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The date of January 1 for the New Year goes back to Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor who ruled a generation before Jesus was born. His calendar, authorized in 46 B.C., used the 365-day solar calendar as its basis and became known as the Julian Calendar. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome, had been used as the image of the New Year more than 100 years before the Julian Calendar came into existence. Janus had two faces and could look back on past events and look forward to the future as well, so his image was associated with new beginnings. The month January is named after Janus for that reason. At midnight on December 31, Romans pictured Janus looking back at the old year and looking ahead at the new year. The Romans started a tradition of exchanging gifts on New Year’s Eve and they also made resolutions for the year ahead. The idea of making New Year’s resolutions was not original with the Romans, however. In fact, it dates all the way back to the early Babylonians (and they celebrated the New Year in the spring, not on January 1). Their most popular resolution was to return farm equipment. The Romans, starting around 153 B.C., simply continued the tradition of New Year’s resolutions that the Babylonians had started. Around 40 percent of Americans will make New Year resolutions. The most popular resolution that people around the world make in our day, not surprisingly, is to lose weight. Other popular resolutions are to spend more time with the kids, quit smoking and save more money. Here are the 10 most popular New Year’s resolutions: 1. Exercise more 2. Quit smoking 3. Learn a new skill 4. Drink less alcohol 5. Be smarter with money 6. Eat healthier 7. Travel 8. Volunteer 9. Spend less time on social media 10. Improve a relationship It would seem strange for us to recognize any other date besides Jan. 1 for the New Year. Another tradition Americans have grown up with – especially those of us who live in the Eastern Standard Time zone – is the dropping of the ball in Times Square. That tradition doesn’t date back quite as far back as the Babylonians but it is nearly 120 years old. The first time the ball was dropped in Times Square was 1907. Actually, the idea of dropping the ball as a signal of the passing of time was taken from the English Royal Observatory at Greenwich, which started that particular tradition in 1833. The first ball that was dropped in New York in 1907 was made of iron and wood and decorated with 100 25-watt light bulbs. It was 5 feet in diameter and weighed about 700 pounds. The ball has been replaced seven times through the years. The latest ball weighs nearly 12,000 pounds and is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered in 2,668 Waterford crystals. More than 150 million Americans will watch the New York City bash on TV or social media. The Ball Drop will also appear on TV sets outside North America, as well. Broadcasters in Spain, China, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Venezuela and other countries will show the event, according to its website. Americans drink close to 360 million glasses of “sparkling wine” during the New Year celebration. The bubbly stuff dates back to the 17th century, when the cork was invented. The song most associated with New Year’s is “Auld Lang Syne.” It was written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1741 and first published in 1796 after Burns’ death. Burns put words to a melody that was already popular in Scotland and it has become the standard for bringing in the New Year. “Auld Lang Syne” literally means “old long ago” or, in modern English, “the good old days.”Brighton frustrated in goalless draw with BrentfordNone
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