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a course of travel or passage, especially a long journey by water to a distant place.

a passage through air or space, as a flight in an airplane or space vehicle.

a journey or expedition from one place to another by land.

Often voyages. journeys or travels as the subject of a written account, or the account itself: the voyages of Marco Polo.

Obsolete . an enterprise or undertaking.

to make or take a voyage; travel; journey.

to traverse by a voyage: to voyage the seven seas.

Origin of voyage

Synonym study for voyage, other words for voyage, other words from voyage.

  • voy·ag·er, noun
  • outvoyage, verb (used with object), out·voy·aged, out·voy·ag·ing.
  • re·voy·age, noun, verb, re·voy·aged, re·voy·ag·ing.
  • un·voy·ag·ing, adjective

Words that may be confused with voyage

  • voyager , voyageur

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How to use voyage in a sentence

The preserve is such hardy stuff, in fact, that Christopher Columbus packed it alongside salt cod and hardtack on his transatlantic voyages.

Other data do suggest that ancient humans could have deliberately made the voyage to the Ryukyu Islands.

It is unlikely that ancient mariners would have set out on an ocean voyage with a major storm on the horizon, say paleoanthropologist Yousuke Kaifu of the University of Tokyo and colleagues.

Days after the Diamond Princess evacuation, a ship from the same company, the Grand Princess, set sail from San Francisco on another ill-fated voyage .

A statue of its namesake explorer stands in the lobby, near a chart of Cook’s voyages.

It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.

People might be surprised that during that period “Maiden voyage ,” one of your most well-loved standards, began as a TV jingle.

It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.

The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage .

The voyage is a new one, certainly for Tambor, but also for Hollywood, in many ways.

Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.

Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.

I shipped for a voyage to Japan and China, and spent several more years trying to penetrate the forbidden fastnesses of Tibet.

The Swedish boatswain consoled him, and he modified his opinions as the voyage went on.

Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.

British Dictionary definitions for voyage

/ ( ˈvɔɪɪdʒ ) /

a journey, travel, or passage, esp one to a distant land or by sea or air

obsolete an ambitious project

to travel over or traverse (something) : we will voyage to Africa

Derived forms of voyage

  • voyager , noun

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Other Idioms and Phrases with voyage

see maiden voyage.

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voy•age

A journey is the process of travelling from one place to another by land, air, or sea.

A trip is the process of travelling from one place to another, staying there, usually for a short time, and coming back again.

A voyage is a long journey from one place to another in a ship or spacecraft.

An excursion is a short trip made either as a tourist or in order to do a particular thing.

You make or go on a journey.

You take or go on a trip.

You make a voyage.

You go on an excursion.

Be Careful! Don't use 'do' with any of these words. Don't say, for example, ' We did a bus trip '.

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Definitions for voyage ˈvɔɪ ɪdʒ voy·age, this dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word voyage ., princeton's wordnet rate this definition: 2.7 / 3 votes.

ocean trip, voyage noun

an act of traveling by water

  • voyage verb

a journey to some distant place

voyage, sail, navigate verb

travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

"The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

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voyage noun

A long journey; especially by ship.

To go on a long journey.

Etymology: viage, from viage, from voiage, from viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern voyage.

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A voyage refers to a long journey involving travel by sea or in space. It can also potentially refer to an airplane journey.

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Voyage noun

formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country

the act or practice of traveling

course; way

Voyage verb

to take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water

to travel; to pass over; to traverse

Etymology: [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage, viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L. viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to E. way. See Way, n., and cf. Convey, Deviate, Devious, Envoy, Trivial, Viaduct, Viaticum.]

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Voyage is a 1996 hard science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter. The book depicts a manned mission to Mars as it might have been in another timeline, one where John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963. Voyage won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997. It has since been made into a radio serial for BBC Radio 4.

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voi′āj, n. passage by water: ( Shak. ) an enterprise.— v.i. to make a voyage, or to pass by water.— v.t. to traverse, pass over.— adj. Voy′age-able , navigable.— n. Voy′ager , one who voyages.— n.pl. Voyageurs (vwo-ya-zher′), name given in Canada to the men who in their bark canoes kept up communication between the stations, and effected transportation of men and supplies, in the North-west and Hudson's Bay territory. [Fr.,—L. viaticum , travelling-money—L. via , a way.]

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A journey by sea. It usually includes the outward and homeward trips, which are called passages.

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The numerical value of voyage in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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The numerical value of voyage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Christina Baldwin :

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

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It is from this area that Stone Age humans departed by boat to cross Island South Asia to reach the mainland of Papua and Australia( the first successful major maritime voyage ), stone Age humans were Stone Age humans, and now we know( Stone Age humans) had advanced medical knowledge.

Hendrik Willem van Loon :

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership – who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage , and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Jon Rappoport :

There is an irreducible thing. It's called freedom. It is native to every individual. Sometimes it rears its head in the middle of the night, and the dreamer awakes. And he asks himself: what is my freedom for? And then he begins a voyage that no device can record, measure, or analyze. If he pursues it long enough, it takes him out of the labyrinth.

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How everything became a ‘psyop’ for conservative media

It’s not just taylor swift. right-wing pundits are branding everything from climate change to the hunter biden case a ‘psyop,’ though the conspiracy-tinged phrase is losing grip on an actual definition.

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Lately, it’s become popular in conservative media circles to brand certain things as a psychological operation, or “psyop.”

Climate change, for example. Or covid. Or the media coverage of Donald Trump . Or even the prosecution of Hunter Biden.

Technically, “psyop” is a U.S. military term, referring to various kinds of campaigns to get inside the heads of adversaries. In a classic psychological operation during the Vietnam War, the U.S. government blasted messages over loudspeakers that were meant to urge Viet Cong soldiers to defect. Ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was millions of leaflets dropped on cities to undermine support for then-President Saddam Hussein. “Who needs you more? Your family or the regime?” one flier asked.

But conservative media personalities have begun using the term in vaguer and wilder ways, seemingly to allege government conspiracies targeted at American citizens — something that would be illegal, even if any of these theories were remotely plausible.

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Actual experts in real-life psyops are unconvinced by this latest wave of claims.

“Most people realize it’s just baloney,” said Herbert A. Friedman, a retired sergeant major who worked in psychological operations for the Army.

Fox News host Jesse Watters is perhaps the most influential superspreader of the term. In January, Watters used a just-asking-questions formula to suggest that Taylor Swift is a psyop asset of the Defense Department. How so? He didn’t exactly connect the dots for viewers, but he did note that Swift, who endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, had urged her fans to vote.

The Pentagon shot it down with a punny statement: “As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”

How the MAGA-fed Taylor Swift conspiracy theories caught fire

Watters acknowledged that his show “obviously has no evidence” for the claim, but he tied it tangentially to a comment made at a 2019 NATO cybersecurity conference, where a speaker mentioned Swift’s social media influence. However, the speaker never claimed that the pop star was a government asset, and the event was not held by the U.S. government.

On other occasions, Watters has seemed to repurpose the word into a fancy way to call something a myth or a falsehood or simply a sinister PR campaign he happens to disagree with. Last summer, he claimed that climate change is “a psyop against the American people by big business and the Democratic Party to worry you into giving you more of their money,” and separately referred to a “decades-long liberal media social psyop that marriage is a broken and dated institution.”

In November, though, it was an even murkier argument about how “control freaks” in the FBI and liberal-leaning Twitter employees constituted an anti-Trump psyop of some kind — though he not only presented no evidence, but he also failed to explain what any of that meant.

Watters’s Fox News colleague Greg Gutfeld has also expressed concern about psyops. In November, he asked panelists on his nightly show whether media coverage of Trump’s potential second term is a “psyop,” though he acknowledged, “I hate using that word, because it puts you in a conspiracy realm.” Nonetheless, a month later, he declared on the panel show “The Five” that social media is a “psyop.”

In appearances in late December, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy spoke of both “the trans psyop” and “the covid psyop” but without any context or explanation of what these things are supposed to mean.

The fact that none of these personalities seems particularly committed to any firm definition of the word may be the point.

“It has connotations of malign influence, and so it’s a scary word they can use to negatively brand the things they want to negatively brand,” said Todd C. Helmus, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND.

The term is also popular on two conservative cable-news channels that have tried to outflank Fox. Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt recently referred to the federal indictments against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Hunter Biden and a federal investigation into Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) as a “psyop” to “dupe everybody” into thinking that the criminal charges against Trump are “somehow normal and credible and not strange.” In late January, a host on One America News said that sexually explicit artificial-intelligence-generated images of Swift that circulated online are “another psyop.” A few days earlier, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who hosts a show on Salem Radio, said he doesn’t really watch movies “because they’re all CIA psychological operation programming.”

Mike Rothschild, an expert in conspiracy theories who wrote a book on QAnon, sees a profit motive in conservative media’s use of the term, which he said is on the rise.

“There’s a desperate need to get people churning through content and terrified of things they don’t understand or don’t know much about it,” he said.

The cynical genius of calling something a “psyop” is that such accusations “don’t really need to have any evidence, because there’s not going to be any evidence: It’s a secret operation.”

A poll released by Monmouth University last week suggests that at least one so-called “psyop” claim is catching on, with 18 percent of Americans saying that they believe in the existence of “a covert government effort for Taylor Swift to help Joe Biden win the presidential election.”

Helmus said he expects the term to continue being used widely in conservative media, even though it does not align with the actual meaning of the term.

“The problem with these conspiracy theories is that they sound crazy to begin with, but they gain legs, and people will continue with them, and there will be people that believe it because there are always believers for these conspiracy theories.”

But, he added: “It would be good for Taylor Swift, and for truth in general, if they died out.”

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The History of Self-Immolation as Political Protest

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc is doused with gasoline during a protest demonstration in Saigon, on June 11, 1963.

A U.S. airman died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25 in order to protest what he called a “genocide” of Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war. Aaron Bushnell’s action is part of a long and controversial history of self-immolation as political protest.

In the past, self-immolation has been used as an extreme form of protest against political leaders in Tunisia during the Arab Spring, the Vietnam War, and climate change. And Bushnell isn’t the first to self-immolate in protest of the Israel-Hamas war. In December, an unidentified individual self-immolated outside of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, in what police described as “likely an extreme act of political protest.” 

Police take security measures and investigate the crime scene after 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the US Air Force, set himself on fire Sunday outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.

“It's an act of despair,” says Ralph Young, a history professor at Temple University. “You feel that there's nothing that you can do, or that people are willing to do, so this is the ultimate sacrifice—yourself.” 

Read More: U.S. Serviceman Dies After Setting Self on Fire Outside Israeli Embassy to Protest War in Gaza

The practice of self-immolation dates back centuries, according to ancient Hindu tales of Sati, the wife of a Hindu god who got married without her father’s approval. Some retellings of her life say that Sati burned herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre, and are used as justification for the practice of ritual suicide that has long been banned in India. Self-immolation was also seen as a sacrificial act committed by Christian devotees who chose to be burned alive when they were being persecuted for their religion by Roman emperor Diocletian ​​around 300 A.D.

One of the first and most well known acts of self-immolation in modern history was conducted by Thich Quang Duc during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese monk set himself on fire in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government backed by the U.S. Several other monks followed his example. 

Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation became one of the most enduring and haunting images of the war. “The average American would have said, ‘Well, we're supporting democracy, and fighting against communism,’ and this image of this monk choosing this terrible way to die to protest against the American government, was really shocking,” says Michael Biggs, associate professor of sociology at Oxford University. 

Read More: Malcolm Browne: The Story Behind The Burning Monk

Some people in the U.S. also self-immolated as a means of protest during the Vietnam War, including a Quaker named Norman Morrison who set himself on fire outside the Pentagon while clinging to his child. 

The tactic has not only been used to protest wars. In India in the 1960s, the practice was used in protest of the implementation of Hindi as a national language. In 2009, a Tibetan monk self-immolated in protest of Chinese rule in Tibet, in an incident that sparked mass protests in Western China. Over 100 monks set themselves on fire over several years. 

More recently, the tactic has been used by climate activists to protest climate change. In 2018, David Buckel, a retired American lawyer, set himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. In 2022, climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce set himself on fire at the plaza in front of the Supreme Court. “This act is not suicide,” Kritee Kanko, a climate scientest and friend of Bruce wrote on Twitter following the act. “This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to [the] climate crisis.”

A vigil to honor Wynn Alan Bruce is held in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2022.

”It's the most violent nonviolent type of action. People are killing themselves in an explicitly gruesome way,” says Jack Downey, a professor at the University of Rochester whose research focuses on contemporary justice movements. “They're choosing to end their own life as a public statement. The statement is meant to be shocking, and is meant to articulate their level of grievance.”

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental-health crisis or contemplating suicide, call or text 988. In emergencies, call 911, or seek care from a local hospital or mental health provider.

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Michigan voters are voting uncommitted in the Feb. 27 primary in order to protest Biden's stance on the war in Gaza.

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The 2024 presidential election seems likely to come down to a contest between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but even though that outcome seems clear, primaries are still happening in both major parties. On Feb. 27, 2024, the Michigan primary is set to take place, and it features a unique wrinkle on the Democratic side.

While Biden may be the overwhelming frontrunner to become the Democratic nominee, some Michigan voters are planning to vote "Uncommitted" in the primary. Given that plan, many want to better understand what it means to vote uncommitted, and why these voters plan to do it.

What does voting uncommitted mean?

Voting uncommitted can only happen in a primary. It means that a voter is voting for a party, but is not committed to any individual candidate on the ballot. Instead, they cast a vote for "Uncommitted." If enough voters do this in a given state, then they might elect an uncommitted delegate who can attend the party's nominating convention without being pledged to any specific candidate. This delegate can then use their own discretion to back who they would prefer.

In the case of Michigan, it seems unlikely, though not impossible, that enough voters will vote "Uncommitted" to elect any uncommitted delegates. In this case, the uncommitted vote is designed more to send a message to the president.

In this case, these voters are voting uncommitted to signal to Biden that they are not pleased with his stance on the war happening in Gaza.

While much of the western world has called for a ceasefire, Biden has remained more closely aligned with Israel, and has refused to call for a total ceasefire in spite of the massive loss of Palestinian life in the days since Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The campaign is supported by many elected leaders in Michigan, which has one of the largest populations of Arab Americans in the country, about half of whom voted for Biden in 2020.

“We have lost family members, we have lost friends, we have lost loved ones. … This community is made up of immigrants, first, second, third and so on, generations from that region. So this largely affects our community. Biden’s core constituency — Democrats,” said Layla Elabed , an activist in Michigan who is voting uncommitted.

“We’ve protested, we’ve demonstrated, we’ve done die-ins. We’ve used our social media to appeal for a permanent cease-fire. We’ve written to our representatives, our elected officials. We’ve passed city resolutions within our own communities,” she continued. “It seems that our rallying cries are not loud enough.”

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What does ‘all in’ mean? Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones gives his definition

Jones attempted to clarify his view of what constitutes “all in” during his annual bus interview at the nfl scouting combine..

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones speaks to reporters following an NFL football game between...

By Michael Gehlken

8:09 PM on Mar 1, 2024 CST

INDIANAPOLIS — Jerry Jones created a stir on Jan. 30 when the Cowboys’ owner said at the Senior Bowl the organization will be “going all in” this year and “not build it for the future.” Naturally, his comments led some to envision the team being uncharacteristically active at signing premium-priced free agents .

That interpretation always seemed a stretch .

Jones confirmed as much Friday.

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“Your definition of what is all in and mine might not be the same thing,” Jones said at the NFL scouting combine . “But I’m trying to win the games this year with my decision. So I’m all in to this year.”

The Cowboys are not expected to enter free agency with loose pockets. Teams can start negotiating with other clubs’ unrestricted free agents March 11 and begin signing them March 13. The sense at the NFL scouting combine is the Cowboys will be no more active chasing down veterans than they’ve been in recent years past, as potential high-priced extensions for Dak Prescott, Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb loom.

Jones attempted Friday to clarify his view of what constitutes “all in.”

“I’ve drafted quarterbacks for the future, OK?’ Jones said. “I would be reluctant to do that this year. That’s an example — use our first pick for a quarterback this year, for the future if you had an opportunity there you are at [pick No.] 24 and the greatest thing since ice cream, he’s sitting there, I’d be reluctant to do that this year. That’s called all in this year.”

In other words, the Cowboys are not about to exhibit recklessness toward future years’ salary cap, throwing cash at higher-priced veterans and with large signing bonuses.

“All in” does not mean “all or nothing.”

“We’re going to be doing every solution or working toward the solution being to win this year,” Jones said. “Every solution. And that’s what I mean ‘all in.’ We won’t put a lot of things and get value when we can get more value more now, get more value in the future. We’ll be all-in this year. That could be in any area. It will be in any area but certainly doesn’t have to just be in free agency or it doesn’t have to just be in the draft. An aggressive approach to the draft, trading up with a lot of picks or trading down with a lot of picks. We just have in mind the team that’s going on the field this year.

“We all know that every team in this league has limitations as far as where they are on the cap and where they are in the draft and where they are with their free agents, who they can use the franchise tag. You only have one. All of those kinds of things. But my point is that we can be better. Dak [Prescott] can play better than he has maybe — we could argue one of the best years he’s ever had in his career. But the good news is, I’m convinced that he can play better, and I’m convinced that we can do some things better all the way around, and so we’re all in.”

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What is leap day? Is 2024 a leap year? Everything you need to know about Feb. 29

2024 is a leap year , meaning Thursday, Feb. 29 is a once-in-every-four-year event.

Since leap years typically happen every four years (although there are some exceptions ), our last leap days were in 2020 and 2016, and the next leap year will happen in 2028.

And since this is a day that doesn't come around often, people are celebrating in different ways, with businesses offering special deals in commemoration and others finally celebrating their Feb. 29 birthday .

Here's everything you need to know about leap day, including what is it, why it comes every four years and when it was created.

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What is leap day?

Leap day is an extra day that gets added to the calendar. During a leap year, which occurs every four years, leap day falls on Feb. 29, giving the shortest month of the year one added day.

Why is leap day every four years?

The reason there are leap days, and years, is because of the Earth's orbit.

The amount of days it takes for the Earth to complete a full revolution around the Sun is not a whole number. The 365 days we experience is actually  365.242190 days , according to the National Air and Space Museum.

Getting rid of those 0.242190 days adds up.

That fraction allows seasons to correctly line up each year. If leap day was left off the calendar, the months during which we normally experience each season would eventually shift. This would impact other aspects of life, such as the growing and harvesting of crops.

When added, four 0.242190 days roughly equal one full day, which is why Feb. 29 is added to the calendar of most years that are divisible by four, including 2024.

When do we skip leap day?

To make up for decimals of time, we'll sometimes skip leap years, but it's rare. Prepare for a little bit of math: years divisible by 100 but not 400 are skipped, meaning we skipped leap years in 1700, 1800 and 1900 but not 2000. The next leap year we'll skip is quite a ways away, in 2100.

How often is leap year? Here's the next leap day after 2024 and when we'll (eventually) skip one

Who created leap day?

The concept of adding leap days is not new and  has been around for millennia , Britannica reports. Some calendars – such as the Hebrew, Chinese and Buddhist calendars – contained leap months, also known as " intercalary or interstitial months ," according to the History Channel.

While Julius Caesar is often credited for originating leap days, he got the idea from the Egyptians. By the  third-century BCE , Egyptians followed a solar calendar that spanned 365 days with a leap year every four years, National Geographic reports.

In ancient Rome, their calendar varied and included a 23-day intercalary month called " Mercedonius ." But it was not a standalone month. Mercedonius was added to February to account for the difference between the Roman year and solar year, according to the History Channel.

When making the Julian calendar, Caesar took inspiration from the Egyptians and decided to add an extra day to the month of February every four years. The Julian calendar officially began  on Jan. 1 in 45 BCE .

This method would continue over several centuries, but not without issue. Caesar's math of 365.25 days was close, but it wasn't the exact 365.242190 days the solar year contains. To be precise, Caesar " overestimated the solar year by 11 minutes ," the History Channel reports. This meant the Julian calendar would be  short a day every 128 years , according to National Geographic.

By the 16th century, time had shifted again and not in a good way. Major dates had changed, including Easter. The holiday is supposed to occur on the first Sunday following the first full moon on or after  the spring equinox . At the time, Easter's date had moved by  about 10 days .

To fix this, Pope Gregory XIII  introduced the Gregorian calendar , which kept a leap day every four years but eliminated it during centurial years not divisible by 400, according to the History Channel. This is why  1700, 1800 and 1900  were not leap years, but 2000 was.

Despite its accuracy, the Gregorian calendar is not flawless. Instead of being off by one day every 128 years like the Julian calendar, the Gregorian calendar  falls short once every 3,030 years , the History Channel reports.

Upcoming leap days

This year, 2024, is a leap year. Leap day will fall on Thursday, Feb. 29.

The next leap years will be in 2028, 2032 and 2036.

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Feb. 29 is the  rarest birthday someone could have . Still, at least 5 million people celebrate their birthday on leap day, according to the History Channel. Your odds of being born on Feb. 29 are  one-in-1,461 .

Many "Leaplings" (or those born on leap day) will celebrate their birthdays on Feb. 28 or March 1 during a typical 365-day year, even though documents will reflect it is on Feb. 29.

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