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New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is celebrated on December 31, the final day of the year, and the day before New Year's Day. New Year's Eve is an International holiday observed with parties around the world. You can ask questions about resolutions, late-night partying, fireworks, and the countdown to midnight, to name a few. Many cultures use fireworks and other forms of noise making as part of the celebration.
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What country celebrate his independence day twice in a year?
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panama
1st tme 3rd nov
2nd tme 28 nov ko
What lucky color should wear this new year?
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i think the luckies color to wear in 2011 is green or orange, im not sure but that what i heard from the Chinese community..
What and why do the spanish eat at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve?
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For luck. Each sweet grape you eat will be a good month and each sour one will be a bad month. You have to start at 12 am and end before 12:01 am, in Spain they go with the chimes of a certain clock but it's important to finish on time. I believe you are supposed to eat green ones and you can make a wish with each one you eat.
Do Hindus celebrate new year?
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Hinduism is often described as a religion of fasts, feasts and festivals.
Here's a date-wise list of Hindu festivals, including cultural and religious occasions for 2011 (Saka Era: 1932-33 / Vikram Era: 2067-68).
January
•Lohri: Thursday, 13-01-2011
•Makarsankranti / Pongal: Friday / Saturday, 14/15-01-2011
•Uttarayan & Kite Festival: Friday, 14-01-2011
•Thiruvalluvar Day: Sunday, 16-01-2011
•Thaipusam: Thursday, 20-01-2011
February
•Vasant Panchami / Saraswati Puja: Tuesday, 08-02-2011
•Ratha Saptami: Thursday, 10-02-2011
March
•Maha Shivaratri: Wednesday, 02-03-2011
•Holi: Sunday, 20-03-2011
April
•Telugu New Year/ Ugadi / Gudi Padwa/ Cheti Chand: Monday, 04-04-2011
•Hindi New Year (Saka Era 1933): Monday, 04-04-2011
•Ramayana Week: Monday, 04-04-2011 to Tuesday, 12-04-2011
•Ramanavami: Tuesday, 12-04-2011
•Tamil New Year: Thursday, 14-04-2011
•Baisakhi / Vishu: Thursday, 14-04-2011
•Bengali New Year / Bohag Bihu: Friday, 15-04-2011
•Hanuman Jayanti: Sunday/Monday, 17/18-04-2011
May
•Akshaya Tritiya / Akhateej: Friday, 06-05-2011
•Buddha Purnima / Vaisakhi Purnima: Tuesday, 17-05-2011
June
•Ganga Dashami / Ganga Dussehra: Saturday, 11-06-2011
•Vat Purnima: Wednesday, 15-06-2011
July
•Rath Yatra: Sunday, 03-07-2011
•Guru Purnima / Asadha Purnima: Friday, 15-07-2011
August
•Nag Panchami: Saturday, 04-08-2011
•India's Independence Day: Monday, 15-08-2011
•Raksha-Bandhan: Saturday, 13-08-2011
•Krishna Janmashtami: Monday, 22-08-2011
September
•Ganesh/Vinayak Chaturthi: Thursday, 01-09-2011
•Shikshak Divas / Teacher's Day: Monday, 05-09-2011
•Onam: Thursday/Friday, 08/09-09-2011
•Vishwakarma Puja: Saturday, 17-09-2011
•Pitri-Paksha: Tuesday, 13-09-2011 to Tuesday, 27-09-2011
•Mahalaya: Tuesday, 27-09-2011
•Navaratri begins: Wednesday, 28-09-2011
October
•Gandhi Jayanti: Sunday, 02-10-2011
•Durga Puja begins (Maha Saptami): Monday, 03-10-2011
•Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami): Tuesday, 04-10-2011
•Durga Puja (Maha Navami): Wednesday, 05-10-2011
•Navaratri ends: Wednesday, 05-10-2011
•Vijaya Dashami/Dusshera: Thursday, 06-10-2011
•Lakshmi Puja / Kojagari Purnima / Sharad Purnima: Tuesday, 11-10-2011
•Valmiki Jayanti: Tuesday, 11-10-2011
•Karwa Chauth: Saturday, 15-10-2011
•Dhanteras / Dhantrayodashi: Monday, 24-10-2011
•Chhoti Diwali: Tuesday, 25-10-2011
•Diwali / Deepavali: Wednesday, 26-10-2011
•Vikram New Year 2068 / Gujarati New Year: Thursday, 27-10-2011
•Skanda Sashti: Thursday, 27-10-2011 to Tuesday, 01-11-2011
•Bhai Dooj / Bhai Phota / Bhav-Bij: Friday, 28-10-2011
November
•Chhat Puja: Tuesday/Wednesday, 01/02-11-2011
•Tulsi Vivah: Sunday, 06-11-2011
•Guru Nanak Jayanti: Monday, 21-11-2011
December
•Gita Jayanti: Tuesday, 06-12-2011
What do American people eat on New Year's Eve?
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While the American dishes which are served on News Years Eve should be regarded as regional (North vs. South), some common dishes include: Black-Eyed Peas and Greens (a sign of good luck in American culture), Cornbread (as it resembles the color of gold, this food is seen to ensure extra luck), and alcohol of all kinds.
Is the Social Security Office open New Year's Eve?
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Social Security office, in many countries, will have put up a notice giving openning hours over the Christmas / new year break by no later than 2 weeks before the break
What happens on new year's eve?
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On New Years eve you party until 12:00 and when 12:00 comes you watch the ball drop and scream happy New Year
How people celebrate New Year?
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They can play and wake until midnight to change the calenders!
What is the first and last country where New Year's day occurs?
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Kiribati or New Zealand. There's a debate happening on which is the 'first' to see the New Year. Last to see is either American Samoa or Christmas Island.
Why do people shoot guns on New Year's Eve?
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I think people shoot on new years eve because they think they have the ability to harm others for their wrong doing throughout the year
Where in the world is new years celebrated first?
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Samoa not New Zealand previous answer
Is Australia the first country to celebrate New Year's Eve each year?
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That would be Fiji and New Zealand, both two hours ahead of Australia's east coast.
Where does the ball drop take place?
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Presumably you're talking about the one in New York. The ball is atop One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway), which is mostly empty and used primarily for advertising space (the floors are short by modern standards, and renovating the building to make the space attractive to tenants would be expensive... but it does sit in a prominent location in Times Square, one of the busiest places in the world).
When did January 1st become the start of a new year?
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By two Roman Consuls in the year 153 BC.
The Gregorian calendar, which is widely in use throughout the western world today, was initially decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. January 1 was declared as the first day of the new year on 1 January 1622.
Do royal mail on New Year's Eve?
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the royal mail deliver as normal on new years eve
Why does most of the world celebrate new years on January 1st?
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Because the calendar most in use today is the Gregorian calendar and New Year's Day has been defined as January 1.
New Year's Day is a definition put in place and not a natural phenomenon. For instance, the ancient Egyptians had the first day of Thoth as new years day; this was at the reappearance of Sirius at a particular point in the sky. They also used a calendar 365.25 days, more than 2000 years before Caesar introduced it in Rome. After stabilization the 1st of Thoth falls on what we call 29th August.
On 14 September 1580 a commission set up by Pope Gregory XIII, to reform the calendar, signed its official report. In that report was a clause to standardize new year as January 1, the date used by the Julian calendar. This was implemented in October 1582.
This does not mean there are no other new year's days in use. Any calendar not based on the Gregorian calendar will have a different new year. And they are all correct.
New Year is an arbitrary day, introduced by man for the purposes of man.
Does ssi checks come on New Year's Eve?
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No, you will receive your SSI check on Friday the 28th
