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New Year! History & Traditions

"Happy New Year" The traditional greeting often spoken as a new year begins come January. However, New Year's Day was not always January...

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New Years Trivia & Cultures

It is only under the Gregorian calendar that New Year's Day falls on Jan. 1. Traditionally the day has been observed as a religious feast...

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6 Fabulous Champagne Drink Recipes

New Year's Eve. A time for celebration, good food and fine drink. What goes better with celebration than champagne...

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Champagne - 6 Fabulous Champagne Drink Recipes for New Year’s

Champagne - 6 Fabulous Champagne Drink Recipes for New Year’s

By Leslie

New Year's Eve.  A time for celebration, good food and fine drink.  What goes better with celebration than champagne?  Here are 6 fabulous champagne drink recipes for your New Year's Eve celebration.   Champagne Cocktail Chilled Champagne 1 piece Sugar lump 2 dashes Bitters 1 twist of Lemon peel Mixing instructions: Place lump of sugar and bitters in a chilled champagne flute. Fill with chilled champagne. Add the twist of lemon peel and serve.    Champagne Martini 2 parts Champagne 1 part Cointreau Mixing instructions: Mix and serve.    Champagne Mango 1/2 part Champagne 1/2 part Mango juice 1 Mango cubed Ice cubes Mixing instructions: Mix Champagne and Mango juice together, add cubed Mango and ice.   A Goodnight Kiss 4 oz Champagne 1 splash Campari 1 cube Sugar 1 drop Angostura bitters Mixing instructions: Put one drop of Angostura Bitter on sugar cube and drop in flute. ...

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New Year's Fun Facts

  • January is named for the Roman god, Janus (or Ianus). Janus was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings.
  • The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
  • The first Ball Lowering celebration atop One Times Square was held on December 31, 1907 and is now a worldwide symbol of the turn of the New Year.
  • The Ball Lowering is seen via satellite by more than one billion people each year.
  • The original New Year's Eve Ball weighed 700 pounds and was 5 feet in diameter. It was made of iron and wood and was decorated with 100 25-watt light bulbs.
  • The most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's eve is "Auld Lang Syne". It is an old Scottish song that was first published by the poet Robert Burns in 1796.

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