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  New Years Day
The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.
New Years is still observed as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations.
The use of an image of a baby with a New Years banner as a symbolic representation of the new year was brought to early America by the Germans.
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 New Years
Although the new year has been celebrated since prehistoric times, it was celebrated on the vernal equinox rather than what we now consider the first of the year.
Years later, Julius Caesar wanted to change the date to a more logical date but that year, January 1, 45 BC was the date of a new moon.
New Year Resolutions is simply another way to wish away the past in exchange for hopes of the future.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Year's Day
Since there was no necessary starting-point in the circle of the year, we find among different nations, and among the same at different epochs of their history, a great variety of dates with which the new year began.
Barley ripens in Palestine during the early part of April; and thus the sacred year began with the harvest, the civil year with the sowing of the crops.
In Christian liturgy the Church does not refer to the first of the year, any more than she does to the fact that the first Sunday of Advent is the first day of the ecclesiastical year.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11019a.htm   (881 words)

  
 New Year's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Year's Eve, the previous day, and Christmas, Hanukkah, and Thanksgiving, which are nearby holidays.
New Year's Day is the first day of the year, in the Gregorian calendar.
This day is traditionally a religious feast, but since the 1900s, has become an occasion for celebration the night of December 31, called New Year's Eve.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Years_Day   (1073 words)

  
 New Years Day History
New Years celebration is one of the oldest holiday celebrations that is still celebrated today.
Each year people gather by the hundreds of thousands and crowd into the streets of Time Square for the annual New Years Eve celebration.
New Years Eve in Time Square is a perfect theme for a New Years Eve party.
mrsparty.com /new-years-day-history.htm   (585 words)

  
 New Years Day
In the years around 2000 BC, Babylonians celebrated the beginning of a new year on what is now March 23, although they themselves had no written calendar.
The Romans continued to observe the new year on March 25, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
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 New Year's Eve & New Year's Day. - History + Cartoon Fun by Brownielocks.
In Denmark, they "smash in the new year" by banging on the doors of their friends' homes and throwing pieces of broken pottery against the sides of the houses.
But this is a fairly new concept because up until the time of Julius Caesar, the Romans celebrated the New Year in March because it was the first month in the Roman calendar.
When Constantine ruled the Romans and accepted Christianity as their new faith, they kept the Festival of Janus as the New Years Day (Not March as before) and turned it into a day of prayer and fasting and not parties etc. It was a day for all good Christians to turn over a new leaf.
www.brownielocks.com /NewYears.html   (1874 words)

  
 New years day
New Years Eve is a big celebration with many people celebrating this with their friends.
Because it was New Years Eve many Cubans were buying their special cakes for their families.
I met a friend on the street who explained that unlike the rest of the world there were no fireworks marking the New Year.
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 Carla's New Years Day Page
In the Middle Ages most European countries used the Julian calendar and observed New Year's Day on March 25, called Annunciation Day and celebrated as the occasion on which it was revealed to Mary that she would give birth to the Son of God.
Traditionally the day has been observed as a religious feast, but in modern times the arrival of the New Year has also become an occasion for spirited celebration and the making of personal resolutions.
The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah, or the Feast of Trumpets, and is prescribed by the Old Testament as a holy Sabbath.
www.carla-online.com /seasonal/newyears   (288 words)

  
 New Years Day Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As the years go by you can see how the covers changed from simple visual gags into ones that are much more graphic and busy because they have to work harder on the newsstand.
Pick any day of the year, and you can read the New York Times story of what the authors select as the most important sports event of that day in history.
Justice and mercy: commentary on the liturgy of the New Year and the Day of Atonement
www.holiday-book-reviews.com /New_Years_Day   (1870 words)

  
 New Years Day Recipes
New Years Day menus are available at menus.
New Orleans people tend to like a blond or peanut butter colored roux, so feel free to make it that way.
Storage: The dough could be prepared the day before and can be kept in the refrigerator for about 3 days.
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 Celebrate! Holidays In The U.S.A. - New Year's Day (January 1)
At New Year's Eve parties across the United States on December 31, many guests watch television as part of the festivities.
Athletic events were held in the afternoon, and in the evening, a ball where winners of the events of the day and the most beautiful float were announced.
The theme of the Tournament of Roses varies from year to year.
www.usemb.se /Holidays/celebrate/newyears.html   (672 words)

  
 Holiday Insights : New Years Day (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.ece.ucdavis.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
New Year's Eve is when all the fun and festivities are.
New Years' Day on the other hand, is a time to relax and enjoy the start of a bright and promising new year....a new beginning.
New Years Trivia: Did you know that a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
www.holidayinsights.com.cob-web.org:8888 /other/newyears.htm   (250 words)

  
 New Years Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Definition: The tradition of ringing in the new year began from the Roman God Janus, who had two faces - one for looking forward the other for looking backward.
Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, decided that the year should start in the month January in honor of Janus.
Celebrated on January 14 in the Ukraine due to the different calendar year.
www.kidsturncentral.com /holidays/glossary/defnewyears.htm   (72 words)

  
 New Years Day
he celebrations for the New Year this year will be spectacular because it will bring us to the commencement of a new decade, a new century and a new millennium.
125 years ago on New Year's Eve the bands used to come from Sarteneja when it was not a local group.
By eight o'clock the dance was in fu1l swing and the 25 or 35 girls were the main target of a whole army of men who wanted to dance to the tune of rumba, merengue, cumbia, bolero, corridas, waltz.
www.ambergriscaye.com /25years/newyearsday.html   (645 words)

  
 Partyology New Year's Day Information
Celebrating the beginning of a new year is a tradition for many people, and varies as to the date that it is celebrated according the calendar people use.
In 1582 the Gregorian calendar set January 1 as the beginning of the new year, many European countries adopted it then, Germany adopted it in 1700, England (and it's colonies) in 1752, Sweden in 1753, Japan in 1873, and China in 1912, Russia in 1918.
The New Year baby is used as a symbol of rebirth of a new year.
www.partyology.com /infonewyearsday.htm   (146 words)

  
 MaineToday.com | New Years Day Birding - Butcherbird!: New Years Day Birding - Butcherbird!
Many birders keep “Year Lists.” All of the species that they have seen within one calendar year, usually within a specific area, such as the state of Maine, or North America.
Even though beginning our new year list was not the motivation, the chance to enjoy a leisurely day off and do some birding was more than enough to convince us to bundle up and head out to the frozen tundra of Scarborough Marsh.
Robby had the same idea — he was however, beginning his new year list - and so the three of us (and Sasha as well of course) headed down the trail.
outdoors.mainetoday.com /naturewatching/fieldnotes/004297.html   (545 words)

  
 New Years Day Climatic Data for Rockford
New Years Day Weather for Northern Illinois: Statistics for Chicago and Rockford
In fact the record high temperature for Rockford on New Years Day is 49 degrees set in 1916!
In the past, daily precipitation amounts on the holiday have ranged from 0.01 inches to over an inch as the greatest precipitation total for the holiday is 1.37 inches set in 1948.
www.crh.noaa.gov /lot/holidays/New_Years_Day/rfd_newyears.php   (388 words)

  
 Russian New Years Day - New Years Day in Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A day before the New Year tsar usually visited the Moscow Kremlin where everybody, both nobles and peasants could ask him for judgment and mercy.
At September New Year the church ceremony took place, which was taken from Byzantium and started by Constantine the Great.
At first year of 18 century Peter ordered to introduce the time scale from Birth of Christ instead of the time scale from the beginning of the world.
www.global7russia.com /russia/russian-holidays/new-years.asp   (766 words)

  
 BPPA - New Years Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
"New Years Day" was conceived as an antidote to the hugely successful and time consuming "Five Thousand Days".
By setting the project against the background of the first of January we deliberately chose a day when the majority of the members wouldn't be out there shooting news pictures.
The selection of photographs that were submitted both surprised and delighted the small panel of members who selected the work that you see displayed here - on the web as it was intended to be seen.
www.britishpressphoto.org /newyearsday   (98 words)

  
 2006 Bandanna New Years Day Walk & Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Join us in the New Year’s Day Run and Walk and start your 2006 commitment to fitness off on the right foot.
All proceeds from the 2006 New Years 5K will be used to help support the Boise YMCA Team Idaho Track and Cross Country Club.
This club, started 26 years ago, helps kids at all levels improve and enjoy track and field and cross country in addition to learning goal setting, sportsmanship and proper methods of reaching a high level of fitness.
newyears.spondoro.com   (254 words)

  
 purevolume™ | New Years Day
We will be releasing a new 5 song E.P. in a month or two with some songs that will be on the full length, and the full length should be finished being printed in a couple months after that for a release date of early '07.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with TVT Records, it's the largest independent record label worldwide, and has bands that include (or have included) Nine Inch Nails, Sevendust, Lil' Jon (haha...
P.S. We're on the soundtrack to the new Xbox 360 game called Saint's Row with great bands like Motion City Soundtrack, The Fall of Troy, Jane's Addiction, Bear vs. Shark, Bad Brains, Mastodon, etc., so if you have a 360, go pick one up.
www.purevolume.com /newyearsday   (624 words)

  
 New Years Activities --- Love to Learn Place.com
The tabernacle was erected on the New Year.
¶ And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Nehemiah tells us the day was honored by the reading of God's Law-Word and rejoicing (See: Nehemiah 8:1-12).
www.lovetolearnplace.com /SpecialDays/NewYears/Activities.html   (1217 words)

  
 HolidaySMART: New Years Day
Kidproj Multicultural Calendar: New Year children from around the world tell about their families New Year Celebrations.
New Year's Day history, customs and traditions around the world.
New Year's Eve Marathon celebrate New Year's in every time zone
www.holidaysmart.com /1newyearsday.htm   (120 words)

  
 New Year's Day: History Party Supplies Free Games Decorations Coloring Pages
Many believe it was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago it marked the first New Moon after the Vernal Equinox.
How did New Years Day move from the summer to the winter?
A good question, especially since the spring is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming.
new-years-day.com   (86 words)

  
 New Years Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Sometimes the new year brings a resolutions, other times it just solidifies the resolutions you already had.
Cause in 20 years when everyone forgets we are just gonna use it to sell something.
We are living in the years of lies, and the father of lies is puling the strings.
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 New Years Day
In its place was a new (1996) Park Royal Garden Plaza.
No luck finding the old office site, although I am fifty per cent certain that a new restaurant complex now occupies that site.
Our escort was delighted when we gave him a modest tip as a New Year's gift.
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 www.myspace.com/newyearsday
New Years Day's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
New E.P. to be released Nov. 8th (view more)
well i am sitting here on my butt, being sick and i think, "hmm what will make me feel better?" new years day, that's what.
www.myspace.com /newyearsday   (1038 words)

  
 New Year's Day -- History, Traditions, and Customs
New Year's Day -- History, Traditions, and Customs
An old Scotch tune, "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," or simply, "the good old days." The lyrics can be found here.
New Years snacks, New Years toasts, New Years party ideas, New Years decorations and more.
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 Holiday Origins for American Holidays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Holidays are days people can spend time together, commemorate notable occasions, and celebrate joyous events.
Americans are unique from the rest of the world in several ways with regards to holidays.
Finally, while we recognize many holidays, National holidays (days off from work) are fewer than many other countries.
www.holidayorigins.com   (230 words)

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