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nounthe month following January and preceding March
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- fish the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
- march the month following February and preceding April
- mar the month following February and preceding April
- aquarius the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18
- pisces the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
- iwo a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
- yalta a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
- adar the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March)
- yalta conference a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
- old style calendar the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February