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Topic: New Year’s Day

White Sangria (Getty Images/BURCU ATALAY TANKUT)

Countdown to 2024 with this sangria

Bibi Hutchings
Grapes, Pomegranates and Oranges (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

5 foods traditionally eaten on New Year

Joy Saha
Black-Eyed Peas In Bowl On Cutting Board (Getty Images/Silvia Elena Castañeda Puchetta/EyeEm)

Black-eyed peas and New Year’s cooking

Joy Saha
Bruce Willis in "Die Hard with a Vengeance" (20th Century Fox)

Your New Year's Day hangover watch list

John Semley
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The Waterford crystal ball is lit during a test for the New Year's Eve celebration atop One Times Square in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. The ball, which is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 11,875 pounds, is decorated with 2,688 Waterford crystals and illuminated by 32,256 LED lights. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Why New Year's Eve disappoints

Kali Holloway - Alternet

New Year's

Matthew Smith

NYE

Peter Cooper
(Paramount Pictures)

New Year's, a bad day to quit

Susan Shapiro
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Fireworks explode over the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge during pre-New Years Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. Thousands of people crammed into Lady Macquaries Chair look-out to see the new year in and watch the annual fireworks show. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (Rob Griffith)

Happy new year! But why Jan 1?

Katherine Kelaidis
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

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