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The Mysterious Origins of the New Years Eve Kiss
2025-03-09 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Time is running out to figure out where youll be at the moment the new year begins and whom youll be with. According to some superstitions, German and English folklore gets credit for popularizing the idea that whom youre with on New Years Eve will predict how the new year will go. And these days, theres a good chance that if youre with anyone at all, youll plan to give or receive a kiss at the stroke of midnight.The exact origins of that customs popularity in the United States arent clear, but, like that superstition, it likely also has German origins. German immigrants New Years Eve parties in the mid-19th century would have helped spread the idea of ringing in the year with a kiss, says to Alexis McCrossen, an expert on the holiday and author of Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life.She points out that one of the earliest recorded references to smooching at midnight on New Years Eve is in a Jan. 3, 1863, New York Tim...
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I've Used Self Tanner Since High School, I Swear By These 9 for a Natural, Never Orange, Glow
2025-03-09 03:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
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Pope Francis is in stable condition but risk of crisis remains, Vatican sources say | CNN
2025-03-09 03:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
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