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very quiet in the western front.
WELCOME TO PAGE 101 - THE PAGE AFTER PAGE 100 !!!
Wow! Page 101 already. That was quick.
Wow it's been quiet the past hour, eh?
In case I'm not around to party until the new year, hope you all have a great weekend!
Plants Make You Happy
One consistent finding across numerous studies is that nature—walking in it, looking at it, even thinking about it, tends to boost happiness. For example, in one study of prisoners it was found that those with views from their cells of surrounding landscape suffered fewer stress-related illnesses than those prisoners who did not have the views.
Yellow Actually Is a Happy Color
Instead of "feeling blue," it might be more accurate to say someone is "feeling gray." Those who are feeling anxious or depressed were found to actually associate their mood with the color gray—selecting variations of the monochromatic color from a color wheel presented to them by researchers from the University Hospital South Manchester. In contrast, healthy participants were most likely to point to the color yellow (especially Yellow 14) as the mood they were feeling. The researchers proposed the color wheel as an effective method for helping detect affective disorders, but it also points to the potential mood-boosting power of sunny colors.
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PAGE 101!
Wow, some of y'all are really getting your post counts up there!
Thanks for this. Will look into this in my free time.
Good morning everyone! How's the party going? Everyone excited?
I guess everyone's tired after late night real life parties. Let me keep the party up by sharing some facts.
NEW YEAR FACTS
Over 50 tons of trash are left in Times Square after New Year’s Eve celebrations.
About 3,000 pounds of that is confetti — that's a lot to clean up!
NEW YEAR FACTS
The confetti dropped in Times Square is holding secret messages.
The confetti in Times Square has thousands of people's wishes written on them. In 2015 "wishfetti" became a part of the tradition. People write their wishes for the new year and submit them to the Wish Wall in Times Square (or online) and those wishes are turned into the confetti that falls over the crowd at midnight.
NEW YEAR FACTS
Many Brazilians welcome the New Year at the beach.
It is considered good luck to make seven wishes while jumping seven waves — so you can count on a good old New Year's beach party down in Rio de Janeiro!
NEW YEAR FACTS
If you hear plates breaking in Denmark on New Year’s Eve, it’s considered good luck.
The Danes hold a tradition of throwing plates at the front door of family and friends’ homes to welcome good fortune for the new year.
NEW YEAR FACTS
ABC's 'New Year’s Rockin’ Eve' show is a long standing tradition.
Dick Clark began hosting the show in 1974. In December 2004, Clark suffered a stroke and Regis Philbin stepped in at the last minute to host. In 2005, Clark officially handed hosting duties over to Ryan Seacrest.
NEW YEAR FACTS
Most New Year’s resolutions aren’t taken too seriously.
Nearly 80% of resolutions made at the beginning of the year are forgotten by February. So no worries if you need to restart!
NEW YEAR FACTS
You can thank a pope for making our new year start on January 1.
The Gregorian calendar was introduced in October of 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a revised version of the Julian calendar. It took almost 350 years for the world to get on board. Turkey didn't make the switch until 1927.
NEW YEAR FACTS
The reason January is called January is actually kind of deep.
It's been widely reported that the month was named for the Roman god Janus, but it's actually rooted in the Latin word "ianua," which means door. The name was chosen to symbolize the opening of a new door that happens when the new year begins.
NEW YEAR FACTS
Baby New Year is actually really old.
Baby New Year has been a symbol of the holiday since around 600 B.C., starting in ancient Greece when an infant was paraded around in a basket in celebration of Dionysus, the god of fertility (and wine). The baby represents a rebirth that occurs at the start of each new year.
NEW YEAR FACTS
The guy credited with Auld Lang Syne didn't fully write it.
Robert Burns took a Scottish folk song called "Old Long Syne" and put his own spin on it in 1788, which is the version we all know today. Auld lang syne means "times long past."
NEW YEAR FACTS
Time balls were invented to help sailors.
Long before it was used on New Year's Eve, a ball on top of England's Royal Observatory in Greenwich was dropped at 1 p.m. every day (starting in 1833) to help ship captains coordinate their navigation equipment. Similar balls were set up in coastal areas around the world.
NEW YEAR FACTS
The first Times Square New Year's party was thrown for a newspaper.
The annual tradition of gathering in Times Square for New Year's started as a party to celebrate the opening of the New York Times building in 1904. Over 200,000 people attended.