New Year's Eve
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New Year's Eve in the Gregorian calendar refers to the evening—or commonly the entire day—of the last day of the year: 31 December. In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated with dancing, eating
New Year celebration in Eberhardzell, Germany, 2018
Italian cotechino and lentils, a typical New Year's Eve dinner dish
Casablanca fireworks display
HKN's Davido entertaining the crowd at the Lagos Countdown 2012 in Nigeria
Auld Lang Syne
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"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish song. In the English-speaking world it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay, or New Year's Eve. It is also often h
New Year's Eve
…paraders swing "fireballs" around their heads made from chicken wire and other flammable scrap at midnight, which are believed to ward off spirits). "Auld Lang Syne" is traditionally sung after midnight at gatherings, with participants traditionally forming a circle with other revellers, and joining hands during…
John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841
Robert Burns
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Fireworks at Edinburgh's Hogmanay