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The new year reminds us that every change brings opportunities for growth
Each resolution is a step towards deeper self-growth
The island nation Kiribati in the Central Pacific is the first location to ring in the new year each year.
American Samoa is the second to last place to celebrate the new year behind Baker and Howland Islands, which are both uninhabited.
In the prayers we utter, we find spiritual strength to face challenges
If you've ever spent December 31st at home on your couch, you've probably seen New Year's Rockin' Eve, the show Dick Clark hosted for twenty-four years until suffering a stroke. He often co-hosted in later years with Ryan Seacrest until he died in 2012. Seacrest continues to host the show.
The most common resolution people make is to get healthier.
On New Year's Eve, we celebrate every personal story filled with colors
Each year, it is estimated that 80 percent of New Year's resolutions are abandoned by February.
The new year teaches us to look to the future with clear eyes
Celebrating the first baby of the 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.
Times Square first hosted a New Year's Eve celebration in 1904 with a giant fireworks show but when city leaders banned fireworks a few years later, the ball drop tradition was born in 1907.
The idea of a ball "dropping" to signal the passage of time dates back to 1833 when a ball was installed on top of England's Royal Observatory at Greenwich, allowing the captains of nearby ships to precisely set a vital navigation instrument.
The current ball is a 12-foot sphere that weighs 11,875 pounds and is covered with 2,688 Waterford Crystals
The ball is illuminated by 32,256 LEDs (light-emitting diodes) and can display a palette of more than 16 million vibrant colors and billions of patterns that create a spectacular kaleidoscope effect.
Every second on New Year's Eve is a soul-touching memory
In the company of friends, we find support to move forward with confidence
This is the seventh version of the ball. The first New Year's Eve Ball, made of iron and wood and adorned with one hundred 25-watt light bulbs, was 5 feet in diameter and weighed 700 pounds.
In 1920, a 400-pound ball made of wrought iron replaced the original. In 1955, that was replaced with an aluminum ball that weighed just 150 pounds. It stayed the same until the 1980s, when red light bulbs and the addition of a green stem turned the ball into an apple for the "I Love New York" marketing campaign. After seven years, the traditional glowing white ball returned.
The ball has been lowered every year since 1907, with the exceptions of 1942 and 1943, when the ceremony was suspended due to the wartime "dimout" of lights in New York City.
Typically, a million people crowd into Times Square to watch the ball drop.
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In Miami, there's an orange that rises rather than a ball that drops. The 35-foot neon-lit Big Orange rises up on the side on the InterContinental Hotel, and fireworks launch when it reaches the top.
Since 2010, residents of Eastover, North Carolina have gathered at the community building on New Year's Eve to watch a three-foot-tall, 30-pound ceramic flea made of foam, wood and wire drop. The town manager created it to honor the town once being known as flea hill because of a flea infestation.
At the historic Hershey Press Building in Pennsylvania, a 300-pound, seven-foot-tall Hershey's Kiss is raised three stories.
The New Year's Eve Pickle Drop started in 1999 with a handful of Mt. Olive Pickle employees and now draws several thousand to the North Carolina town every year. The glowing, three-and-a-half-foot pickle drops from the Mount Olive Volunteer Fire Department's tower truck.
Skiers form a glowing train and ski down Golden Peak in Vail, Colorado with a fireworks show following the annual Torchlight parade.
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In Mobile, Alabama a 12-foot, 600-pound electric Moon Pie drops at midnight (even though the sweet treat is made in Tennessee).
Nashville gets in on the new year fun by dropping a musical note in Music City and of course accompanying the drop is a big public concert.