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Champagne – 6 Fabulous Champagne Drink Recipes for New Year’s
By Leslie BlumensteinNew Year's Eve. A time for celebration, good food and fine drink. What goes better with celebration than champagne? Here are 6 fabulous champagne drink recipes for your New Year's Eve celebration. Champagne Cocktail Chilled Champagne 1 piece Sugar lump 2 dashes Bitters 1 twist of Lemon peel Mixing instructions: Place lump of sugar and bitters in a chilled champagne flute. Fill with chilled champagne. Add the twist of lemon peel and serve. Champagne Martini 2 parts Champagne 1 part Cointreau Mixing instructions: Mix and serve. Champagne Mango 1/2 part Champagne 1/2 part Mango juice 1 Mango cubed Ice cubes Mixing instructions: Mix Champagne and Mango juice together, add cubed Mango and ice. A Goodnight Kiss 4 oz Champagne 1 splash Campari 1 cube Sugar 1 drop Angostura bitters Mixing instructions: Put one drop of Angostura Bitter on sugar cube and drop in flute. ...
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Reasons to Celebrate
- November 26, Thanksgiving
- November 27, Eid-al-Adha
- December 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
- December 18, Islamic New Year (Al-Hijra / Muharram)
- December 21, Winter Solstice
- December 12-19, Hanukkah
- December 24, Christmas Eve
- December 25, Christmas Day
- December 26-January 1, Kwanzaa
- December 26, Boxing Day
- December 31, New Year's Eve
New Year's Fun Facts
- January is named for the Roman god, Janus (or Ianus). Janus was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings.
- The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
- The first Ball Lowering celebration atop One Times Square was held on December 31, 1907 and is now a worldwide symbol of the turn of the New Year.
- The Ball Lowering is seen via satellite by more than one billion people each year.
- The original New Year's Eve Ball weighed 700 pounds and was 5 feet in diameter. It was made of iron and wood and was decorated with 100 25-watt light bulbs.
- The most commonly sung song for English-speakers on New Year's eve is "Auld Lang Syne". It is an old Scottish song that was first published by the poet Robert Burns in 1796.
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