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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cherylkubucko, post: 490491, member: 9624&quot;]<b>Hope ya&#039;ll have a Happy and safe year</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Day#History" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Day#History" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Day#History</a></b></p><p><b>New Year&#039;s Day</b> is the first day of the new year. On the modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Gregorian calendar</span></a>, it is celebrated on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">January 1</span></a>, as it was also in ancient Rome (though other dates were also used in Rome). In all countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, except for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Israel</span></a>, it is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holiday" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holiday" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">public holiday</span></a>,[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">citation needed</span></a></i>] often celebrated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">fireworks</span></a> at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">January 1</span></a> on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Julian calendar</span></a> corresponds to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">January 14</span></a> on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Eastern Orthodox</span></a> churches celebrate the New Year.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Originally observed on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">March 15</span></a> in the old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Calendar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Calendar" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Roman Calendar</span></a>, New Year&#039;s Day first came to be fixed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">January 1</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/153_BC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/153_BC" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">153 BC</span></a>, when the two Roman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">consuls</span></a>, after whom - in the Roman calendar - years were named and numbered, began to be chosen on that date, for military reasons. However, dates in March, coinciding with the first day of spring, or commemorating the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Annunciation</span></a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Jesus</span></a>, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">January</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">December</span></a> in the Roman fashion.</p><p>Among the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th-century" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th-century" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">7th-century</span></a> pagans of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Flanders</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Netherlands" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">the Netherlands</span></a> it was the custom to exchange gifts at the New Year, a pagan custom deplored by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eligius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eligius" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Saint Eligius</span></a> (died <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/659" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/659" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">659</span></a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/660" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/660" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">660</span></a>), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, &quot;[Do not] make vetulas, [little figures of the Old Woman], little deer or iotticos or set tables [for the house-elf, compare <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(mythology)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Puck</span></a>] at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks [another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Yule</span></a> custom].&quot; The quote is from the <i>vita</i> of Eligius written by his companion Oueen..</p><p>Most countries in Western Europe officially adopted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">January 1</span></a> as New Year&#039;s Day somewhat before they adopted the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Gregorian calendar</span></a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Annunciation" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Annunciation" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Feast of the Annunciation</span></a>, March 25 (9 months before December 25), was the first day of the new year in England until the adoption of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Calendar" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Gregorian Calendar</span></a> in 1752. The March 25th date was called <i>Annunciation Style</i>; the January 1 date was called <i>Circumcision Style</i>, because this was the date of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Circumcision" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Circumcision" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Feast of the Circumcision</span></a>, being the eighth day counting from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_25" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_25" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">December 25</span></a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">England</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Scotland</span></a> an extra round of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(soccer)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(soccer)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">football</span></a> fixtures is played (unless New Year&#039;s Day falls on a Friday or Sunday). </p><p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena,_California" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Pasadena, California</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">United States</span></a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_of_Roses" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_of_Roses" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Tournament of Roses</span></a> is held, with revelers viewing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">parade</span></a> from the streets and watching on television, followed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(game)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(game)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Rose Bowl</span></a> football game. </p><p>The aforementioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(game)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(game)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Rose Bowl</span></a> football game is one of several postseason <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_games" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_games" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">bowl games</span></a> played in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">college football</span></a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">United States</span></a> (though in recent years it, due to its involvement in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_Championship_Series" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_Championship_Series" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">BCS</span></a>, has not always fallen on New Year&#039;s Day; changes in the BCS mean that the Rose Bowl will return as a perennial New Year&#039;s Day fixture). </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_New_Year%27s_Concert" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_New_Year%27s_Concert" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Vienna New Year Concert</span></a>, in Austria. </p><p>Polar Bear Clubs: in many northern hemisphere cities near bodies of water, they will have a tradition of people plunging into the cold water on New Year&#039;s Day. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Coney Island</span></a> Polar Bears Club in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_New_York" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_New_York" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">New York</span></a> is the oldest cold-water swimming club in the United States. They have had groups of people enter the chilly surf since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">1903</span></a>. </p><p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Philadelphia</span></a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Mummers Parade</span></a> is held on Broad Street. </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Hindu</span></a> New Year, which falls at the time and date Sun enters Mesha. </p><p>Hindus celebrate the new year by paying respects to their parents and other elders and seek their blessings. They also exchange tokens of Good Wishes (Kai Vishesham). </p><p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day_Parade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day_Parade" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">New Year&#039;s Day Parade</span></a> is held in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">London</span></a>. Performers include acts from each of the city&#039;s 32 boroughs, as well as entertainment from around the world. </p><p>In the southern United States, people traditionally prepare a meal of collard greens and black-eyed peas for a year of good luck. A dime is often placed beneath the plate as a part of the tradition. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Brittany</span></a>, a common image used is that of an incarnation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Time" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Time" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Father Time</span></a> (or the &quot;Old Year&quot;) wearing a sash across his chest with the previous year printed on it passing on his duties to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_New_Year" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_New_Year" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #002bb8">Baby New Year</span></a> (or the &quot;New Year&quot;), an infant wearing a sash with the new year printed on it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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