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Feb·ru·ar·y
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alamo
Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Tex.: scene of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops (1836) -
aquarius
Aquarius is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a person pouring water. People who are born approximately between 20th January and 18th February come under this sign. -
bissextus
February 29th: the extra day added to the Julian calendar every fourth year (except those evenly divisible by 400, a rule introduced by the Gregorian calendar) to compensate for the approximately six hours a year by which the common year of 365 days falls short of the solar year. -
candlemas
Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days -
equation of time
the difference between apparent solar time and mean solar time, being at a maximum in February (over 14 minutes) and November (over 16 minutes) -
february revolution
Russian Revolution (def 1).