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New Year celebration in Times Square Assyrian Christian celebrants in traditional clothing march outdoors, carrying Assyrian flags, with a drummer and a man playing a wind instrument during Aketo New Year in Dohuk, Iraq.
Traditions of the Chinese New Year
Celebrating Songkran, Thailand's Water Festival
A woman in a pink headscarf sits beside a haft-sin table set with symbolic items for Nowruz in a tiled garden area near a fountain in Tehran, Iran.
Group of people celebrating the New Year with streamers.
Traditional Ugadi festive arrangement with a bowl of pachadi, mango, banana, spices, flowers, and leaves, symbolizing the flavors of life for the Telugu New Year in India. Two Jewish men wearing yarmulkes and tallitot, one blowing a shofar and the other holding a prayer book, praying during Rosh Hashana in Uman, Ukraine.
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Traditions of the Chinese New Year
Overview of the Chinese New Year, which begins with the first new moon that occurs...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Celebrating Songkran, Thailand's Water Festival
Learn about Songkran, a New Year festival in Thailand that is celebrated in April.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Hwannaa/Dreamstime.com
The Long History of New Year Celebrations
What do Times Square, red envelopes, and 12 grapes have in common?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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New Year celebration in Times Square
Fireworks, confetti, and a cheering crowd greeting the new year in Times Square,...
Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Assyrians in Iraq observe Akitu
Dressed in traditional clothing, Assyrians march during the Akitu new year celebration...
© Safin Hamid—AFP/Getty Images
Nowruz haft-sīn spread
A woman preparing for Nowruz (Persian New Year) by setting out haft-sīn...
© Morteza Nikoubazl—NurPhoto/Getty Images
Ugadi pachadi
A spread of ugadi pachadi for the New Year festival of Ugadi. Chopped-up...
© ArtofKosi/Dreamstime.com
Rosh Hashanah in Ukraine
A Jewish man blowing a shofar during Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Ukraine, September 21,...
© Amateur007/Shutterstock.com
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