Tuesday, December 29, 2009

HISTORY OF NEW YEAR’S DAY
We have the Romans to thank for celebrating New Year’s Day on January 1. It wasn’t always that way. Indeed, previous civilizations celebrated it in March, to observe the “new year” of growth and fertility. Before calendars existed the time between seed sowing and harvesting was considered a cycle or a [...]

Tagged as: calendar, History, holiday, New Year, Rome

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