Excerpt from The Book of Days, Vol. 1 of 2: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, and History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character
Of weeks there are 52, and one day over, in ordinary years, or two days over in leap-years; and hence the recurrence of a particular day of the month never falls in an immediately succeed ing year on the same day of the week, but on one a day. In advance in the one case, and two in the other. Every twenty-eight years, however.
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