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New Year's
Ancient New Year's Customs - Many ancient peoples started the year at harvesttime. They performed rituals to do away with the past and purify themselves for the new year.
Auld Lang Syne - The official Robert Burns site. In spite of the popularity of 'Auld Lang Syne', it has aptly been described as 'the song that nobody knows'.
Billy Bear's Happy New Year's - Billy offers coloring book pages, recipes for tasty beverages, online games, and a real calendar to print out and color. There are also links to January holidays pages around the Net.
Black Dog's Happy New Year - Count down to the New Year with Black Dog. There are lots of games to play, coloring pages to color on or off line, screensavers and wallpapers to download, and greeting cards to send to your friends.
Family Fun Guide to New Years - Here you'll find activities, crafts and recipes to help your family enjoy ringing in the New Year!
Happy New Year - A collection of poems and articles to help ring in the new year.
Heather's Happy Holidaze for Kids Only - Heather is only nine, and she came up with the concept and design of this neat home page all by herself! With a little help from her dad and mom, it's been up and running since September 1995. Pictures go with each of her favorite holidays, so children of all ages can enjoy this site. You'll find scary Halloween links and a search for Tom Turkey for Thanksgiving, but jump around and visit all of the holidays for additional fun.
Holidays Around the World - From Christmas and Hanukkah to Our Lady of Guadelupe Day in Mexico, Guy Fawkes Day in the United Kingdom, and New Year's Eve, November and December are full of revelry, celebration, and solemn religious occasions.
Kid's Domain Winter Fun - Join Kid's Domain for tons of winter fun! You'll find crafts, games, and more to celebrate the season, along with fun for the specific winter holidays.
Kidproj: New Year's Around the World - See how kids describe New Year's celebrations in Denmark, Slovenia, Iceland, China, Singapore, and many other countries. In one of the Netherlands' entries, you can find out how to make a sweet fried delicacy called "oliebollen."
New Year's -- History and Customs - "Happy New Year!" That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modern America was not always January 1.
New Year's Day - Not all countries celebrate New Year at the same time, nor in the same way. This is because people in different parts of the world use different calendars.
New Year's Day Around the World - The beginning of the new year has been welcomed on different dates throughout history. Ways of celebrating differ as well, according to customs and religions of the world. People in Moslem societies, for example, celebrate the new year by wearing new clothes.
New Year's Dissolutions - It's that time of year again when we resolve to get off our lazy duffs and run around the block more often, maybe even cut back on consumption of all those things we know we aren't supposed to eat, drink, or smoke.
New Year's Eve in Times Square - On New Year's Eve in December, 1998, Net-mom and Family of Net-mom were trying to get back home after a trip to India, but we missed our connections and found ourselves far from home on a holiday layover in an airport hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. We watched TV until the early hours of the day. Amazingly, CNN-Europe was showing the events back home in New York! We all got a kick out of watching the big mirrored ball drop down in Times Square, designating the beginning of the new year. Find out all about what's going on there this year, because they will party like it's 1999, for sure.
The New Year - New Year's Eve falls on December 31st, the day before the first day of the calendar year. In the United States, Canada, England, and many other countries around the world, New Year's Eve is a festive occasion marked by boisterous celebrations to welcome the new year.
What Millennium is it, Anyway? - On December 31, 1999, people all over the world will party down like never before in celebration of the beginning of a new millennium. It won't matter much to any of them that they are celebrating the wrong year.
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