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    366 Squared. Volume 2 - February
    366 Squared. Volume 2 - February
    366 Squared. Volume 2 - February
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    366 Squared. Volume 2 - February

    By Michel Clasquin-Johnson

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    Welcome to Volume 2 of 366 Squared, the e-book series that poses the question, "Just how much sense and/or nonsense can one say in 366 words?" This volume contains twenty-nine entries covering the month of February. It turned out to be a difficult month, and there are more mini-essays than I originally planned. There is also a lot more fantasy and less science fiction than I thought there would be. Oh well, I can only take this project where the source material allows me to. We'll see what happens in the next volume.

    But back to the present. February is, of course, the most important month of the year. The fact that it contains my birthday has nothing to do with it, it is an objective fact. What other month has the honour of varying its length depending on whether the year is divisible by 4, 100 or 400?
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    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateDec 13, 2014
    ISBN9781301099870
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      366 Squared. Volume 2 - February - Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      366 Squared

      Volume 2: February

      by Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      Copyright 2012 Michel Clasquin-Johnson

      ISBN 9781301099870

      E-Book Distribution: XinXii

      http://www.xinxii.com

      1st Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your preferred reseller and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Background to cover image courtesy of NASA. All other graphics used in this book or on the cover are in the public domain or are Creative-Content-licensed and were obtained either from Wikimedia,Wikipedia or other royalty-free content providers.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Introduction to Volume 2

      February 1, 1884

      February 2, 1st Century CE

      February 3, 1637

      February 4, 1987

      February 5, 1818

      February 6, 1911

      February 7, 1497

      February 8, 1828

      February 9, 1960

      February 10, 2009

      February 11, 1960

      February 12, 1809

      February 13, 2000

      February 14

      February 15, 1946

      February 16, 1923

      February 18, 1564

      February 19

      February 20, 1524

      February 21, 1878

      February 22, 1732

      February 23, 1974

      February 24, 1582

      February 25, 1338

      February 26, 1946

      February 27, 1933

      February 28, 2013

      February 29

      Day References for February

      About the Author

      Introduction

      This book series comes from a challenge I set myself in September 2012: write a story a day for a year (and include a bonus story for February 29). I wanted to reinvent myself as a writer, and things were going ... slowly. I needed a shock to the system, something to get myself to open that same file day after day and pound away on the keyboard. Even if I didn't work on anything else that day, at least I would have done this one little thing. By the end of one year, I would have created the equivalent of a 130 000 word novel.

      And so, day after day, I opened up the usual This Day in History websites and saw what had happened that was interesting, that I might be able to weave a tale around. Naturally, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... Soon enough I found myself behind schedule. People get sick. People's kids get sick. People get fired up writing on other projects. It also became clear that the Table of Contents for such a book would become ridiculously unwieldy.

      I just decided to be kind to myself: as soon as I had a month's worth of stories ready to go I would put them out there in a collection. If it took me more than a year to fill out the entire calendar, so mote it be! Whether the whole lot will ever be reassembled into an omnibus remains to be seen. If there is a demand for it, sure. Let me know.

      Almost every story in this volume is based on a real event, a celebration, a birth or a death associated with a specific day. But you may have to read carefully to figure out just what that was. I'm certainly not going to give it away in the title: if you need to know in advance what the story is going to be about, then the story itself is a flop. But if the reference is too obscure, you can look it up in the back of the book, where all the day references are listed.

      And it is just a reference to that day. The actual action in the story may take place slightly earlier or later in time. It may even be a reference transposed centuries into

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