 1400s decade. As of the start of 1400, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the ...
LEAP YEAR BY JEFF DOLVEN Promise and fulfillment are real historical events. —Erich Auerbach, “Figura.”1 A chimney, breathing a little smoke. The sun, I can’t see making a bit of pink I can’t quite see in the blue. The pink of five tulips at five p.m. on the day before March first. The green of the tulip stems and leaves
Jul 15, 2001 · in the rustling of your leaves. a hundred years from today. 2 Phalgun 1302 (13 February 1896) From Chitra (1896) Translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. To mark the year 1400 of the Bengali calendar, this translation was read out by the translator at an event in 1993 jointly organized by the Nehru Centre of the High Commission of India in London ...
