New Year Festivals
NEW YEAR FESTIVALS. The concept of year, which is found in all higher cultures (as solar year or lunar year or some combination of the two), is not known in all archaic cultures. So...
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New Year’s Eve can be frustratingly anticlimactic. How many times have you found yourself stuck at a boring party or on a couch waiting for the ball to drop while you wonder what you’re...
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Dear Santa,My name is Timmy and I'm in the third grade.My mom says I have to write thank-you letters for gifts. So thanks for the video games and stuff. But I have a couple of things I'd like to kn...
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Wind-swept revelers gathered around London's Big Ben to watch the fireworks, and thousands of Japanese climbed Mount Fuji and other peaks to watch the first sunrise of the New Year. But the Thai ca...
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From New York to Baghdad to Sydney, New Year's revelers welcomed 2008 with parties, fireworks and hopes for peace and prosperity.But reminders of violence were apparent as security was tightened in...
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The travel gurus are looking into their crystal balls for the new year. Here are a few of their predictions.Terry Trippler, an airline analyst, says that while there will be fewer airfare increases...
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It seems that now, on New Year’s Eve, everything shifts east. New Jersey stumbles into Manhattan; Manhattan’s riffraff ends up in Brooklyn. (The Transom isn’t sure yet where Brook...
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It seems that now, on New Year’s Eve, everything shifts east. New Jersey stumbles into Manhattan; Manhattan’s riffraff ends up in Brooklyn. (The Transom isn’t sure yet where Brook...
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It’s hard to know who was happier to see 2007 disappear—Governor Eliot Spitzer, or Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan. For both men, the past 12...
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It could be a happy new year for clinical trials in Europe. The European Union agreed—just in time—on its research support program for 2007–2013. The agreement, reached only in De...
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New Year Festivals
New Year's Getaway
