List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve
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List of objects dropped on New Year's Eve
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On New Year's Eve, many localities in the United States and elsewhere mark the beginning of a new year through the raising or lowering of an object. Many of these events are patterned on festivities that have been held at New York City's Times Square since 1908, where a large crystal ball is lowered down a pole atop One Times Square. In turn, the event was inspired by the time balls used by ship navigators in the 19th century to calibrate their chronometers. Whilst some of these events use a bal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_dropped_on_New_Year%27s_Eve
date created:
2004-12-31T16:29:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:22:54Z
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