New Year's traditions through the ages
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January 4, 2018
Ed Moreth
NIGHT BRIGHTENER – Fireworks bringing in the new year at Quinn's Hot Springs Resort fill the sky between Paradise Hall and the Clark Fork River on New Year's Eve. Steve Underwood of Rocketman Pyros out of Spokane put 397 rounds in the sky within four minutes for more than 200 people at the New Year's Eve event.
If you made a New Year's Resolution, according to historians you just took part in a tradition dating back some 4,000 years.
Babylonians began the annual New Year tradition four centuries ago in mid-late March, during the first full moon after vernal equinox when seasonal crops were planted. Sym...
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